I'm sure I'll get a brutal roasting here but anyway, I'm braving it.
There is not a single chance anyone would be able to get near me with a throat swab. I'd need sedating into a stupor, a GA maybe.
I grew up in a country that routinely swabs sore throats. I had a lot of sore throats. Memories of being held down kicking and screaming by doctors and nurses.
My gag reflex is awful, I can't even cope with the wooden stick doctors use in your mouth to help when you say 'ahhhh' so they can look in. I learned quick to get my tongue right down to avoid that one.
I'm also VERY emetophobic so even without the childhood swab trauma I'd be shitting myself about anything that could make me gag.
I realise this all sounds ridiculous, and it is I suppose, but phobias aren't rational, and here we are. I'm far more terrified of a test than I am actually getting the virus.
Shove a swab in any other orifice- I don't care. Take my blood, take a biopsy, do anything you like just don't try and put things in my mouth 😫🙈
So yeah, can you insist on just having the nasal thing? I work in a secondary school, it's only a matter of time before I end up needing to be tested, and I'm losing sleep over it.
(I'm pretty sure I read on here that the nasal swab can make you gag too- if you are about to leap on here to point that out, please don't! Ignorance is bliss and right now I feel like I could absolutely cope with a nasal swab).
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Can you refuse throat swab and have extra nasal swabbing instead?
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NeuroticKindofNormal · 10/09/2020 20:40
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