imagine being scared of needles. Oooough the big scary pointy thing might provide me with Cures. Aaooough the sharpy pointy bit might extract my Humours for rigorous scientific testing. grow up
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Yeah, I mean… it sucks. Hard to think of something that has affected my health as much as my fear of needles. I could be dying right now for all I know.
yeah I'm a huge hypochondriac but also afraid of needles so I'm just constantly thinking I'm dying but far too afraid to go to a doctor about it, it's a pretty shitty way to live
I heard a little girl losing her mind over getting a shot the other day. I wanted to tell her, “Look, it's not going to hurt. It's just not. But it's okay to be scared of it. One of the most valuable skills you can ever learn is how to be scared, but to do it anyway.”
Needles are fine. A port in the chest gets tiresome after a while, because the needles keep going in the same place even after the scar tissue piles up.
I do not like needles. Not afraid; I just don’t like them. BUT…when someone says, “hey, we’re going to give you a poke so you don’t, you know, DIE,” guess what? I’m gonna let ‘em poke me with that needle.
As someone who volunteered at a vaccination centre years ago, and has a lot of experience with antivaxxers, I’m pretty confident it’s barely in the single digits. Antivaxxers believe that stuff because they get stuff out of believing in it (a sense of superiority, group identity etc).
Oh and FWIW, I met lots of people who had needle phobias who clearly hated that they felt that way, but still got vaccinated anyway. And I’m Mr “just put it in me, I’ll watch!” (the bottoming jokes are too easy, I know).
Trypanophobia is real and some of us have PTSD from needles. I had ALL as a kid and was getting 7 IVs a week during active chemo (no ports and bad veins). IM and Sub-Q don't get me, just IV/blood draws and man it's not fun.
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blink twice if you're in a dentist's chair
I am not a parent.
Oh it sucked
go limp!
so easy.
A tube!
The anti-vaxers can suck it and take their poke