Afraid of needles?

I'm terrified of needles have been since I had one scrape the bone. The way I deal with it is I look away, as long as I don't see it I'm usually ok, and I usually hold onto something like a squeeze toy with other hand. I have explained this to most medical people and they understand, although one said I was stupid, and I freaked when I saw the needle and punched him!

The moment I read the word "needle" or "injection", I immediately felt weak. I'm very very VERY scared of the thought of injections. I'm not really scared of needles because I use them to sew. But when I think about the thought of needles penetrating my skin, I feel so weak. Just like right now! I can't type decently because I'm starting to sweat and get so weak. I don't how to get over it, and whether I will actually get over it. I need to have my flu vaccine this year, and I honestly don't know what to do. It's a requirement for college, but I really don't want to because I'm terribly afraid of getting injected. :|

I actually have never been afraid of needles. I am one of those people that always has to see when they are putting an injection into my arm. I am a person that doesn't mind giving blood because the needles don't bother me. It has been something that I can't really say that I enjoy, but it is something that doesn't completely make me anxious. Now, if they wouldn't let me see when they were sticking, I don't think that I would be able to handle it.

i have always been afraid of needles, any kind. i only came to terms with that particular aspect in health and medical care a few years ago. before, i try every reason in the book and elsewhere, just to avoid the needle. i even feign sickness or set conflicts just to run away from a possible session with the needle. now, because injections and blood extractions are part of monitoring one's condition, needles no longer bother me.

I have always been afraid of needles. I think it started because of association , then it proceeded to me usually passing gout after wards. The anticipations is awful for me , lol. I try to avoid it as much s possible if I can. So I am sure I am part of the reason as to why I react they way that I do.

some two years back. i had just passed my first aid course. i was asked to help out some hyperactive children and persons who were also intellectually challenged as well as those who manifested behavioral misadjustments for their annual health check and vaccination. some of these people were real big and real strong. there were lots of persuasion and struggles of course. but to me, what was more challenging weren't all those but the long sharp needles i have to face as each enters the room.

I don't like needles but I just look the other way when the doctor or nurse sticks me with one. I just look away and when it pokes in I just try to think it will be out soon.

I am afraid of needles or anything sharp entering the skin. I have passed out more then once from it. I have to turn my head. Once a medical assistant came to my house to do blood work on me for my insurance and she kept sticking me with the needle. She was new. She asked me if this is where they usually stick you and I looked as she was putting the needle in my arm and I could just feel myself getting light headed. I turned to my house who was holding our 5 month old at the time and said I don't feel so good. Then I was out. I was sitting at my kitchen table and falling out of the chair. Hubby was trying to hold me up with the baby in his arms and the girl was just standing there. I think I freaked her out. She quit her job the next day lol. Guess I wasn't a good person for her to work with on her first day.

I'm horrified of needles or anything else, for that matter, penetrating my skin. For no real reason, too; it's an unjustified fear that I just have. It was so bad when I was little that at one point I actually hung onto a door frame at home and my brother had to pull me off of it to get me to go to the doctor. Later that day, I hid in the doctor's office bathroom for over a half hour trying to avoid my appointment. At 21 years old, I still have to hold someone's hand to get my blood taken for whatever reason. It used to be my mom, and now that my husband and I are together he goes with me and holds my hand while talking about our children (we are child-free and speak of our cats as our children). He'll bring up what cute things our cats did that day, how lucky we are to have such beautiful kits, etc., and just thinking about my babies relieves me of most of the terror out of getting my blood drawn. I've had a few instances where I'm thinking about my eldest cat and don't even feel the needle at all. Obviously thinking of beautiful things won't help everyone, but I'd give it a try. Think of your spouse, your kids (whether animal or human!), oceans, music, whatever makes you happy. See if it helps your mind go elsewhere.

I'm terrified but getting better with shots. I think it started when I had a bad experience with a needle-got a shot in the arm (I had to have it after childbirth because my blood type is A-and my body destroys any foreign objects such as fetuses) It was so painful it hurt for months afterward. I recently got a flu shot and my nurse is so good that I didn't even know she'd given the shot. The funny thing? I have 3 tattoos! I think I'm okay as long as I don't see the needle itself!

When I was a child I was afraid of needles. I think most children are. Along the way, I have had so many injections and IV's that it is no big deal anymore. I still look away though. The worst thing for me is having blood drawn, when we got our blood test for a marriage license, I passed out when it was my turn.

I used to be afraid of needles until I started working as a receptionist in a doctor's office. I had the doctor draw my blood for testing and didn't feel a thing! The next time I needed bloodwork done, I even watched him draw it. I now watch whenever anyone gives me a shot and even offered to be trained to give shots to our patients. As long as the person is in control and knows what they are doing, then needles aren't that scary to me.

I don't scared to be injected with needles but I don't feel really comfort. I am rarely sick so the only time I get injected is when I got immunization. My sister was a nurse so I get use to see or hold a needles. I think you had to handle your fear my friend, today needle is something we had to face when we sick. Maybe you can buy needle or something you afraid and put it somewhere you can look it every time, try to hold it might work.

we're the same,when i was small i really don't like having injection sessions.i fell different when thinking that there's something sharp that will point at you.i just shut my eyes close and think of something nice on my thoughts while they are needling me.but sometimes it really comes into my mind that i have to be injected. i also didn't like something that is directed on me.example is when we are eating with the whole family,and the ladle of the rice is pointed at my direction i don't feel comfortable with that.i always see to it that there's nothing pointing at my direction.to be safe,i guess.

Yes, I am afraid of the injections. I always look around but not the needle to inject me. Although it is not a scare of pain, but it is a horrible feeling. I love China

I'm afraid of needles especially when they have to stick my fingers because that hurts the worse of anything. Sometimes I can just turn my head and not look but poking at my fingers is too much for me.

I am afraid of needles too when I am at the aged of between 5 until 12 years old but when I learn about the reasons behind immunization and the benefit one could get from it. I started to think a little bit mature and just close my eyes everytime I another boost of injection ranging from BCG, tetanus, Hepa etc... Since thinking about the pain and the fear that the needles may break on my skin from my wilder imagination it could be so funny sometimes, but luckily it never happen so far. I just make myself calm and when others coax me not to be afraid since it is not really painful and they said it is like being bitten by an ant so as my consolation. The things when i am afraid is being cut by anything that is sharp that it gives a wider cut that so very cruel when one experience extreme excruciating pain. It really terrible so that is also the situation whom i do not like to undergo and as much as possible when I could avoid it then i would elude it as much as i could.

I remember when I was a kid, I used to really cry out loud in the doctor's office when I had to be injected with something, to the extent that the doctor's secretary had to bribe me with chocolates just to shut up. haha. right now, everytime we'd have our annual physical, I still get a little bit scared, but not as much. yey for me! LOL.

Needles are really a necessary part of life. Needles are used to inject stuff to make you feel better. So I just have to suck it up and try not to think about it when the doctor or nurse is injecting me. I am not a huge fan of needles and will try not to become a Diabetic that needs insulin injections everyday.

I think all of us are afraid of needles, It symbolizes one thing. Pain. If ever I'm taken any invasive procedure with the use of needle, I distract myself. I dont look at the whole procedure, the more I do it the more it scares me. I dont like it that much, much more the pain.