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I've got to go later for my travelling jabs, and must admit I'm feeling queasy about the whole thing, I'm not usually that squeamish but the prospect of being treated as a human pin cushion is filling me with the fear.

Are you fine with them or am I being perfectly rational?

― chris, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I had mine done for Sri Lanka last year the actual injections were fine (but I've never had a problem with them) but the pain afterwards was NOT. I had one in each arm and by jove it hurt for about 3 days - a horrible dull ache that really hurt when I tried to lift my arms & meant I had to be very careful and not barge into people. Plus the nurse assumed I was right handed and did the worst one in my left arm NO you silly woman you could've asked first.

But hey it's better than getting typhoid.

― Emma, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

maybe I'll just go to Bognor or something

― chris, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't be such a wuss.

― Emma, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I must admit I'm feeling particularly wussy today.

― chris, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't be a wuss, you'll be fine.

― Anna, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did anyone else have horror stories at school relating to jabs? Some kid moved and the needle scratched his arm for a metre or something. Anyway, I'm reviving that today. Chris, did you hear about the man who had the Japanese Encephalitis jab and then couldn't move his arm ever again? It was in the paper.

― Jonnie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My childhood best mate was TERRIFIED of injections and when she had to have that BCG testing thing where they stick about 6 needles in your arm at once they couldn't find her vein and she ended up with about 92 marks on her arm. She is now a doctor and no doubt wreaking her vengeance on the medical profession from within (but is an obstetrician so mainly epidurals etc.)

― Emma, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Girl at our school passed out just before being given a rubella jab and concussed herself on the floor.

― Anna, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jabs - they really aren't frightening in anyway at all. Unless they use a horse syringe. And even then if they draw a smiley face on the syringe it can be quite jolly.

My Lanka jabs didn't hurt.

― Pete, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmm. That is not what you said at the time I seem to recall. Of course as I said before the jabs themselves do not hurt it is afterwards that the pain kicks in.

― Emma, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do not fear, Christopher. I had my Meningitis vaccination last week (first jab in 8 years or so) and it was fine, only a very slight ache afterwards. I mean, it's just a little prick. Just like me! And you like me, eh, eh, doncha, doncha?

― Ally C, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't abide needles, but I have a somewhat warped attitude to them. I avoid flu jabs every year when they come round, and the thought of having torpical diseases stuffed in my arm makes me feel ill just thinking about it. BUT, for some reason*, I am happy to give blood, which is a considerably larger needle (and yes, it does hurt a bit, whatever people say).

*my reading if it is that in my view. the pain and sacrifice (diddums - okay, hardly massive, but not bad for someone who hates needles) involved in giving blood make a simple altruistic gesture that much more worthy in my skewed vision. Does that make sense?

― Mark C, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why would you want a flu jab? They are really aimed at people who might actually die from flu / be affected by it severely e.g. old folk. Besides there are so many flu strains going round that the jab cannot keep up so you are not protected from all the new ones that pop up each year. (This was the medical advice I received from childhood-friend-turned-doctor - perhaps she is getting back at the injection industry by dissuading me from supporting it, hmmm.)

― Emma, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three shots for bee allergies every six weeks for my entire childhood = no fear of needles, but sharply increased fear of bees. and which do you suppose i encountered in the wild..?? fuckers.

― Tracer hand, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you can get shots for bee allergies? fuck...

over here, it's a wait and see thing - you get stung, then you call for help.

― Queen G, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had a terrible incident in sixth grade where I had a near screaming fit over a blood test. GRR. God knows what mood I was in. I have since learned to relax and look the other direction.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had a terrible incident in sixth grade where I had a near screaming fit over a blood test.

Was this because they wouldn't let you lick the slide afterwards, ya big GOTH?

― Dan Perry, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Entirely possible. But at the time I was young and sweetly uninformed of such things.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned Raggett: instinctively GOTH since 1983.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The idea of it turns my stomach, but when it actually happens it's fine. I have a gory curiosity which makes me watch it happen too. But, prior, I have been known to spend ages going 'ohh.ohh' and curling up into a tiny unviolatable ball. Then getting on with it.

― alix, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned Raggett: instinctively GOTH since 1983.

Very likely. Puberty brought out the latent instincts (that and getting a collection of Edward Gorey's work).

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uli Roth was better

― dave q, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm a pathetic coward when it comes to injections, though I just about cope (i.e. I manage not to run away).

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't hardly flinch, in fact I think I did rather well, the lovely Nigerian nurse calmed me down very well, but like, fucking ouch, my arm is now throbbing like a bastard and I got in such a grouchy mood that I spent loads of money on clothes I didn't really need, I'm just glad that every pair of trainers I spotted were out in size 11s.

― chris, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Am fine with giving blood as the needle penetration is not deep and my veins are very visible and easy to hit (due to extreme paleness). HOWEVAH, I live in deathly paranoid fear of intra-muscular shots which must be shoved deeply into muscle fibers and also of dental shots jabbed into my desperately resisting gums.

Last time I was due for a tetanus shot I had hysterics and begged to be let off, even going so far as promising to be extra careful for the rest of my life to avoid rusty nails. I think my mother had to hold my hand. I was 18 yrs old.

― Pyth, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't drink booze for twenty four hours!! and I wanted to get stucjk into my fine wines!!

― chris, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, I agree entirely about the flu jab thing. It's just that when it was offered at work, so many of my colleagues blithely went up for it and several berated me for my irresposibility. I mean, I wasn't the one forsking my sickie excuse...

I hate the mouth injection thing too. A couple of years ago I had seven dental appointments in the space of six months, each involving multiple injections. The fact that you can feel it go in, then CONTINUE sinking into your jaw was what made me squeal*. That, and finding out when the anaesthetic's warn off, you've bitten your tongue/lips to buggery.

*oh yeah, and the fact that having your teeth drilled STILL HURTS. I mean, wtf?

― Mark C, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The dentist is horrible. Or more specifically my old Orthodontist, back in the day when I was bracefaced used to have bad breath EVERY DAY. He'd be like "sooooooooooooooooooo" *long breath into my face* onions and garlic and coffee and whatever else. Jesus christ, a dentist with bad breath is like a masseur who's set his hands on fire or something. fundamental error ahoy.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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