Dd is 15 and has venephobia (fear of veins and having veins touched) and carpophobia (fear of wrists being touched).
She has been away from school a fair amount since term started and really doesn’t want to miss anymore school. She has a poorly feeling most days, has gone off her food, is lethargic all the time, threw up today and generally feels unwell. She has been off probably about 4 or 5 days since they went back after summer.
So far, following the nurse practitioner saying she needs a list of things checking by bloods tests, we have tried twice to take blood, but failed.
The first time, at the hospital And she screamed the place down and today, at the surgery with the phlebotomist and lovely nurse and she went floppy and almost fainted. She then had a panic attack and her body shook violently like she was in shoc and she went freezing cold. They said they wouldn’t be able to get blood from her hand (only place she felt ok having it taken from) as her veins weren’t up enough.
She managed to tolerate the cuff over her sleeve for a few seconds which impressed me but then went faint.
The nurses couldn’t suggest anywhere where she could have entenox administered or a sedative etc. We don’t really want to spend lots of time having hypnotherapy etc as she really needs the bloods doing soon. It’s already been two weeks since she went to see nurse practitioner.
Does anybody know any way through NHS or privately somehow she could have them taken using an effective method?