I'm fine with giving needles (I'm an emergency medical technician), but I HATE getting them.

My most recent doctor story involves going to my cardiologist for a follow-up appointment. I was recently diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (an extra electrical pathway in my heart makes it occasionally misfire and beat really really fast) and I was just in so he could assess how well my medication is working. NBD. I really hate doctors, though, and I get super nervous, and it always shows - my heart rate and blood pressure always go up when I'm being examined.

I don't like needles, but I can usually get through the whole thing without fainting. It's not the needle or the blood I hate, it's the sight of veins. I can't handle veins. Ever since I saw an episode of, I think Grey's anatomy, when someone's vein burst because he/she laughed too loud or something like that, I get squeamish every time I see swollen veins, or bursting or blood-squirting veins on csi-like shows. They make my knees go weak in a bad way :(

One time though, (This story may be quite gross, just warning you) I had to get a large mole removed from my lower back. It had to be cut off, so the doctor first had to sedate the skin around the mole. So she put in a needle (which hurt quite a lot) and after that she started cutting, but it hurt so much I screamed; It wasn't sedated correctly, apparently. So she put in a needle for the second time. Again, it hurt. She pricked around the mole with something sharp, and asked me if I could feel it this time. I could. So she had to put in a needle for the third time. That one finally worked, and she cut away the mole and closed the wound with stitches. Afterwards she showed me the mole though, which was quite gross and which I really did not want to see. She was way too excited about showing it as well :P

I used to be a blood donator before the piercings and the tattoos.... Now I don't donate but that's because my last time I almost fainted. We would get a free drink, some chips and a sandwhich afterwards but I used to go during the first hours of the day and that time I went until 1pm and I hadn't eaten anything because I had to go in fastening.... It was awful and decided not to do it anymore.

edited; plus, donating blood give one a lot of hunger so I just gained weight over the years of blood donating....

I haven't got a problem with doctors/needles/anything related to that. I'm (luckily) not usually in the doctors, but when I got my jabs, the nurse was trying to hide the needle from me and make my shoulders relaxed. I naturally have quite tight shoulders due to my neck muscles not fully developing, so I spent a good five minutes explaining to her that I wasn't tense! I was quite happy to see the needle, and the nurse said that she once had one girl who ran out of the surgery in a fit of panic, so someone who was fine with it was a relief for her!

I also have just been to the dentist, he was going to numb me so I could get a filling, yet all my other dentists just went for it. In the past, I found the gum injections quite painful, so I requested that he just got straight to drilling! Once again, I was fine, but I have one bit of advice for you; I always gage pain from nothing to a paper cut - this may sound silly, but paper cuts are so sore and continue hurting for days afterwards. So, if you're ever worried about pain, think of the worst pain you've experienced and put it on a scale of 1 to 10 of what you're feeling at the time. Guarantee that by the time it's over you'll have had the injection.

Also, I stapled my thumb once. Don't try it.