Are you scared of needles?

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Are you scared of needles in general like having blood drawn or getting shots?

I'm mostly "scared" of the person behind the needle.

Only of needless ones.

Sort of. So I became a blood donor. Because masochism is the new sexy.

I'm not scared of doctor's needles.

But I'm really scared of dentist's needles.

i always get my blood drawn from my hands. the closer a needle gets to my core, the less i like it. it's like being invaded.

Not especially.

I normally don't mind needles but have had some anxiety having my blood drawn sometimes and I don't know why. The needle doesn't really bother me, but I guess maybe its just going a while without having it done makes me forget its really not that bad. I am accustom to hospital stays and have a long medical history for reasons I suppose I'll keep private but I am sure a few of you already know. So when I am in that zone of being hospitalized every other week, I get used to hospital scene, including getting blood drawn. Its only when I go a few months without doing it that makes me nervous.

Oh what the hell, I'll mention why I got hospitalized so much. I am ex drug user but I have been clean for a while and don't plan on relapsing. If anyone judges me for the past, they can get lost.

I avoid doctors and dentists.
As a child I had a bid hurting wrat on my left ball of foot.
I operated it out with a scissor myself, needed a couple attempts but I got it out, it was bleeding like hell.
But it never came back.
But I have put acupuncture needles into my own body myself to release physical pain.
Like Fnord wrote I am not afraid of needles but the person behind thus I avoid the person behind but put my own needles when necessary or perform my own minor operations.

Yes, well sort of. Not needles in themselves but seeing or feeling a needle go into my skin or worse, directly in a vain and taking blood is unbearable to me. It will either make me faint or wriggle around uncontrollably. It's a horrific sensation I get all over my body.

No, not at all.

... Yes.

the anticipation of the needle is scary because i dont know whats going to happen but once the needles in i dont mind. sometimes i get a bit dizzy but if i were to get a blood test right now or a vaccination it wouldnt bother me so much.

No, but I don't like it. Especially an IV which goes across the arm instead of straight down.

Some years back I'd faint giving blood. I could look at the needle, see it going in and it wouldn't bother me emotionally at all. But still my body would react very strongly. I'd start to sweat, get nauseous...it just felt like my body was reacting to being invaded somehow. And then I'd get light-headed and just...check out. No meditation I could do helped because in my head I really didn't think or feel like it bothered me emotionally. Then around seven years ago I had to start giving myself a weekly injection. With a big, long needle. At first it was so bad I'd sit on the floor or couch to do it so that when I was finished I could just lie down on the floor in a cold sweat with the room spinning, hoping I didn't vomit. Ten or twenty minutes later I'd feel wiped out but better. Same thing happened when I had to do blood tests, at first. But over time it lessened. And now it's a complete non-event. Clearly desensitization, but to what, I wonder? So much of my childhood is blocked in my memory & my folks won't talk about it or claim to not remember...