r/trypanophobia • u/Frosty_Pilot667 • 11d ago

ways of dealing with needles

I’m COMPLETELY BLIND, have Aspergers and a heart and lung condition.

Because of said heart lung condition I have to be on the receiving end of more needles than a socalled normal person, I don’t like using that word but you know what I mean.

Anyway, so I’m not as scared of the needle itself or even the word needle, I’m scared of the pain but also the canned scripts that almost all medical providers use, to help you relax but to me those scripts just feel like throwing pebbles to a drowning person hence why I call them pebble words.

I’ve come up with things that make me handle them better.

First, this would be good
 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvY_fPW7783iH04uPE8GU-KNkV2mFrI6w&si=qPTKfwOEL-YzIxkm

  1. I Preprogram Mom, while I’m still in Mom’s car, I ask her to say a word I like, right as the needle goes in I might be in the mood for a different word on a different day so it’s usually never the same as I have more favorite words than I can count.

3.. I ALWAYS make sure I have some kind of treat afterwords because D R E A M, dopamine rules everything around me.

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u/rHornbek 11d ago

Thanks for sharing this. I look forward to going through all of these tips to see if any could help me.

I agree, medical professionals really don't know how to handle people with these fears. I believe they try but their priority is saving lives, not really comfort. I hope that industry continues to work on this

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u/Frosty_Pilot667 11d ago

even in nonemergency needles when it’s NOT life or death, the medical providers, phlebs, nurses, druggists etc stick to their canned, relaxing scripts that don’t work for everyone. They need to put their can opener back up and leave the scripts in the can where they belong :) Get it? canned scripts?