Blood test, is there any point?

[MisterB]

Are the needles they all use always blunt?

 

[Larby]

My dog has never said they were

 

[tinks703]

Any blood test I have had over the past 10 years I have never felt it.
Just thinking when I was at school 56 plus in a class we lined up for polio jabs and something else. Right arm was one jab left arm was the other. You felt that not one of us got upset or made a noise about it, nor did I see any body giving the jabs change a needle.
There would be hell to play if this happened today, I can see snowflakes falling!!!

 

[Two on Tour]

Are the needles they all use always blunt?

Do you feel a prick then ?

 

[ceejayt]

Do you feel a prick then ?

I get more worried when they say "we are just going to give you a small prick"

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[MisterB]

a pint? that's a whole armful ...

 

[keithchesterfield2]

The point of a blood test for you is to find what may, or may not, be wrong with you internal workings -- and that can't be a bad thing.

If one little prick is worrying you then either you're a snowflake or you need to see a urologist.

 

[MisterB]

The point of a blood test for you is to find what may, or may not, be wrong with you internal workings -- and that can't be a bad thing.

If one little prick is worrying you then either you're a snowflake or you need to see a urologist.

what the f do climate change and euros have to do with it, Brexit means Brexit, apparently

 

[Lenny HB]

You must be thick skinned.

 

[Jaws]

I get more worried when they say "we are just going to give you a small prick"

Then there was the woman who asked how much would it cost for a big one instead ?

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[ShiftZZ]

I have regular blood tests, the vast majority of them done by @The Happy Hooker at home, the vast majority are virtually pain free. I also have regular venesections, ie blood taken out, like blood donation, but my blood is destroyed, they use a cannula, which is a bit bigger than a blood test needle, that a little more painful, but after 55 pints out in 5 years you get used to it.

I am very lucky, I have nice veins some are unlucky and have poor veins.

 

[tonyidle]

There would be hell to play if this happened today, I can see snowflakes falling!!!

If you mean about not changing needles that was and is criminal and should be treated as such. Otherwise I agree about lack of pain etc.

 

[laneside]

If you do not like blood samples being taken then avoid having a bone marrow sample taken. I had that done just this week and boy does it make your eyes water.

 

[keithchesterfield2]

what the f do climate change and euros have to do with it, Brexit means Brexit, apparently

WTF - has this to do with blood tests?

 

[nicholsong]

Any blood test I have had over the past 10 years I have never felt it.
Just thinking when I was at school 56 plus in a class we lined up for polio jabs and something else. Right arm was one jab left arm was the other. You felt that not one of us got upset or made a noise about it, nor did I see any body giving the jabs change a needle.
There would be hell to play if this happened today, I can see snowflakes falling!!!

Our polio vaccinations were not injections, but multiple punctures onto the upper arm and the 'serum' being inserted through them.

Still got the scar, as have most people of my age.

There was a polio epidemic in Brighton & Hove when I was young - traced eventually to being spread through one laundry, before we had home washing machines.

Geoff

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[tick59]

Must have gone to a posh school we got our polio in a sugar lump. The school was approved.

 

[GMLS]

I hate needles so now ask for a butterfly needle. Completely painless but does take a little longer to get the required amount

 

[nicholsong]

Must have gone to a posh school we got our polio in a sugar lump. The school was approved.

I am sure it was not done at school. I think because of the epidemic there may have been special vaccination clinics set up.

 

[DBK]

Our polio vaccinations were not injections, but multiple punctures onto the upper arm and the 'serum' being inserted through them.

Still got the scar, as have most people of my age.

There was a polio epidemic in Brighton & Hove when I was young - traced eventually to being spread through one laundry, before we had home washing machines.

Geoff

The multiple needle jab was for TB I seem to recall. Given around age 13 or so.

 

[The Wino]

Our polio vaccinations were not injections, but multiple punctures onto the upper arm and the 'serum' being inserted through them.

Still got the scar, as have most people of my age.

There was a polio epidemic in Brighton & Hove when I was young - traced eventually to being spread through one laundry, before we had home washing machines.

Geoff

I think that was a TB vaccination I remember when we had ours given advice not to swim for a couple of weeks that afternoon the PE was......swimming!!!!. I remember there was a first test to see if you already were immune if not the BCG vaccination which usually went a bit funny after and took a while to heal. A similar scar was from the smallpox vaccination. That being said both a lot better than the real thing. maybe they took the chance to update other vaccinations at the time of the polio outbreak?

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[laneside]

The multiple needle jab was for TB I seem to recall. Given around age 13 or so.

Are you sure that it wasn’t smallpox...... just asking.

 

[TheBig1]

Due to years of repeated blood tests and problems with my veins, i have to have blood tests taken from my hand using a tiny butterfly needle. The one i hate and very few doctors have succeeded on me is the blood gasses blood test. No toriquet and a big needle into an artery on the wrist. I generally have bruises for weeks after, normally on both wrists where they failed to draw blood.

The specialist at papworth has seen this all before and draws blood from my ear lobe

 

[DBK]

Are you sure that it wasn’t smallpox...... just asking.

Might have been. I haven't had either disease so it must have worked.

 

[MisterB]

When i started the thread it was obviously a poor attempt at humour ...

 

[TheBig1]

I remember having to have a tetanus booster at the doctors once. The nurse had a huge hypadermic needle and i told her where to stick it. She must of been confused as it ended up in my buttock.

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[scotzsue]

I have what looks like a fat juicy vein in one armm however it collapses as soon as a needle touches it. Have another whichlooks inaccesible which works fine. Have realised it is much better to say not that one thanks than have someone making a mess of it, and being left with massive bruises.
For the record, I did take bloods in my job, babies are worse, it is not like getting a thread in a needle, more the other way about. Some folks are brilliant at it, others no matter how much practice they get are pretty useless.

 

[carolyn]

The multiple jab thing was the mantoux test and was to see if you needed the BCG for TB, or if you needed further investigation to see if you already had active disease or were already immune. Smallpox was a single jab given in the upper arm. Polio was only available as a live vaccine until very recently so was administered orally, all of us mature folk had it on a sugar lump. This is fact by the way not me just trying to remember it.

 

[Tea Bag]

When i started the thread it was obviously a poor attempt at humour ...

Hi
I will RAISE your poor attempt at humour
This bit of advice will help those amongst us who HATE injections/needles ... When i had stopped howling and wailing during a blood test,the very nice nurse said.(Words to the effect of) Being as you are scared "Witless?.I can inform you it will not be easier for you next time WIMP!!! Your veins take evasive action when being threatened and go back DEEPER into the body. When saying enough was enough blood letting during a stay at the Derby Royal Infirmary,a senior Nurse (Butt kicker!!!) came in and said."Let the nurse take the sample from your arm NOW!.otherwise........... I will send you down to Heamatology ? where they will take a sample from your NECK!!!" The Nurse was called Leda the bleeder.We got on famously after that.
Tea Bag

 

[pappajohn]

I get more worried when they say "we are just going to give you a small prick"

My practice nurses aren't allowed to say that any more

PC says they must say "small scratch"

 

[pappajohn]

Are the needles they all use always blunt?

None of them are blunt, it's the javelin thrower using it that makes it sting.

Some nurse can do it, some can't.

When I had an angiogram the student nurse tried to insert a cannula in the back of my hand.... And failed the first time, had to do it again, that hurt.
When I had subsequent heart surgery the theatre prep nurse did it and I didn't even know it was in.
Mind, when I got back on the ward and found I had a bloody big needle with six tubes sticking out the main artery in my neck..... I think that might have stung a bit if I'd been awake.

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