Do you hate needles.?

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Oh, yes, I have vagal nerve syncope - the vagal nerve is a large nerve running from your head across your neck and down your body. Whenever a needle is stuck in me, my blood pressure bottoms out and I faint due to some reflex reaction that I can't control with my vagal nerve - it sucks!

I once had a tine test at a local health department (so that I could teach) and I came out to the desk and fainted from that little tiny needle - the kids waiting for vaccines were freaking out - "Mommy, don't make me go back there and get what that lady got!"

Recently, I attended a Silent Auction - one of the prizes was an Acupuncture Session - my husband said, "Now, there is the worst present anyone could ever give you!" LOL!! That would be sheer torture!

Can you imagine me getting a tattoo?! "Oh, want to see my tattoo - yes, it's that little dot right there on my ankle!" (That's all they could do before I fainted - just kidding - I won't even try to do that!)

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miserysmycompany	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:04AM I love needles. Rated: +1Vote for this!
SunshineEddy	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:06AM Not really... I always watch when I get stuck, whether it's a tattoo or drawing blood... when I started watching, it didn't really hurt at all anymore so they don't bother me at all... except in movies when there is a needle about to be put in somebody's eye... or if they wanted to put one in my eye... eeeeeee! why are all the questions tonight making me cringe and gag? shaka Rated: +1Vote for this!
Cosreal	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:06AM Yes! I am not afraid of them.. But every time I acknowledge a needle, I think of my favorite cousin... and how he died. Rated: +1Vote for this!
Frankenface	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:06AM No, they really do not bother me, and that is a good thing. I've had them jabbed in my right breast at least three times in the last month for aspirations. Next, I get surgery with anesthesia through an IV in two weeks. Although I've done plenty of drugs back in the day, I am proud of the fact that I've never done any drug requiring the use of needles. It somehow seems skanky to me, not to mention frightening. I guess for me it seems like in order to get to that level, nothing is enough any more, and the step after that is into the grave. Rated: +1Vote for this!
Verno	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:07AM Yes Rated: +1Vote for this!
stillgrieving	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:08AM No, I have 4 a day as I am an insulin dependent diabetic and have been since I was 12. Rated: +1Vote for this!
Navybrat	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:10AM Yes They suck! Rated: +1Vote for this!
clumsy57	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:16AM When I was a kid I loved needles then that day I got really sick I dehydrated and got taken to the hospital where I was given an IV. Don't ever want that to happen again plus the six tubes of blood taken from me. No way. I do have a pen that looks like a needle. Rated: +1Vote for this!
trixiegirl	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:18AM Passionately! Rated: +1Vote for this!
koukla7861	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:22AM I don't mind them, I have had many piercings and I don't mind shots. I hate having to hold on to a needle though because then you become nervous and start overthinking pricking yourself which you imagine to be worse then sticking a needle in. Rated: +1Vote for this!
coloco	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:36AM No, they are really handy devices. I am just not a fan of pulling them from my body. Rated: +1Vote for this!
IdleTraveller	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 12:40AM No not hate; something much stronger than that. so it really sucked when I had to go and get my cervical cancer vaccination shots; each one hurt more than the last, and the first was much more painful than a normal shot Rated: +1Vote for this!
secretskwurl	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 2:31AM I used to, but I got over it. Rated: +1Vote for this!
porkchopsandwich	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 3:38AM Yes. I hate them. Rated: +1Vote for this!
Haphazard	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 4:50AM YES! Rated: +1Vote for this!
SummerWind18	Posted Sep 12th, 2009 at 7:15PM oh god, mortally afraid of them! Rated: +1Vote for this!

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