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What are you like with needles with as blood tests? Being diabetic I'm meant to have blood tests frequently and actually have been told every so often that I should be on insulin but I've got a major needle phobia. I'm getting a psychologist for it though so hopefully I figure out what causes it.
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I was very scared of needles, but then at 11 I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and was faced with either face my fear of needles and live or give in to it and die a slow, painful death. I picked life at the time. Needles haven't been quite so scary since.
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PGen98 wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:22 am I was very scared of needles, but then at 11 I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and was faced with either face my fear of needles and live or give in to it and die a slow, painful death. I picked life at the time. Needles haven't been quite so scary since.
I'm glad that you have been able to manage your diabetes. :)

I'm not a fan of needles, but I can deal with it.
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I'm bad with needles. I'm better with them than when I was younger, but that's only if someone else is in control of the needle (for example, when I got my blood drawn yesterday). If I had to do a self injection... Not sure I could handle it.
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I'm not a fan. They don't bother me quite as much as they used to. Kinda used to them these days. Between many, many blood tests (literally every doctor I see orders them. I NEED MY BLOOD PEOPLE!), and I've had a bunch of iron infusions.
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Having to have blood tests is the worst. X_x
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They don't bother me too much. I just refuse to look at em take the blood. XD
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I find the needle easier when having a blood test than when I need to get an IV put in at the hospital. :O

Then those big long needles doctors and dentists use to numb areas of the body... Worse than a Horror movie!
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IV's themselves don't bother me a ton. But like a shot of something like with a syringe always did bug me.
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I've never had an IV. It doesn't seem like it would be very pleasant.
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