A dislike of others giving me an injection.

"You can't be scared of an injection, you do them every day!"


Yes I do, and you just hit the nail on the head by saying "YOU do them". I am scared of going for other injections because it's usually me who does them, not someone else, the minute someone else comes towards me with a big needle is the minute I start to panic.


And I can't watch them do it either, the nurse was having a good laugh at me about this the other day, she was giving me a HPV and a flu jab, one in each arm, and I was tense, I wouldn't watch her and I cringed at the sound of the stuff going in. She was laughing, but told me it's something she finds a lot with diabetics.


The thing is, I'm a paradox anyway. I am scared of needles (I've learnt to do my injections without actually looking at the point when it punctures my skin, that's the bit I don't like because it makes me feel queasy). I am also scared of blood, this coming from a girl who was going into hospital on a weekly basis a couple of years ago in order to have blood taken from me, and from someone who tests her blood sugar (on average) 4 times a day. 


A non diabetic informed me the other day that she could never be diabetic because she is scared of needles and scared of blood, I asked her then how she thought I did it, and more importantly, why she thought I did it. 


The point is, if you were starving hungry but really really couldn't stand pasta, but the only thing to eat was pasta and nothing else, are you going to starve or are you going to eat what you dislike? I know what I'd do, but then that's just me. And this is a little more drastic I guess, would you rather try and ignore your fears of needles and live, or are you going to continue to be scared of them and avoid them and run the risk of an early death? 


Sorry it is blunt, but I can think of no other way to put it.


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