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 Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:09 pm
I have a major phobia of spiders and anything dead. With spiders I tend to run away very very fast and kind of stuff myself into a very small space and scream and cry, then start feeling like theyre crawling on my skin and i smack at myself to try and get rid of the feeling. Its really quite terrable. As for dead things, if i see anything thats dead i have nightmares for months. I cant even go to the museum and look at mummys. It's pretty bad.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:43 am
I have kind of the same thing, probably not as bad as you do, but reading your story I almost started crying, and I have to do the little rocking chair movement thing...
I think my scary thing that made me this way was when I was about seven years old, and we were going to have shots at school. There were two nurses to do the whole thing, one to do the shot part, and one to "calm" the childen. What they did was this: The one nurse that did the shots hed my arm real tight, so I coulden't move it, and the other nurse put her hands on my head and forced it the other way. She held myhead real hard so I couldent move that either. And all the time they said it was nothing to wory about...
I have kind of decided to never ever have a shot or take blood samples again in my life, because it's just not worth it, but now... The latest years I've been starting to want childern real bad, and even though I'm not having any right now (since I'm only 17) it's probably one of the three things I think about themost. I feel almost as when I have my children, my life will be complete. (<-that sounds mch better when you think it)
And there would be no problem at all. But. That damn shot tingie... As soon as I start thinkiing about it I have to do this special thing wih my thumbs (holding them reeal tight to the rest of the hand), and after some time I'll start crying.
It feels really stupid when I have to leave the room when people are talking about those things...
I really think I COULD do it if I was pregnant, because "trading" that for a baby would be worth it, I think. I've never actually had my blood taken, I've only had shots, so that first one would be really though...
Well, I'll stop this now, or I could ramble all night...
It's great that you did it, and I hope that it'll go as well, or begtter, next time! heart
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:31 pm
I have a serious phobia of needles too...all I can say is get over it, cuz your gonna get poked over and over and over again...
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:38 pm
I'm so glad to hear that there are other people out there who hate needles as much as I do. When I was a kid and had to have a shot, my doctor would have to get several nurses to hold me down. And even a finger p***k was a big ordeal with me.
When I was pregnant and had to start having all the blood work done, I thought I would die. After the third or fourth time of me almost fainting, the nurse made a suggestion that made all the difference in the world. Butterflies. They are the tiny needles that they use on children. Because the needles are so much smaller, they don't hurt as much when they go in and they aren't so deep in the vein that you can feel them. It takes a little bit longer to draw the blood, but I can grin and bear that. Hell, I even volunteered for a medical research study a year or so back and had to have blood drawn every week! I still ball up my toes and grit my teeth when I have to have blood drawn, but overall, it's a much easier experience.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:18 pm
well for me its not the pain from having the blood drawn. its the auctuall action its self. but now i dont get all squrimy when i think if it. maybe it will be easier next time i go to get it taken.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:54 pm
Phobia's are never easy to over come. And getting stressed out because of a phobia, isnt good for a baby. I have phobia's as well, I used to have a severe phobia of dogs and balloons. Yes yes hardy har har.
Okay now that were done laughing at me (and me at myself) Its nothing to be ashamed of at all, and phobia's are not easy to overcome. But the good news is, there is doctors out there, who specifically help people to over come their phobia's. By talking you though it, and easing you into a situation, by showing photo's having them in the room, going through the procedure, and learning to breathe.
It may sound silly, but I suggest, you have your husband look up some pictures of clean needles, and people getting shots, or having blood drawn from their arm, a shot specifically of a needle in an arm by a doctor. Nothing gory, which is why your not looking up the pictures.
Then you need to sit down, and use items similar to a turniquet have your husband mother or someone you trust go through it, tying your arm while you sit in the chair, then using a bic pencil, yes one of those clicky pencils, have the pencil part out, and have them hold the clicky part down when the lead is out long like a needle, and press on your arm, first just pressing then with you watching.
It looks like the pencil is going into your arm, and there is the discreet pressure on your arm, which simulates, a needle.
This may help desencitize you to the needles a little, so when you go in next, you can hold the conversation up with someone you trust and prevent some of the stress.
Hope this helps.
Gentle.
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:20 am
I have a needle phobia as well. To the point where I make myself vomit just thinking about them sticking me. Reading your post was making me gag a little and I can't brush the vein where the normally p***k you without getting a little ill. I went to a shrink for it and he taught me some ways to deal with it. I thought I was over it and then had to get a blood draw. I too had to be medicated for that sweatdrop
We did find out that the needle the doctors had been using was too big. They need to use a child sized needle on me or it hurts like hell. I also can't have too much warning or I work myself up and vomit on someone's show and then sink in to a little pile of tears. By learning how to breathe and looking at pictures of needles, handling sterile needles and what not, I have been able to not vomit at the thought and can now brush that spot on my arm without feeling bile rise in my throat. My shrink told me that unfortunately it's a phobia you only get over through exposure. The last time I had to deal with needles was when I had a toe nail removed and they poked me 7 or 8 times in the toe to numb it. That hurt like hell and they gave me valium before hand to help calm me down (didn't work though lol) plus pulled DH from work to help calm me down (he's military). Good luck with your needle phobia. I highly recommend seeing a shrink for it. Although it doesn't sound like it, I have made progress in the last 2 years with dealing with it. It's so easy to say get over it, but it's so much harder when you're actually faced with the needle going in to your skin.
Word of advice, let someone else take your kid for their shots until you can be calm with it. It's a phobia you can pass to your kid and lord knows you don't want that. DH always takes our boys or my MIL did when DH was gone because I can't help crying and freaking out a little which only freaks them out more.
Oh and with IVs. I had them tape mine up so I couldn't see it. Just looking at it in my hand was freaking me out and so they just took some gauze and wrapped it so I couldn't see it anymore, but it was still there. They also put a big thing in my chart saying I had a needle phobia and to deal gently with me lest I vomit on their nice clean combat boots wink The only needle I didn't mind is the epidural. I was in so much pain at that point and I couldn't see it. I think (for me anyway) knowing what they're going to do and waiting for them to do it and watching them prep me is the worst. So since I couldn't see it, I didn't work myself up
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:42 pm
Reading what you wrote about the epidural made me smile. I was more terrified of that than labor itself. When I finally went into labor, and felt that pain, I was begging for them to stick me. It was the first time in my life I've ever wanted a needle in me. ^_^
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:11 pm
I don't even remember feeling pain from the epidural needle. I'd waited two hours from the time I asked for the damn anesthesiologist decided to wander in and give it to me. I'd gone through every breathing technique I knew AND a half shot of stadol.
All I remember about the epidural is being so pissed at the anesthesiologist when he started giving me a ******** lecture about my size and how "this may take a bit" and then it was like A SINGLE SECOND and then I had to find some way to scooch my a** back down in the bed with my legs already going numb.
That and the shakes, I got the shakes from the epidural. But I don't remember a SINGLE p***k at all.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:57 pm
I have an extreme phobia of needles. Something like yours, only not to that extreme... I never had a traumatic experience, so mine is totally unfounded. sweatdrop I bit my mom once getting a shot... I didn't mean to, but I had my face in her stomach and when the doctor poked me, I bit convulsively and happened to catch her tummy in my mouth.
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:51 pm
For me, it's shots and lizards. Shots used to just make me pass out (which made dental work dangerous), but when we found out that not only was I Rh- and my baby Rh+, but he was 2vc, and I had high cholesterol, and I was borderline gestational diabetic. They were literally drawing vials of blood every other week for my entire pregnancy. By my 9th month, I could walk in and voluntarily sit down and let someone draw blood, but only if their name was Jill. I don't know why it was that way, but I just *knew* if her name was Jill, it would be OK. Maybe something like that might help you?
Also, I was originally adamant about no shots during labor. And then the labor from hell happened. The first night I went in, they sent me home, and they said they'd give me painkillers so I could sleep. They offered me morphine or percocet. I took the percocet. The next night I went in, the nurse didn't give me a choice, and since I was already in the nursing gown and on my side (for the monitors) she just jabbed me. Holy crap I nearly kicked her down.
But oooooh, did that morphine feel nice. So I took the morphine the rest of the week before my baby finally decided to come out.
And I was also adamant against epidurals and IVs because the thought of a needle being inside me freaks me out - but I had to end up having Pitocin anyhow, so I HAD to have an IV, and at that point I was in so much pain that I was ready for the epidural, but I was shaking and drooking when the anasthesiologist came in to do it. When he stuck me the first time, he tapped a nerve, and my body flinched and I arced backwards. Not cool, and the needle bent. He also swore. That kind of made me even more nervous, but I also felt bad because it was like I ruined his perfect record, or something. But he got the second needle in so fast I didn't even notice it.
All I can say is the ONLY reason I could make myself go through all that was my beautiful baby. And he was worth EVERY single shot, even the horse needles in my butt every 6 weeks.
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:56 pm
I actually tried to give blood today. I'm trying so hard to get over this fear because I really want to get a tattoo. I got thru the exam and the finger poke just fine, but they found that I had a fever, so I couldn't donate. On one hand, I was relieved because I had watched them prep a guy and tell him that it takes over a half an hour to take the blood. But on the other, I was really upset because I spent half the day building up the courage to go. I guess at least I can say I tried.
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:22 pm
If it makes you feel better, I got a tattoo when I was 18, and it was absolutely nothing like a shot. I just made sure that he didn't ever show me the tool, and I was fine. But my tat was also on my back, so it was easier not to look.
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