How do you feel about getting shots?

I get em all.

It’s for the good of the cause.

I always was good about getting shots. Never cried, doctors use to comment about it. I am not excited about getting a shot in terms of putting a new drug in my body, that I have become more and more wary about as I have gotten older.

I don’t get “excited,” but I don’t mind it at all. It’s not a big deal.

Hey, I finally got my H1N1 shot last Friday, and I couldn’t have been happier. I don’t usually mind the shots, and sort of look forward to it (much like you).
Still haven’t gotten my kids’ shots though! Argghhh!

I feel that they hurt. I still remember getting two shots in my thighs and one bubble-type shot in my arm when I was five. It was traumatizing.
When I get vaccines, they always hit my humerus with the needle even when I advise them that I’m not as fat as I look. I hate dealing with idiots.

I don’t really care for them, but I don’t look foward to them either. I think I need my flu shot since I haven’t gotten it yet. It’s the second time this month I have gotten sick.

I still don’t really like receiving them. I always get nervous beforehand and I always think it’s going to hurt more than it actually does. Still, it’s not that big of a deal and I don’t have a real fear of needles. But I do kind of have a fear of blood, so getting blood drawn kinda freaks me out.

I got a little freaked out by vaccines in general because in 2007, I had three vaccines in a row (two of which were Varicella) and right after I left the clinic, I came very close to fainting (I started losing my vision and my hearing and my mom told me my face was white), only I had no idea what was going on, but I knew it was because of the vaccines. I didn’t actually faint, but I came very close to it and it was the scariest moment of my life. Apparently it was because I hadn’t eaten anything all day.

I got the H1N1 vaccine two days ago. No side effects except the typical sore arm.

I liked getting school-officiated hepatitis shots in sixth grade because we got M&Ms to bite during it, stickers after, and juice and muffins and a half-hour rest time to recover.

I’m terrified of needles. I can’t stand getting any sort of vaccine. Especially the ones that go deeper, like the tetanus. They leave giant ball like bruises on my arm, and it hurts to move for weeks.
I’m quite okay with getting blood drawn though. Those needles don’t even phase me.

I do remember, once when I was getting a vaccine as a child, the nurse told me to just look straight ahead and not look at the needle. There was a full sized mirror right in front of us. That didn’t help.

I love needles. I donated blood just last week, the nurse told me to look away when she was about to put the needle in. Instead, I got closer to the needle. She had to tell me to give her space. I never looked away.

I had my swine flu shot about a month ago and lived to tell the tale!

Not my favorite thing, but there are lots worse to endure.

As a kid I used to love getting allergy shots, because my old (very old) doctor would always give me the syringe he used (minus the needle, of course) to take home with me. I had quite the collection! I still don’t mind getting shots, but I wouldn’t say I love it now that I’m an adult. Maybe it’s because no one ever gives me the syringe anymore. :(

I used to HATE them and kick, scream, wail, cry…and say that I’d rather get (insert illness here, polio, measles, small pox, whatever) than get stabbed with a needle.

Now I’m really good about them. I’ve been to places like India so I’ve had some shots for things that people normally don’t get unless they travel a lot, like typhoid fever. I’ve also had the meningitis shot (required as a freshman here or else they won’t give a room key!) and my Gardisal shot for HPV.

haven’t had the h1n1 shot though. I may just pass on it this year. It already went through my campus and no one is really sick anymore. I already have my seasonal though.

@augustlan

That’s awesome that your doctor would do that! :D Probably would have made it a lot easier as a kid for me if my dr did that…

I have a healthy and thriving fear of needles. It developed after I started having to get cortisone shots through scar tissue into my subtalur joint in my foot. When the first one came out bent after he missed the joint, hit bone, dug around, and finally got it in, a tolerance for shots and needles died in me. Through several surgeries and shots since, I freak out when I have to deal with needles, albeit silently and in my own head.

They don’t bother me much. I got H1N1 6 days ago… I massaged it in well and barely felt sore. No side effects.

I’m not scared of needles, I guess having all that dental work as a teen helped remove that fear. although the ‘hard stick’ of a needle being forced through the roof of my mouth or the muscles in my jaws is something I am glad to never deal with again but I do hate it when medics constantly blow veins trying to set an IV. The last time I ended up with five big fat bruises on both arms.

I told the last guy that tried to stick me that day, that if he didn’t ‘get it right’ the fifth time, they were done. If he wanted blood, he’d have to make an incision and let me bleed into a cup. He smiled, but I didn’t, as I was frigging serious.

I do call the people that take blood ‘vampires’ and of course they hate hearing it. You will probably not be surprised to hear that I am a lousy patient.

Nothing special. Routine.

I’m non-pulsed about getting shots but I love having blood drawn. It’s so fascinating to me. A little tube filled with ‘me’. Fascinating!

I don’t feel anything about it. It’s just a shot.

After watching a 6 inch needle going into your skin, and come out in the other side of big open wound in your leg, you tend to stop caring about a small shot. I’m guessing at least one or two people passed out while reading this, to them I apologize.

@gemiwing I assume you meant to say “nonplussed.” Sadly, did you not only spell the word wrong, but your usage was totally incorrect. In context, you seemingly meant to convey that you are unaffected or not bothered by shots. Nonplussed means confused or bewildered.
That is all.

@Psychedelic_Zebra I had needles or whatever they were pushed through the roof of my mouth. I was young and I can’t for the life of me remember what dental procedure they were doing. I know they did it on both sides, and it being quite painful.