get over my fear of needles

YEARS AGO WHEN I HAD TO HAVE BLOODWORK DONE I FAINTED AND FELL ON THE FLOOR. IT TOOK SEVERAL NURSES AND DOCTORS TO PICK ME UP AND PUT ME ON A CHAIR AND THEN THEY WHEELED ME TO ANOTHER ROOM. THEN ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO I HAD TO HAVE BLOODWORK DONE FOR AN UPCOMING OPERATION AND I GOT A CALL IN THE EVENING FROM A DOCTOR WHO SAID MY PLATLET COUNT WAS EXTREMELYLOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE AROUND 200,000!!SO I WENT DOWN TO HER OFFICE BUT THEY COULDN’T DRAW BLOOD ALTHOUGH THEY TRIED THREE TIMES. TWO DAYS LATER I WENT BACK TO THE ORIGINAL LAB AND THEY REDID THE TEST. IT WAS A LAB ERROR.SO FOR ALL THAT I WAS STABBED FIVE TIMES IN THREE DAYS!!

I’m afraid of needles. No, wait. Scratch that. I am irrationally, irrevocably, completely terrified of needles. I’ve been reading entries from people who are like “Oh, I just turned my head and before I knew it, it was done”. No, no. It doesn’t get to be that easy. Or at least I wish. I wish there was just one other person like me who had gotten over their fear and could give me some advice that I haven’t already tried. Earlier this year I got in a car accident and, long story short, ended up being committed so they had a judge-ordered blood test. I was completely composed until that point. I ended up losing eleven pounds in that struggle. It took them two policemen, five nurses, three doctors, and also three and a half hours to draw blood from me. And this was after they had already struggled with me for a half hour to inject me with a sedative. Before that traumatic event the last time I had gotten a blood test was when I was seven. I’m now nineteen. And even back then it took seven doctors and nurses to draw blood. Now, I can’t even watch injections in movies. If I even think about that needle peircing my skin my arms curl up and I can’t straighten them back out for at least an hour. No one has been able to touch even close to the middle of my arm or the whole arm cramp-up thing happens again. Sometimes even sleeves bother me. It’s not the pain. I’m a nanny, so the whole pain thing is a walk in the park. It’s the fact that it’s breaking my skin and taking my blood out. That blood is mine and I want to keep it! Yet, much of our world relies on blood tests to identify and resolve problems with our bodies. I know I need to get past that, but no matter what I can’t seem to rid myself of this fear.

not likely to happen. I survived the one today. so for getting over the fear today, done. which is about all I can hope for. I just don’t like hospitals or being poked with sharp objects.

it helps that I don’t have to encounter them often. but when I do, it’s not good. I’ve realized it’s definitely a mental thing, they don’t hurt that much. and having had a few hospital stays, I’ve gotten a good share of pokes. but I don’t like them.

The WORST fear of needles in the world.
I hate when people at my school say “oh ya, i hate them too” because i always think NOT AS MUCH AS ME.
They terrify me!
I’ve got to get my wisdom teeth out in a few weeks and i’ve been having panic attacks for hours everyday. I can’t focus because i’m ALWAYS thinking about it.
I’ve got exams in a week, so i really can’t be getting sidetracked.

I’m not toooo bad with dentist needles because they’re all pretty used to my fear and me coming in and have learned to keep my distracted and not knowing when the needles coming so i can’t panic.
I start crying when i hear people just talk about needles. i can’t look at pictures, and sometimes i freak just when my arms bare and when people poke my arm with their finger.

i HAVE to get over this fear, it’s ruining my life, but i can’t just say “man up and get over it” it doesn’t work that way.
I need help soo bad.
I am currently crying as i write this.

Today i went to the doctor, i was supposedly just going to get my blood taken out for my annual physical(as if that wasn’t bad enough) i left the clinic with three immunizations being poked into me, the last one hurting as if i had had my arm cut off, a few hours later, i can’t even take off my pullover hoodie because there is still pain and im scared of taking off the bandaids, i still feel those needles poking and hurting me, and im 16, but i felt like such a baby crying in the clinic in front of little kids!! i want to get over the fear of seeing blood and needles in combination, i want to work in the medical field, but how can I if i myself still cry when i hear the needle being taken out of its package. Any suggestions?

Ive been afraid of them since I was a kid, it’s been lurking with me ever since and I still cry with them at the age of 21, its embaressing and I need to crack this childhood fear :(

Ok, so I’m not so sure I would list this as conquered quite yet. Maybe I relapsed hahaha oh well. I’m still able to hold and look at them without getting nauseous, and I’m pretty sure I can get a shot in my arm as long as I don’t look. But I think it’s the vernerability I feel when I go for blood work and have my inner arm just open for them to poke at. UGH!!! I am going to have quite the time beating this one, huh? Guess I better re-add this as something I’m doing again!

needles. thinking about a sharp object impailing through my body gives me the goose bumps. but now that im almost 17, i think its time to grow up. when the right time comes around (and the money) i will get my ears pierced (more than one), belly button, and nose, oh and tattoos!

as for blood being drawn….that might take a while….

i can’t stand needles.