Injections aren't scratches and heat isn't sticky

[WorldCupWillie]

Going for an injection and they always say "it's just a scratch" - I've never had an injection that's scratched yet. It's a prick. Are they too scared of the word?

Saying it's "sticky" referring to heat. It's never been sticky. Stuffy, sweaty, muggy, humid but sticky???

It certainly makes me feel sticky.

Agree with scratches - is it because "it feels like a scratch" ?

Sticky disagree - I think its how you feel when its hot and muggy and you just kind of ew sticky

It scratches the skin as it pierces. And being sweaty definitely makes me feel sticky. Clothing sticks to me. I stick to furniture.

This heat is definitely making me sticky. I think that's what people are referring too.

Agree with you on injections not being scratches though.

I mean they don’t always say “it's just a scratch” when I’ve been they usually something like “you’ll feel a small scratch” which is exactly what I feel.

And the heat definitely makes me sticky.

'Scratch bach' were i am in north Wales or 'little prick' if we're trying to be funny.

My hands get horribly sticky in the heat.

I think that saying scratch has come about in part because it sounds less invasive than 'prick', and it frightens people who are afraid of injections less. (I experience injections as more like a pinch sensation -- that's what I used to say to DS when he was having them.)

Apparently there were some issues with using the word prick. The nurse I asked about it and I were giggling so much we had to 'take a moment' before she could jab me.

Actually I was actively discouraged from saying it felt like anything when I was doing vaccination training over the last 6 years. What the patient feels is on a vast spectrum from nothing to 'chopping my arm off would be less painful'!

And yes, I feel sticky in the heat.

When I trained as a nurse, we were taught to warn 'sharp scratch'.
Fuck knows why, nothing like a sharp scratch

Ibalso.wonder why.they say "well.done" to me even all I have done is sat there and had a needle pushed into me. I did nothing.

Because you haven’t screamed like a banshee, fainted, thrown up, run out of the room, swung out in a panic and whacked them in the nose, or any of the other myriad awkward things some people do when faced with an injection or having blood drawn?

Yes they always say that now, and it annoys me because it's nothing like a scratch to me, it's a definite jabbing pricking sensation. A scratch to me is a much milder sensation on the skin surface.

When I was younger they used to say "just a little prick" and I'm guessing people got too smutty about that.

Do they really? Grown adults?

I was at my GP a few weeks back when a man in his 30s passed out giving a blood sample in the practice nurse’s room, fell heavily off the chair, and crashed through the doorway into the corridor, knocking himself out on the door jamb. Apparently the week before someone had run away from a travel inoculation, just got up and legged it through the car park.

Wow…

Yeah, the old joke of the doctor saying ‘just a little prick with a needle’ and the patient saying ‘yes I can see you are’. Which is no reason for a female nurse to avoid the phrase.

Yes, I do

It depends on the injection though, surely? Most vaccinations do feel like a sharp scratch to me, but one of the pregnancy ones, I think pertussis, was a lot more painful which the administrator did warn me about.

Local anaesthetic feels completely different to a blood test, the blood thinners I had to inject myself with really stung, and insulin injections felt more like a pinch with pressure.

I haven't really thought about it before, but I am clearly a 'standard patient' because 'sharp scratch' has been a good description whenever it's been said to me.

And sticky absolutely is a type of heat - the fact that the word humid exists doesn't negate all its synonyms.

Depending which needle they use + how good they are at drawing blood, it can feel like a small scratch. Others can feel like their literally stabbing your bone 😅

I have very small, fragile veins and up until recently, any blood test really hurt and always left a big bruise. I had a new nurse recently ( I have frequent blood tests ) who took my blood with a butterfly needle and it was painless aside from, a small scratch feeling. I had another blood test a few days ago and asked her to use a butterfly needle and that again was a pain-free process

@OldJohn

I've spent the last 6 months having weekly blood tests and numerous scans requiring canulas.
For an MRi scan I had, it took them 40 minutes and 7 attempts to get a canula in. I nearly passed out. The following week one nurse had 3 goes and then went to find a children's nurse to do it. Sometimes the needle goes in first time but they can't draw blood out, sometimes they can't stop it bleeding.
Its great if you don't have any issues but for some of us it can be an ordeal

Injections feel like a scratch to me and heat makes me feel sticky. 🤷

I’ve never been told injections are a sharp scratch, just that they feel like one. And that’s accurate to me.

A grown adult not knowing about, or thinking that adults cant have uncontrollable, extreme irrational phobias, biological reactions such as syncope, and thinks like that, is just as much of a wow.