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

Author:
Doug

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Date Posted: Friday, June 24, 2022, 02:35: pm
In reply to: Doug 's message, "Does Longer Needle Length Make Shots Hurt More??" on Sunday, June 19, 2022, 08:29: pm

Paulo & Coltonzg.....You guys are 100% RIGHT! I got the shot at the very end of the Dr visit. That girl that gave me the shot, I don't think she realized how much I was dreading it. She asked me what my dominant arm is. I hesitated at first before saying my right. She prepared to jab me in my left arm. I got a glimpse of the needle while she swabbed my arm, it was long like I feared. I looked the other way because I didn't want to see her shove all that into me. My heart was racing, but I didn't tense up.
Honest to God, all I felt was her fingers bunching up flesh. I didn't so much as feel the slightest pin prick. I was like "damn! I didn't feel anything!" She didn't put a bandaid on it because I didn't bleed. And so far today I'm not even sore. I'm glad it's over with. I had a bad experience with a penicillin shot in the ass when I was 10 years old. It hurt so bad. That has fueled decades of phobia about shots. The nurse that got me yesterday did a world of good to end that.

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

Author:
Mitch
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Date Posted: Friday, June 24, 2022, 06:34: 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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