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 can’t believe some people don’t like Jaffa cakes.

HTH.

my daughter has to have loads. she has to have gas and air in order for them to put one in.

Here, have a slice of cake.

My then 5 week old DS would disagree with you OP, 4 HCPs tried to get one into his hand for about 15 minutes and you could hear the screaming for miles, so they put it in his foot. Do you find that surprising?

I once had one put in too near my wrist bone and I had to hold my hand straight for hours because it hurt every time I moved.

Of my two birth experiences having a cannula put in very badly by a student nurse was the most painful part. Hand was so bruised and sore I struggled to lift my newborn. Maybe you've just been very lucky. As with many things in life luck is involved.

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Very strange post

@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?

And by the way I find them very painful and uncomfortable.

That's my hand 2 days after one
Still so swollen

They had to give me morphine for my hand it was so bad from a burst vein

I had a procedure a few weeks ago that took six attempts

I was retching in pain in the end

Other pic of normal hand

I can’t believe some people don’t like Jaffa cakes.

Some people don't like jaffa cakes?

@BeingATwatItsABingThing I had a junior doctor in her first day of rotation on maternity doing or at least trying to do mine. She was so apologetic but there was no one else to do it. 11 years ago if that makes a difference.

I have found some painful and then an anaesthetist saw the size of me and said she would get a child's one and that was painless. Since then at the mention of cannula I always ask that they use a child size one and there has been no pain. I can only assume that the painful ones were too big.

Did I miss the medal ceremony, was it on an earlier page?

averylongtimeago: And your point is?

A very sharp one!

@FatCatThinCat

I can’t believe some people don’t like Jaffa cakes.

Some people don't like jaffa cakes?

ive never had one :(

Hahaha, I used to think this as I'd had loads for anaesthetics and IV drugs etc. Then when I was in labour I had a massive one shoved in at the top of wrist/base of thumb. It was so horrendous that I still get a cold sweat just thinking about it.

My veins collapse at the mere thought of a needle. After one hospital admission I came out with 17 points where they'd either managed to place a cannula or had attempted to. Flushing them was agony. When I was rushed in to theatre they couldn't flush it and had to put me to sleep with gas, because I couldn't face another needle. Yes I am aware the cannula itself isn't a needle.

Blood taking is just as bad after three attempts a few months ago, with little yield . I had to return the following week it took two attempts to get it. So yes it fucking hurts and does nothing to improve my phobia of needles.

ive never had one sad

I'm pretty sure that's a breach of your basic human rights. You need to log that with the police!

[quote AriettyHomily]@BeingATwatItsABingThing I had a junior doctor in her first day of rotation on maternity doing or at least trying to do mine. She was so apologetic but there was no one else to do it. 11 years ago if that makes a difference.[/quote]
That must have been so stressful for her.

Depends on how it is done. I’ve had dreadful cannulas, one particularly memorable one was a midwife was asked to do it 4 hours before she left, she forgot so rammed it in several times before clocking off. That hurt. It had to be removed and resited

Oh and to top it off the cannula required for the epidural in my 2nd pregnancy took them 10 minutes to find a ripe vein. If you understood these issue you might find you understand they do hurt/are uncomfortable

It depends, my veins are tiny and the docs often use child size needles, so a stonking great cannula hurts. On the other hand, I walked home on a broken ankle thinking I had just sprained it and was feeling it more because I was tired. To be fair, I’m hyper mobile and literally twisted it on beach pebbles so didn’t expect it to break. Anyway, my pain thresholds quite good based on that, but yeah a cannula does hurt, especially when positioned in certain places. It’s also just a bizarre feeling that creeps me out far more than straight forward pain. Also, if you saw the way a nurse put in my ds as a 6 month old baby, you’d understand why he screamed.

Lucky for you.

I have scars on both hands from where I've had difficulty with cannulas. I'm so difficult to cannulate that an anaesthetist offered to put a central line in instead My right hand is permanently swollen after difficulty with a cannula 5 years ago. It still causes me discomfort sometimes now. Having said that I'm used to it and can mostly tolerate it when it takes several attempts to site one.

Jaffa cakes are of the devil though