She tapped it (first), but… I honestly couldn’t tell you, I’m afraid. 😑
Dumb thing, but… I really don’t like needles, and never have (though I’m slowly getting more used to it, what with the whole… possible MS), so I didn’t actually watch it go in. Sorry…
I can tell you that it was… Middling painful, and didn’t really leave much of a mark.
They were so fucking stingy they refused to give me a patch to cover it, though. You know, like any NORMAL immunization clinic would? Fucking slack. So yeah, little bit of blood, but all I got was 20 seconds of cotton wool, and then pretty much told to suck it up, lol… 🙄
Dunno if that helps answer your question? But yeah, didn’t seem to hit a vein or anything, so that’s… Good, I guess?
I was taught to aspirate in school, but no longer do because "the science changed".
Tbf, I was happy to drop it. It seemed theoretical and pointless and just prolonged the painful part and risked someone pulling away from you and fucking things up, especially in children.
Cheers bruh. And yeah, that experience was, umm, absolutely fucking awful, I have to say... And exceptionally humiliating. Yup, no needle in my arm could be worse than that, I would've thought...
Even the overnight cannula!
Honestly worth it though, if it means I can fucking kick this MS shit in the butt, before it proceeds further (I suppose, anyway), so thanks, very much!
If not, eh, fingers crossed for some sort of Paralympic career, eventually, lol...
She tapped it (first), but… I honestly couldn’t tell you, I’m afraid. 😑
Dumb thing, but… I really don’t like needles, and never have (though I’m slowly getting more used to it, what with the whole… possible MS), so I didn’t actually watch it go in. Sorry…
I can tell you that it was… Middling painful, and didn’t really leave much of a mark.
They were so fucking stingy they refused to give me a patch to cover it, though. You know, like any NORMAL immunization clinic would? Fucking slack. So yeah, little bit of blood, but all I got was 20 seconds of cotton wool, and then pretty much told to suck it up, lol… 🙄
Dunno if that helps answer your question? But yeah, didn’t seem to hit a vein or anything, so that’s… Good, I guess?
Sounds like she didn’t aspirate it - she just YOLO’d in there and hoped for the best.
Aspirate is when they pull back on the needle after it is inserted in your arm to test :
if they see blood coming into the needle=it is very bad as they hit one of your blood vessels
if they don’t see blood = it means they put the needle into the muscle and avoided the blood vessels = good = go ahead and inject the vaxx
Can confirm.
I was taught to aspirate in school, but no longer do because "the science changed".
Tbf, I was happy to drop it. It seemed theoretical and pointless and just prolonged the painful part and risked someone pulling away from you and fucking things up, especially in children.
Cheers bruh. And yeah, that experience was, umm, absolutely fucking awful, I have to say... And exceptionally humiliating. Yup, no needle in my arm could be worse than that, I would've thought... Even the overnight cannula!
Honestly worth it though, if it means I can fucking kick this MS shit in the butt, before it proceeds further (I suppose, anyway), so thanks, very much!
If not, eh, fingers crossed for some sort of Paralympic career, eventually, lol...