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Needle phobia

My spouse does it and I look at the wall

Started 21 September 2024 · 24 replies · 280 hearts · read 3.9k times

Ollie OPeterhead, UK · 21 September 2024
1.8 years ago

My spouse does it and I look at the wall Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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PerrineStrasbourg, FR
#1

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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BronLincoln, UK
#2

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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HéloïseGeneva, CH
#3

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#4

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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WinkleWeymouth, UK
#5

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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IslaOban, UK
#6

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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TaaviTallinn, EE
#7

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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BramwellRipon, UK
#8

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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BassCoventry, UK
#9

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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TavitaApia, WS
#10

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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PietPretoria, ZA
#11

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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Bryn MNeath, UK
#12

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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DelythBala, UK
#13

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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Ollie OPeterhead, UK
#14

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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PerrineStrasbourg, FR
#15

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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BronLincoln, UK
#16

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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HéloïseGeneva, CH
#17

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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BessLouth, UK
#18

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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WinkleWeymouth, UK
#19

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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IslaOban, UK
#20

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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TaaviTallinn, EE
#21

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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BramwellRipon, UK
#22

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#23

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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TavitaApia, WS
#24

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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