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Subject: Re: Does Longer Needle Length Make Shots Hurt More??


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Mitch
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Date Posted: Friday, June 24, 2022, 06:34: pm
In reply to: Doug 's message, "Does Longer Needle Length Make Shots Hurt More??" on Sunday, June 19, 2022, 08:29: pm

I think the way needles are made nowadays, they're so sharp they slide right into tough muscle tissue like a knife through hot butter. If the nurse or whoever gives the shot uses proper technique, the needle jab itself can almost not even be felt a lot times. And proper technique calls for using a fluid and sudden darting motion. I can't stand for the nurse to slowly slide the needle in. That can hurt.

The tip or bevel of the needle is edged like a razor. You can drag the tip of it across a sheet of notebook paper, and it will cut right through it. The outside surface of the needle itself is also coated with a material to make it smoother going in. Million dollar robots manufacture these things to minute tolerances. Compare this to the fact that in the old days, clinics reused needles. Nurses even had to take time to periodically hone a rudimentary edge when they got dull.

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Carl
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Date Posted: Saturday, June 25, 2022, 09:36: am

I was expecting my tetanus shot to hurt when I ripped my hand open on a large staple. It merely felt like the nurse gently touched me with a ballpoint pen. That was all. But I was sore as hell the next morning.

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