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Yasiris1105 · April 2013

Do you look when you get blood work or with any kind of needles?

mnewlee · April 2013

Nope! Absolutely not. Veins freak me out.

Yasiris1105 · April 2013

I don't. I hate needles. I'm not THAT scared of them anymore but I still hate them so I don't look when I get pinched. I even when I'm looking away I still close my eyes :P

Ms5586 · April 2013

I think I usually look away, it's a pain management thing I guess.

SusieBW · April 2013

Yes, always.

When I had my wrist surgeries, I asked them to not hang that little curtain so that I could watch that, too. They wouldn't let me, and I'm pretty sure I was unconscious for most of it anyway.

Tulips114 · April 2013

I do. It doesn't bother me at all.

GingerNess · April 2013

Yes it doesn't bother me. Now, if they miss and have to move it around...then I look away...definitely can't take that.

T&HLove · April 2013

I look away so I don't tense up... But watching doesn't bother me either. Even as a kid, I wasn't really afraid of needles

Pips09 · April 2013

I have to look away and do deep breaths.

hypotheticalme · April 2013

MRoss1982:
I look away until I'm poked, then I watch the tube fill up with blood. I have no idea why.

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roxpink · April 2013

MRoss1982:
I look away until I'm poked, then I watch the tube fill up with blood. I have no idea why.

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aveeh · April 2013

I don't watch the initial poke, but then will watch the rest. I think it helps my anxiety if I can't see it, but then once it is in I realize it isn't so bad.

womancake · April 2013

Nope. It's not the pain that bothers me, because it really doesn't hurt that much. It just freaks me out. I don't know why.

MsCrispy · April 2013

I usually look away while the needle goes in, then look back and watch the blood come out. I try to relax as much as possible and I am more likely to tense up if I am watching a needle go into me.

shelley1002 · April 2013

MRoss1982:
I look away until I'm poked, then I watch the tube fill up with blood. I have no idea why.

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alli&dan · April 2013

Hell to the no! I've passed out several times when getting blood drawn. I have no idea why. It doesn't hurt. Something about it just makes me woozy. I usually ask to lay down and then look away.

ldcoffel · April 2013

Yes, I always look.

manda26 · April 2013

generally no. But if I give blood I will look after the needle is in to see it going through the tube into the bag.

CMheart1011 · April 2013

Nope! Sometimes I will glance over after the stick, sometimes not.

hoot179 · April 2013

I never look, I try to.stay relaxed because it hurts less when I do so. I will never look because when I was in the er for the miscarriage last month, the nurse opened my artery instead of vein to take blood. h said it squirt straight up and that would ha

casey820 · April 2013

I definitely look to make sure they aren't doing something wrong. I once gave blood at the Red Cross and the person did temporary nerve damage to my arm.

Besides I start IVs at work all the time so it doesn't bother me at all.