to really hate blood tests?

[iwanttolearn]

I get called a big baby because I hate anyone coming near me with needles. I had a blood test ealier in the week and fainted. I drank 2 glasses of chocolate milk and still felt really weak for the rest of the day and later in the evening I had a fever. I spent the next day in bed. I've eaten soups with lots of beef in them, etc. I don't know if the fever came because I was so worried about the blood test... All in all, not a pleasant experience.

I hate blod tests

YANBU I am always reduced to tears after a blood test. Hate them hate them hate them. I get very wound up and upset, every time. DH thinks I'm mad and a total wuss.

But then again I had a long string of hospitalisations / illnesses in my childhood and early adulthood so I think it's trauma-induced.

I should not have opened this thread 3 hours before going for a blood test!

My mum hates blood tests she hates even seeing blood, poor thing volunteered to come with me to have a transfusion (I had to have them nearly every week while pg and I had to be accompanied after) I told her she didn't have to but she said she wanted too she took one step in the room saw about 6 people all having transfusions and feinted. I am grateful she tried though .

They don't bother me at all though I usually let students try and it is just as well they don't as I have to have blood checked regularly.

I take blood as part of my job- from the whole range of humanity- tiny little prem babies right trhrough to elderly frail people...

I take a lot of care with people who don't like needles, and take lots of time to soothe/ calm/ local anaesthetic. I am lucky and have no particular issues with having blood tests myself, so i'm aware this may cloud my judgement a bit....

BUT i think it is really really REALLY important to tryt o put the hysteria to one side. My particular bug- bear is parents who pass on their nerves to their children, particularly when it is the child that needs the injection/ bllod test/ cannula. It doesn't help the cgild ONE LITTLE BIT, and teaches them that it's a horrendous experience, not just a quick, horrid little thing that just needs to get done and out of the way. Being relaxed helps it get done quicker and more comfortably and then it'll be a better memory to prepare you for next time.

GOOD LUCK WITH THE TESTS- YOU'LL BE FINE!!

Ps- there's no way a blood test would give you a fever, so you were probably brewing something anyway, which would have made you more likely to react badly to having the tests IYSWIM.

I hate blood tests, but unfortunately for large amounts of my life have had to get at least one at least once a month. I ALWAYS tell the person doing it that I don't like them, and I don't look.

it's like telling them makes me feel like it's more OK when I am more likely to react less well to it, which relaxes me, and in turn makes any reaction to it less likely!

Lx