Blood test horror!!

[Del]

I had to have my blood taken the other day for check up reasons. My liver function results last time were quite high owing to an increased imuron dosage.
I have no problem with having my blood taken....until the other day. I work on an ICU, so usually get one of my colleagues to do it for me.

The other day did not go well... My colleague missed the vein and it was sore.. On the second attempt, they missed again and this time I got very weak and very faint and thought I was going to throw up in front of my colleagues. Sweat just began pouring through my skin and they began fanning me with paper...I felt like **** momentarily..

I recovered and we all decided to leave it alone for a few hours..Sometime after lunch, I got the blood taken by one of my colleagues who performed it with out flaw. The results showed my LF results are now back down in normal territory and all looks good.

So overall...a happy ending..

 

[Grumbletum]

Ouch! Glad you got it done OK and levels are good. I have 'good veins' and am fine if I don't look. But once at the surgery, it wasn't the usual nurse and she tried once in each arm and once in my hand and still couldn't get it. Thought I was gonna faint and I NEVER faint. Doc came in and got it first time, but looked like junkie arms.
Very glad the IBD nurse who does my Remi canula is a gentle, gets it first timer

 

[robbo87]

Glad the results are good! and that there is a happy ending!
I absolutely hate having bloods done. I used to be fine but since april my doctor told me I've had about 80 blood tests and as time went on it became harder and harder to find a vein! I remember one day I had 4 people try twice and fail until they decided to to go in my foot, which not only failed but was agonising! Having a pic line inserted was a saviour, until the inevitable happened and even that stopped functioning! lol

 

[StarGirrrrl]

My veins are deep (and have a habit of dissapearing rapidly) so I have it taken with the butterfly needle from my hand. Even using those 4 or 6 sticks are not unusual and quite normal to me lol.

 

[Gwen pippy]

No Del, you poor love, I was great getting bloods done from age 11 until about 21 then BAM needle phobia out of the blue, what made it worse was when I'd say I have a phobia it would make whoever was taking the blood nervous and so the cycle would continue. When I was pregnant they got so nervous that they passed me off to 4 different people before one had the courage to do the blood test, then BAM I hit 33 and I was able to sit and watch the needles again no bother!!! But I started to experience SCOPE phobia!!
I'm my own worst enemy hahaha
Gwen xxx

 

[shamrock15]

Unless you are talking about mouthwash, I don't think scope phobia is a phobia. I haven't needed sedatives for any procedure I have ever taken, except for endoscopes. Those just freak me right out!

 

[Gwen pippy]

Unless you are talking about mouthwash, I don't think scope phobia is a phobia. I haven't needed sedatives for any procedure I have ever taken, except for endoscopes. Those just freak me right out!

Believe me I suffered, scope phobia exists in my world hahaha Everytime I had to go in for a scope the mere mention caused tachycardia, very low blood pressure and vomiting, thank goodness it didn't last for long, only a couple of years. After 25 years of several scopes in any one year I think if I could join the collective scopes together I could probably play jump rope with several hundred people hehehe