Went to give blood this morning - have done it once before on my right arm (tried once on the left and they had to abandon it because I started to bruise). The nurse couldn't get the needle in the vein and said the best thing to do would be to come back in a couple of years...apparently it's quite common in young girls to, I don't know, become veinier (?!) over time. Has anyone else experienced this?
i dunno really my hands are pretty veiny im a guy incidently..but whn im stressed you can see loads of veins in my hands when im relaxed almost nothing weird...
Come back in a couple of years? Was this nurse dressed in a uniform bought from Ann Summers?!
Lol, no, she just said that I shouldn't keep putting myself through it - 3 times I've been and only one successful donation and it was flipping painful today, stabbing round for a vein! Just have to go away and vein up a bit!
Good point, I don't know what would would happen if I needed a blood test...
The same happened to me, I went to give blood in the summer and about four people tried in both arms and not one of them could get the needle in. They told me to come back another time. ah well!
I never was especially vascular. Suffice it to say, my own nurse having not been vested with quite the same faculties of perception, there's likely some poor sod whose heart will right now be working double-time to circulate four or five litres of bone-marrow.
i went the other week for a blood test and they tried 10 times!!!! to find blood it took 4 nurses :O i ended up fainting! and huge bruises on my arms so i have the same problem it is not a nice experience wen they cant find the vains haha!
I've never given blood before but they've found it tricky a coupla times when I was having blood tests to find a vein... they had to switch arms and were getting annoyed because none were visibly coming up... on the plus side, it's be bloody hard for you to inject heroin... not that you would...!
I used to have a lot of problems with vein-finding when I went for blood tests - they'd often try both arms and sometimes end up in the hand, but it hasn't been as much of a problem recently; I've given blood 4 times now and it was fine except for some rather large and impressive bruises. There must be good veins in my right arm; I used to use my left but since I got bad tendinitis I've refused to use the left arm for any blood-taking (I generally have no problem with needles but since my left elbow is painful anyway the idea of someone sticking a needle in it is fairly offputting ). But they manage fine with just the right, and it has got easier lately so might be worth trying again after a bit - sympathy for the lack of success though, is horrible when it goes wrong!