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Re: Injections are less painful if you don't look away??
I seem to have blood tests every other week nowadays, and I don't look, but I try to relax as much as possible. I don't think it will ease pain as if I see the needle going in as then I'd expect pain and think more about it.
Still I just wish people were better at taking blood tests as lately it seems like I get 1 good one in about 10. So in my opinion there's too much difference to know if an injection/BT hurts or not (looking at it or not). If done right, you hardly feel a thing anyway, but done bad, you hit the roof and takes a good few days at least for the swelling and pain to die down.
My opinion is all Horlicks whether you look or not. If you look away, you're tensed up waiting for it, looking at it might ease the tension, maybe the expectancy of it, so maybe they think of it that way. As I said, tense up to start with, get the veins pumping, then at the time of the needle, relax the muscles as much as you can would seem to do the same job as looking if that's what they are getting at.
Unless they are putting a needle in the wrist for blood gases, I don't think you can look at it as your head normally is through the ceiling and you can see through the tears.
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Last edited by peanut; 11-02-2011 at 09:23.
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