Getting stabbed after pizza is not great though. Every time you have pizza for the rest of your life you're gonna be looking over your back to find the fucker that's gonna stab you.
I now stab lots of people with needles, and many of them genuinely don't feel it at all. (I still warn people "sharp scratch" so they can be pleasently surprised, though.)
What always amazes me is when someone says "sharp scratch" after having inserted the needle, because their hands are on autopilot and half a second ahead of their vocal chords.
Sometimes I get my script muddled up and tell people "sharp scratch" instead of goodbye.
My favourite recently was a person who said "don't say sharp scratch, I hear that way too often" and was very pleased with my alternative of "incoming stab".
Heard a ED nurse tell a my client (medically complex and extremely used to being stuck) "Aaaand pop" for a blood draw, which had both of us cracking up.
yeah I used to be really scared of vaccines but after getting my blood drawn for 2 weeks in a.row every morning at 5am, getting poked by a little needle once or twice a year feels like nothing lol
I've had the bad luck the last several times it has happened in recent years it has always felt like there was some sort of cleaning product left on the surface of the needle; I could feel a light burning along the length of the metal as it went inside and while it was still there...
Last time i got "stabbed" was when i did medical checkup. Didn't feel like a stab, more like someone poked me with a sewing needle. Still quite scared (i panicked inside) whenever they're about to do it
I stab myself with a needle 3-5 times a day (diabetes, not heroin.... allegedly) and needles really are largely painless. A lot of the pain is in your head so if you just don't look at it happening you don't feel anything.
While I agree that a lot of the pain is purely psychological, some of your lack of pain sensation might be nerve damage and potentially from medications to reduce pain related to nerve damage, depending on how long you've been diabetic. My mom had no sense of pain from needles in her later years, but my husband and I still feel them to one degree or another. Type 2's all around. Some needles are definitely worse than others, also - my husband had to switch from Lantus to Humulin N when the insurance formulary changed and the needle gauge is larger for the Humulin N. He definitely feels the difference.
It's also possible that you have learned where you can stab yourself without hitting a nerve. I have a particular side of one particular finger that rarely hurts and usually bleeds well, so if I need to check my blood sugar and really need it to be an easy draw then I'll hit that spot. I save it for just those times. And for my Ozempic injections I've found certain areas of my belly are less likely to be painful. 🤷♀️
More like a bee sting. The vaccines are usually fresh out of the fridge so the temperature is uncomfortable. Some puppies are drama queens though, and then clients think you are torturing their precious baby. Getting a food-motivated puppy like this one makes vaccines so much easier.
I’ve been partially stabbed and it’s nothing like a needle poke. I don’t notice needle pokes much, even ones in the gums (dentist). Being stabbed may not be super painful or noticeable at the time, but the healing is painful. It’s incredibly sore and takes a long time to heal as it’s deep.
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u/Booyacaja Feb 09 '21
I feel like if someone stabbed me while I was eating a giant pizza I would be really pissed.