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Originally Posted by Ashartus
Yeah that can be frustrating. My veins aren't even that hard to find, but they're towards the side and not in the middle. Last week the tech starts looking in the middle of my arm, I tell her there's no vein there. She insists there is and that it will hurt less than the vein to the side, jabs me and starts digging around. Sure enough nothing there and it starts to get pretty painful before she finally gives up and goes for the one I told her to in the first place.
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I have taken regularly and so I'm really, really used to it and the nurses always say that my veins are easy to find but you always get the occasional one who has trouble.
I am really easy-going as a patient, calm and everything. I only really ask for one thing from the Nurse.
"If you miss the vein, take the needle out and try again. Please do not jiggle the needle while its in my arm."
Its like they dont understand how much that hurts.