I went in for a tetanus shot this morning. I figured since we’re restoring the house and dealing with many rusty nails, it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Now I’m not a wimp when it comes to pain and blood (I’ve been stuck/probed 6 times by some idiot who couldn’t find the vein in my arm), but I HATE NEEDLES! I hate that the nurse/doctor has to stick this sharp, thin piece of metal in my body and keep it there while they inject medicine or draw blood. I always have trepidation when the doctor or dentist takes out that syringe. It makes my heart beat a little faster.
Why do we still have needles anyway? Aren’t needles outdated?
I understand if you are really, really sick, they need to stick you with an IV for fluids. But why do shots still exist? What happened to that futuristic vision of those vaccine “guns” which shoot the medicine through your skin? What about “the patch” can’t I get medicine into my body by absorbing it through some patch? Can’t I just swallow a pill? Why do you have to stick a needle in me?
> Other shots don’t bother me either, the needle just sticks a little
> under my skin and barely into my muscle halfway down my upper arm–that’s
> the triceps. The shot itself just stings when it goes in, when the needle
> comes out I hardly feel a thing.
> The tetanus shot hurts so much because the doctor told me she had to stick
> the tetanus needle really deep into my muscle, and I feel the stick all the
> way in for the few seconds it takes to go into my muscle. Usually the
> tetanus needle goes in two-thirds of the way up by my shoulder–that’s as
> far as I.ve been able to roll my sleeve up. The other day I wore a racer
> back tank, and my arm was so sleeveless, the doctor took advantage and stuck
> the tetanus needle in way up high by my shoulder. She said it went in my
> right deltoid muscle, that’s the muscle I need for all my basic arm
> movements, oooo! She didn’t give me a chance to say I.m right handed,
> usually they do and give the tetanus in my left arm. Actually the tetanus
> needle didn.t hurt that much, it just felt like a sharp stick for a few
> seconds, and I thought I.d gotten off easy. Then the doctor pushed down on
> the syringe, and that’s when I knew it was a tetanus. My muscle really
> tigthened up as the tetanus pushed in, and even when the needle was out, I
> still felt a tight bruisy feeling where the doctor put the tetanus in.
> She told me next time she’d have me let me arm hang down loose by my side so
> my muscle’s relaxed, cuz she says tetanus goes in real easy then–hah! When
> I got the tetanus needle the other day the doctor told me to put my right
> hand on my hip, but in that position my deltoid muscle’s all tight for the
> tetanus. Argh!
> Oh well that’s it, it’s over now. I just don’t want a tetanus shot for at
> least ten years! And I don’t know about wearing a tank for a tetanus, if
> they’re gonna give the needle in the deltoid muscle so high up by my
> shoulder!
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> > Aren’t tetanus shots the worse?? I had a couple of shots when my son was
> > born and they didn’t hurt near as much.
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> > I had to get a tetanus shot the other day. I wore a really cool racer
> back
> > tank to stay comfortable. The doctor stuck the tetanus needle straight
> down
> > deep into my sleeveless right arm up high by my shoulder. The needle just
> > felt a bit sticky going in. Then she pushed down on the syringe and
> > suddenly I felt this really deep tight muscly ache up by my shoulder as
> the tetanus went in. She told me to relax–yeah right!–but my muscle always
> > tightens up for the tetanus. My arm ached for three days. Am I glad
> > tetanus is good for ten years! I just wore tank tops for a few days, so I
> > wouldn’t have to hassle getting my arm in and out of a sleeve. Thank
> > goodness for tank tops!
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I just got a tetanus shot two days ago. The actual shot was fine, I didn’t feel a thing, but now theres a bump on my arm about 2 inches in diameter. Hurts like hell.
I got a tetanus shot at the doctor office the other day he said I was due for one and the nurse gave it to me in the arm and it hurt alot. Thought I wasn’t going to get a shot but I thought wrong