I didn’t know this fear was large enough to have a following here. I’ve been afraid every since a bad surgery experience when I was little. A doctor stabbed (ok .. gently prodded) my finger with the tube of an IV after I woke up. In my anesthitized state, I thought I was getting stabbed with a needle. The more I screamed, to more he poked “trying” to comfort me. I was only 12! But since then, I shake and well up with tears and hyperventilate every time a needle is near me. A few weeks ago at the doctors was the first time I didn’t start crying in years (I’m 22 now). I did hold my breath and nearly pass out from holding it so long..but it’s a start.