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I had my blood taken.
If possible I am going to avoid this particular nurse in future. It really hurt when she removed the needle, and still hurts.
I had to support my arm, with my hand in a pocket, for the walk home.I mentioned it hurt at the time, and she replied that it sometimes does when the needle comes out.
I've not had that with the other nurses. The initial 'scratch' is as bad as it gets. I guess this nurse isn't so good at removing the needle.
Paul always used to grade phleb nurses on whether he felt anything. The ultimate accolade was "you’d make a great veterinary nurse".
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I had my blood taken.
If possible I am going to avoid this particular nurse in future. It really hurt when she removed the needle, and still hurts.
I had to support my arm, with my hand in a pocket, for the walk home.I mentioned it hurt at the time, and she replied that it sometimes does when the needle comes out.
I've not had that with the other nurses. The initial 'scratch' is as bad as it gets. I guess this nurse isn't so good at removing the needle.
@Maker_of_Things The best I had was when I got drafted and the blood sample bus came around, with people who were going around the country sampling blood from several thousand draftees each day.
It was super fast and you barely felt anything at all.
The worst was in a hospital where they put a cannula in my hand and it hurt like hell when it went in and I yelled at the nurse, who just shrugged and told me to stop being a crybaby. When it came out a week later the needle was bent because she had scraped it along my bone going in
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I had my blood taken.
If possible I am going to avoid this particular nurse in future. It really hurt when she removed the needle, and still hurts.
I had to support my arm, with my hand in a pocket, for the walk home.I mentioned it hurt at the time, and she replied that it sometimes does when the needle comes out.
I've not had that with the other nurses. The initial 'scratch' is as bad as it gets. I guess this nurse isn't so good at removing the needle.
@Maker_of_Things I'd let the surgery know, that's awful.
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I had my blood taken.
If possible I am going to avoid this particular nurse in future. It really hurt when she removed the needle, and still hurts.
I had to support my arm, with my hand in a pocket, for the walk home.I mentioned it hurt at the time, and she replied that it sometimes does when the needle comes out.
I've not had that with the other nurses. The initial 'scratch' is as bad as it gets. I guess this nurse isn't so good at removing the needle.
Is there any bruising or swelling? If it’s swelling then let the practice know and keep an eye on it.
Assuming she took it from the veins around the elbow, theres a chance she went too deep and hit the back wall of the vein, and an underlying tendon then bruised it on the way out. All depends on technique and equipment. I could never get the hang of a fixed needle draw but was a deft hand at a butterfly draw, you could be much kinder.
Hope it’s eased now.
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@Maker_of_Things The best I had was when I got drafted and the blood sample bus came around, with people who were going around the country sampling blood from several thousand draftees each day.
It was super fast and you barely felt anything at all.
The worst was in a hospital where they put a cannula in my hand and it hurt like hell when it went in and I yelled at the nurse, who just shrugged and told me to stop being a crybaby. When it came out a week later the needle was bent because she had scraped it along my bone going in
@yngmar
Eeek!
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Is there any bruising or swelling? If it’s swelling then let the practice know and keep an eye on it.
Assuming she took it from the veins around the elbow, theres a chance she went too deep and hit the back wall of the vein, and an underlying tendon then bruised it on the way out. All depends on technique and equipment. I could never get the hang of a fixed needle draw but was a deft hand at a butterfly draw, you could be much kinder.
Hope it’s eased now.
@tempusfelix
Yeah, from my elbow. It is still sore, but getting better. No bruising or bleeding though. -
@Maker_of_Things I'd let the surgery know, that's awful.
@jarkman
I might well do. I've not met this nurse before, so she might be new there. -
@yngmar
Eeek!
That is bad!@Maker_of_Things It sure was memorable!
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@tempusfelix
Yeah, from my elbow. It is still sore, but getting better. No bruising or bleeding though.Good. She may well have been too deep so remember if they’re not urgent, you can often ask for a specific practitioner if your surgery allows it. For example I like the sister at mine, she’s so smooth.
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I had my blood taken.
If possible I am going to avoid this particular nurse in future. It really hurt when she removed the needle, and still hurts.
I had to support my arm, with my hand in a pocket, for the walk home.I mentioned it hurt at the time, and she replied that it sometimes does when the needle comes out.
I've not had that with the other nurses. The initial 'scratch' is as bad as it gets. I guess this nurse isn't so good at removing the needle.
We have been to Northenden to meet the drains chap.
There has been an incident on the M60 near the Eccles Interchange, and the motorway there is closed, possibly until late this afternoon!
Traffic around the whole area is horrendously bad, with stationary traffic stuck on the motorway and clogging up surrounding routes.
We were able to get to Northenden while traffic began to stack up, but getting back took a little longer.
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I had my blood taken.
If possible I am going to avoid this particular nurse in future. It really hurt when she removed the needle, and still hurts.
I had to support my arm, with my hand in a pocket, for the walk home.I mentioned it hurt at the time, and she replied that it sometimes does when the needle comes out.
I've not had that with the other nurses. The initial 'scratch' is as bad as it gets. I guess this nurse isn't so good at removing the needle.
@Maker_of_Things i have ever had pain when needle removed and i have had so many needles i am a human pin cushion
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I had my blood taken.
If possible I am going to avoid this particular nurse in future. It really hurt when she removed the needle, and still hurts.
I had to support my arm, with my hand in a pocket, for the walk home.I mentioned it hurt at the time, and she replied that it sometimes does when the needle comes out.
I've not had that with the other nurses. The initial 'scratch' is as bad as it gets. I guess this nurse isn't so good at removing the needle.
@Maker_of_Things
Speaking as someone who took a lot of blood in his career, and for a while managed phlebotomists and phlebotomy training.... - it will definitely hurt if there's pressure on the puncture site as the needle comes out. This is a very common error. The pressure should be applied immediately after the needle is withdrawn, not before.Paradoxically, smaller gauge needles tend to hurt more than larger needles (green is the usual size, blue is smaller, white is bigger).
It's unusual for Nurses to take blood in primary care these days - it'd either be a Healthcare Assistant or a Phlebotomist.
