To be surprised people find cannulas painful

[User4647]

I’ve had Loads and they had one be painful. I’m surprised that most other people find them painful.

I don't find eyebrow plucking painful. Or the 2 stubborn hairs on my nipple. And I can touch my eyeballs without flinching. Your point is?

Sometimes they're fine and sometimes they are agony.

I have the kind of veins that make medical staff squeal with joy when they come at me with a needle and see them. I had a canula fitted when DD2 was born that they put in such a spot that the doctor commented that "blimey you have a really high pain threshold as that's in a really bad spot" (right on a very knobbly bit of hand where it bent). They don't hurt me much... other stuff really really does and my mental resilience is shit in comparison - it's a fucking stupid thing to be having an e-bragging contest about.

You would have to drag me kicking and screaming anywhere near a leg or eyebrow wax.

Well lucky you

Some people just can’t cope with pain, some people don’t have veins that allow them to go in first time and end up like pin Cushions after multiple painful attempts

Stop being nasty and goady

My DD had one when she was four...it was so painful for her . When she woke up from her op she was trying to pull it out. It was awful.

Good for you OP. Your Superior Human Award is in the post.

I had them put in the back of my hand and they were painful to insert; thankfully didn't take long.

I wouldnt say painful as such but I find them annoying and uncomfortable. I've had them in the crook of my arm and in the back of my hand and they just get knocked constantly which is uncomfortable. I also just dislike the sensation of having it there in my skin any length of time.

It all depends on what size, where it is, how big the vein is and what's going through it! I cannulate as part of my job and some just go ow and others it's like you've harpooned then, but just to clarify the needle doesn't stay in its removed through the actual cannula and a wee tube stays in.

Why are you surprised that everyones’s pain threshold is different.

Very weird post OP. You can't fathom that it is the case that people experience pain differently, as a result of a number of factors. Pain management is a specific branch of medicine that is very specialised. A person with separate health conditions, past physical trauma, nerve damage, what medication one uses (long term use of certain painkillers can actually make chronic pain and how we process pain worse in some cases) neurological conditions any conditions which affect the nervous, autonomic or musculoskeletal system (many of which are very common) affect how we receive pain messages and the end result. People unfortunate enough to have been in chronic pain in their lives can be very sensitive to it to the point simply touching them or hugging, will set off the messages.

If you're thinking it has anything to do with your own personal prowess or bravery you'd be wrong. It goes both ways, it is possible to have conditions where you feel very little pain generally even, which often leads to injury. Very interesting though.

Ooh. I don't find them painful. But pain is subjective.

I did once see a paramedics have one that drills into the bone. Now good god. He almost passed out! They are meant to be horrific. But then you're nearly dead when you have one of those anyway.

Yes. Most peoples alarm system to tell them something alien is being inserted into their body works as it should

I didn’t find blood tests hurt until towards the end of a highly medicalised pregnancy when all my vein had collapsed from having blood tests every day. The canula I had in my wrist for my c section was agony.

I’m actually gutted I’m not as good as you.

Here’s your medal, you massive cunt.

🥇

I have had 5 surgeries this year and always say the cannula going in is the worst bit. Especially when you are still bruised from the previous one:

I have a high pain threshold for other things just hate Cannulas.

how good the person is

high pain threshold^

No just no. And no

DS has sat through 30 vials of blood being taken. DD has had a missed broken bone and walked all day on a dislocated patella Because nobody thought she was in enough pain.

Both have had agonising canulas.

Erm, lucky you?

I don't mind them going in, but ive had a few now that have shifted and come out of the vein, so I swell up. So so painful!

I had about 6 during an induction to labour which took numerous attempts each to put in by doctors after midwives couldn’t do it. Appearently, I have weird veins....

I was covered in bruises along my arms and hands for weeks. It hurt intensely.

Weirdest Mumsnet brag ever OP.

I had many and they all bloody hurt.

Had one in my hand in labour. It was absolutely the worst part and I gave birth with just an hour of gas and air (and my mother kept using it so I didn't always have it when the contractions came). I have no problems having blood taken, giving blood (when they let me), or injections.

@User4647

I don’t mean it in a bad way I just feel it’s over so quickly that it doesn’t hurt me. I know it probably varies due to veins and how good the person is.

How “good” the person is?

I wish you and your cannulas a very happy life together. ❤️

@User4647

But what IS the point of your post? If everyone had the same veins and nerve endings as you, were relaxed about the procedure as you seem to be and had the same people doing them that you have had they would probably have the same opinion as you but... surprise, surprise, they don't...

Perhaps someone should start a new stealth boast thread about things that they don't mind and can't understand why others do.

I'll start: I'm surprised people can't handle mixing their drinks and having a skinful without suffering. I've never had a hangover...

Surely mine is better than yours?!

Depends on your veins. Mine are small and I have low blood pressure so they needed to use the veins in my hand/ wrist - medical professionals know this is more painful so you are usually offered paracetamol beforehand. Still hurts like a bitch though.

I've had loads of issues with them. One in the underside of my wrist left me with a hard tender lump under my skin for ages - everytime I moved my wrist it hurt. Had to go to GP about it as it was so painful for weeks. Apparently this can happen if they don't flush the cannula through properly.

Next time I needed one I asked for it to go in near my elbow. That time I had a itchy / painful skin reaction. Not one bloody nurse (post labour) listened to me and I was left with the damn thing in for 3 days despite only needing IV antibiotics for 1 day and asking repeatedly for someone to look at it / take it out. When they finally looked I had bright red, raised, weeping skin so clear allergic reaction.

So OP what's your point?