I have to get a Needle

[PaulMacC]

Argh, Everyone in the Year is getting a Polio inject to prevent us from it and some other disease, I really dispiese needles and I dont want to be humilated infront of the whole year group.

Help

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[WarezKid]

Dont look at it, just talk to the doc about something

like your fav football Lol

[Ostinato]

Lol the polio really isn't sore - honestly. It's just a quick wee jag that you don't feel.

Also it won't be as though you'll be on a stage and everyone is watching you. I know in my school a few of us were getting it at the same time so no-one really took notice, and everyone is more concerned about themselves lol.

Just don't look or think about it! Think about something you like or what you are going to do this weekend! :)

[minidommy]

Hang on is that known as the BCG injection?

[sarey]

we don't get that, well none of us in my year did...

[jackass]

LOL, speak of the devil!

I have just got back from having my polio, tetanus etc.

It isn't as bad as you think, I hate them more than anyone, I almost passed out (again). But it was fine after. Hurts a bit now, mind you.

If you don't want it at school have it at the doctors, like I did. :}

[iTechnical]

I had it 4-5 days ago,
it hurts for literally one second, then goes.
No more injections till you're 15! :D

[:Liam]

If you are scared of needles (like me) get your parents to send in a note to say you'll get it done at a doctors, its usually better at the doctors because they put time and care in, it doesnt get rushed. At my doctors they put your arm on a pillow and the give you gas and air and they put numbing cream on your arm. Go to your doctors :)

[dirrty]

i had an injection when turned 15. i liked it lol. it didnt hurt one bit, just felt kinda weird which i liked.

[,Jess,]

Is that the one where you have the needle with the 6 little bits in or something and then 2 weeks later they decide whetehr you have the proper one and it's in your are and leaves a mark like forever. I know what I mean lol, err anyway yeah injections aren't that bad, they seem like it but they're over with in a couple of seconds and you don't feel much pain ;]

[RandomManJay]

Is that the one where you have the needle with the 6 little bits in or something and then 2 weeks later they decide whetehr you have the proper one and it's in your are and leaves a mark like forever. I know what I mean lol, err anyway yeah injections aren't that bad, they seem like it but they're over with in a couple of seconds and you don't feel much pain ;]

Thats the BCG yeah, I had that when I was 2 days old, a lot of people in my year had the 6 ***** like me, but mine swoll up so I didnt need it, some of my year sprayed it with deodorant so it swelled (not the best course of action).

Anyways, I dont concentrate on the injection, but I always have a fear of there being an air bubble in the injection thats gonna kill me, If they dont tap the injection, I wont have it done until (its a bit like OCD). But just dont look at it, and try to get into a conversation while they're doing it, so you wont know when you get it, and probably wont notice.

[jackass]

Is that the one where you have the needle with the 6 little bits in or something and then 2 weeks later they decide whetehr you have the proper one and it's in your are and leaves a mark like forever. I know what I mean lol, err anyway yeah injections aren't that bad, they seem like it but they're over with in a couple of seconds and you don't feel much pain ;]

Lol nah, thats the TB injection. (Turberculosis or however you spell it!).

Plus, you don't have to have the TB one anymore, unless you come from certain countries or something.

[Mrak-Face]

You could just not get it and risk dying from the disease out of irony.

Anyway, needles where they pump something into you is far better than when they take something out of you.

[Hayd93]

polio dont hurt at all really after being in hospital and having there wire thing shoved in my arm now that did hurt

[,Jess,]

Lol nah, thats the TB injection. (Turberculosis or however you spell it!).

Plus, you don't have to have the TB one anymore, unless you come from certain countries or something.

Oyeahh lol that's the one, they're all the same to me ;P

[&]

your year 10 i spose
i was scared bobbaless of that, so i went in first

it really didnt hurt, i felt nothing.
its okkkk, i hate needles.

[Favourtism]

If you are scared of needles (like me) get your parents to send in a note to say you'll get it done at a doctors, its usually better at the doctors because they put time and care in, it doesnt get rushed. At my doctors they put your arm on a pillow and the give you gas and air and they put numbing cream on your arm. Go to your doctors :)
Yeah I goto hospotal for bloodetsts and they give me cream - dont feel a damn thing aslong as they wait 30mins for it to get numb and its cool. I had a panic attack about them when I was smaller but atschol in year 2 I had it and just ignored it :S


Lol nah, thats the TB injection. (Turberculosis or however you spell it!).

Plus, you don't have to have the TB one anymore, unless you come from certain countries or something.
I am in year 9 so when my next injection lol

[&]

Next injection = yr10

they cancelled TB Jab 1week before we were due to have it.
I was really cacking myself.

[5,5]

Just man up and take it! If that don't work then just skip school that day?

[Kenneth]

I had one yesterday, they have this thing with plastic spikes on it that make you not deel the shot. Well in USA. Didnt hurt a bit

[efq]

I wasn't too keen on the until they said just take your mind of it and talk about something you like.

I just talked about football and I didn't realized I had one.

In hospital when I they fought I had meningitis I had to have 7-9 injections.

I was talking to my dad about the match coming up and it was like a flash.


Btw, I didn't have meningitis in the end.

[Favourtism]

Next injection = yr10

they cancelled TB Jab 1week before we were due to have it.
I was really cacking myself.
Lucky :O

I wasn't too keen on the until they said just take your mind of it and talk about something you like.

I just talked about football and I didn't realized I had one.

In hospital when I they fought I had meningitis I had to have 7-9 injections.

I was talking to my dad about the match coming up and it was like a flash.


Btw, I didn't have meningitis in the end.

Yeah its only for few secs

[&]

Just man up and take it! If that don't work then just skip school that day?

then youll have to go to your doctors ;)

[Carlsta]

Im like 15 and not had one yet :P
but had some before and i dont like needlesss!
im in yr 10 so i dunno when i have them or if we have them anymre!

[Benjiwenji1_old]

go to your local surgery and ask to have it done there

[&]

Im like 15 and not had one yet :P
but had some before and i dont like needlesss!
im in yr 10 so i dunno when i have them or if we have them anymre!

youll get a letter soon :0
its done round January time..

[minidommy]

A good thing is to cough when having an injection ;D You don't feel as much.
Reason: Something scientific but it works. ;D

Or you can chew gum or eat some chocolate while you're having your injection to put your mind off it a bit.

[jackass]

Lucky :O

No its not lucky.

Tuberculosis is a horrible disease. And i'm frustrated that they have cancelled the jab.

[Technologic]

Hang on is that known as the BCG injection?
Ha. I didn't have to have my BCG cus i'm immune.

Even though i got scanned for it loafds cus my dad was born in kenya whilst his parent were on holiday "Higher risk of catching it" My ****

[BobX]

I had these 2 injections, one in either arm when i was 15, it didn't hurt at all, just don't look :)

[mike475]

I had mine last week, its nothing like an injection.
I said to her "*** is that it?" shes goes yeah and im like "wow"

Nothing like an injection..
You got nothing to worry about.

[Jinc]

I have to put up with those damn needles every day, when I get my fix of crack.

;)

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[tart]

I have the 2 injections and sugar cube tomorrow and i have the biggest fear of injections. Any advice on how to get throught tomorrow without killing someone thanks. x

[RandomManJay]

These are the techniques I use:
- Take your mind off of it, they're only injections,
- The more your preoccupied while waiting, the less bothered you will be when it comes to it (at least thats what I'm like).
- If you cant take your mind off of it, ask the nurse etc. See if they can put you at ease.
- Spark a conversation with them and dont look at the needle.
- Ask if they can give you it while your talking to them so you wont notice as much.

All these techniques have worked for me and my friends when we got ours

[KrimeScene]

Before you go, Get someone to give you a dead arm lolz.

[Lycan]

its an injection takes 3 seconds be laxed and uncaring about it and it won't bother you

[Catzsy]

Send somebody else in your place? :) Seriously though the best tip is to relax the arm as much as possible. It was a tip given to me and it seems to work :)

[PriceTags]

Relax, close your eyes and look away. I have lots of injections and blood tests, and thats the thing to do. Sometimes a Where's Wally helps too.

[JackHb]

The doctors forgot to send for me for mine so i had it like last year and it killed!!
Well the one did, i was going mental on the nurse and then she said "haha now i know why babys cry when they have it" :@

[5,5]

Just think about ice cream.

[buttons]

GET OVER IT
dats mi best advice

[PaulMacC]

Im getting just the 1 injection on Wednesday, I think it's 1 maybe 2.
I hope it's not painful!

[PaulMacC]

Im still really nervous, I dont want to burst out in tears infront of the whole school.
I know you keep saying it isnt sore but any prepartions I can do like nipping myself?

Anyone know how long it is

[&]

Im still really nervous, I dont want to burst out in tears infront of the whole school.
I know you keep saying it isnt sore but any prepartions I can do like nipping myself?

Anyone know how long it is

a second if that.

I asked if I could go very first away from everyone, so they agreed :)


Anyone know if you have injections in Yr 11?

[PaulMacC]

Whats better going 1st or last.

[Elliott$]

Take it like a man

go like in between 1st and last

[BobX]

Go in first, then act like it really hurt to everyone else and laugh at them crying, It don't hurt :)

[mike475]

It only goes in about 1cm..
Dude dont worry, just think about that kid who might also be in your year bricking it and when he see's the needle he'll start screaming and screaming and would have to be restrained by all the teachers and taken to the mental hospital, so really its not that bad for you :)

[jackass]

@PaulMacC - It lasts for 5 seconds, goes in about 1cm, doesn't hurt. Yet it will hurt your arm quite a bit about 2 hours afterwards for a few days. A tip is, put something really strong in your mouth, like really sour or really strong mint, don't look at it, close your eyes tight and count to ten. It works, trust me. :8

@Rehab - There should be no more planned injections in year 11. :)

[awelsh]

I had mine in year 8, how come everyone now has it in year 11? well people in my school havent even had it, but the school I was in before already had them just before I moved, how unlucky is it.

Im pretty scared of needles but it doesnt hurt at all, i even walked into a hand dryer after having mine, I know. Im a fool :P

[PaulMacC]

Rate the pain outta 10.
People said it goes in for literally 1 second.

[jackass]

Pain while in - 1.5/10
Pain an hour after - 5/10

[PaulMacC]

Dont worry, I'll have an ice pack at the ready

[Jaiisun]

Talk, talk, talk!
I was talking for ages until I realised i'd had the needle done ages ago!

[cocaine]

sit there and occupy yourself

[Jaiisun]

I said in the other similar thread;

chat away to the person doing the needle.
it'll be over quickly; and maybe you'll do what i did, and not even notice it was done!

[PaulMacC]

I think people are exaggerating saying talk to someone and you dont notice it.
Your obviously going to notice if a piece of metal gets put into you.
Argh I just will hate the feeling

[PaulMacC]

All i can say is think about it. Would you rather have a few seconds of pain or lose some of your limbs to polio... Would you like to feel like you are burning up cause of Tetanus and don't even let me go into diptheria... I'm not saying its not gonna be sore and painfull. but its nothing to the pain that these horrible diseases inflict on people. Its just like a sting from a bee. After 10 minutes you don't even feel it anymore. That is nothing to a lifetimes suffering.

Take from some site

[iTechnical]

the shot doesnt hurt. Get over it.




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[Susie Dent]

errrrrr I think this is the one we had to do at school but I didn't get it because I didn't bring the letter back. If everyone else gets the jab then I hardly need it

[PaulMacC]

Your loss then.

How was it?
Im getting mines this week ;'(

[Middlesbrough]

Actuallyy, ask the nurse or doctor if they have some numbing cream, works a charm in mboro.

[tart]

had it done and it really didn't hurt. thanks for the advice everyone xx

[alex 1889]

Surprised how scared everyone was, i didnt need it doing because id already had it done a couple of months before along with a few others [Back when i was about 7 i had to have two every day when i was badly ill].

A couple of people didnt have them done because there parents didnt believe in the whole principle of it all. Anyone else have them at school?

[adidas™]

wat jab was it?

[5,5]

What is jab day? We don't have that in the USA

[patrick.]

I didn't have it, but a mate of mine had one at another school and she said it made her arm dead

Was it for polio or summit?

[WarezKid]

My older mates had them,


We just kept punching them in the arm :P

[LOLROB]

are school dont do that because
of some crap about nedles in school

it was dont have it done or go to the doctors and have it done
160+ ppl in my year group i think under 3% had it done rofl

i honesly h8 them

[reindeer.]

yh i got one nxt week
dont look and it hurts less than a pinch.
look and it seems to hurt more.

[Alkaz]

It really dont hurt. They should talk to u and tell u to turn the other way.
It stings for like 1m after but then its ok xD nothing to be affraid of.

[PaulMacC]

It's tomarrow -.-

[Falcon]

I didn't feel mine, but some folk said they felt slight pressure but no pain..

ohhh.. ober the days after it your arm will be in pain, i couldn't lift mine up.

[PaulMacC]

Im getting it tomarrow at 9:40am
or today should I say.
Argh Im rly worried but my mates said theirs was okay as they got it a day earlier.

[PlKEY-ARMY]

did it hurt bbz?

[@K]

I don't particulary like needles either, (<UNDERSTATEMENT lol), I once had to have my dad holding my arms down, my brother sat ontop of me, and my nan holding my legs just for a meninjitus (sp) jab, but for my BCG jab in school, I just went sat down infront of everyone (I was first because I wasn't in school) and when I started getting nervous I just started say 'sit, sit, sit, sit', and then I turned and looked at the injection and started say 'duck, duck, duck, duck', lol, but it was nothing, plus I was determined not to cry in front of my mates.

[GommeInc]

Needles aren't frightening... What you need to realise is that they won't kill you unless you and the pain is temporary. Besides, they're probably going to prevent alot more pain and suffering in the future if you somehow get the disease they're preventing. Just look the other way or talk to the nurses, that's what I do at least. It's over in about 2-5 seconds.

Havent you had it now Paul?

[mangle]

I had blood taken on friday , that didn't hurt :]

Don't worry about the polio one its a tiny needle anyway!

[spot.]

ur worried bout a needle?
dont be a wimp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jackass]

How'd it go?

[PaulMacC]

It was like a pinch going in and fine, I asked her is it out and it was still in, thats how much I didnt notice it.
It's really stiff and sore now (My left arm)

[Soy]

lol needles are all hype. It doesn't actualy hurt but you might feel a small tickle for a while but nothing more. Ask the nurse to pull your skin back when your doing it [you wont feel anything]

[jackass]

Yeah, it will be like a stiff dull ache for a few days afterwards.

[bubble79]

I had that one about a year ago now and I didn;'t even realise I#d ahd it untilt eh nurse said 'ok thats it' so it really wasn't that terrible. The TB one where you had the littel test first was painful but people don't have that one anymore.

[PaulMacC]

It's so stiff and sore when I move it.

[le harry]

only tetanus hurts..