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    This is a longish whiney rantish thing... I'm such a baby!!

    Okay, I just got home from the gyno, and I couldn't give any blood for my HIV/syphillis test. They stuck me in my hands and arms 8 times! I HATE needles, but I put up with them for the good of my health. Although, my hands are always ridiculously sweaty during any blood withdrawal -- it's so embarassing how big of a baby I am.

    Doctors/nurses always have a difficult time finding my veins for some reason. I've never EVER been able to give blood through my arms, it always has to be through my hands. Like when I got my wisdom teeth extracted, I told the surgeon, and he didn't listen to me. He stuck the IV in my arm like 3 times before he finally gave up and put it in my hand..

    I'm not sure why it's so difficult, but they weren't successful at all today. They kept putting a needle in a 'big full vein' and nothing.. so they push it around in the vein (ow!), nothing... They told me to go home and eat and drink and come back this afternoon (in case it's because of dehydration). Eeeek, that means more needles!! I HATE NEEDLES!!

    And right now, the little holes look awful. When I get my blood drawn or get a shot, there's always a little red mark, but these marks are bruising badly. I just went into the bank looking like I've got fucking track marks like a heroine junkie!!

    And to top off my lovely morning, I couldn't get my depo shot. I was gonna try it for the first time, and I did talk to my doc about it, but she doesn't want to start me until I'm on my period which is like 2 weeks away ..

    And I can't understand why my blood won't flow for them. When the needle comes out, suddenly I'm bleeding all over the place!

    Hopefully I can give the blood this afternoon. I'm starting to wonder if I was bitten by a vampire or something... why am I all dried up?!

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    HIV tests can be given through an oral swab. They didn't do that?







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    No, they always take my blood. Although it's HIV and syphillis if that has anything to do with it. I'm not sure if there are other factors they were testing for as well.. but they didn't even offer the swab as an option, so I assume there's a reason they wanted to draw blood.

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    I donate plasma twice a week. They usually have a little trouble hitting the vein with me. They told me I just have small veins. With your situation, are you drinking enough water? If you have to give blood or anything like that, drinking a ton of water the day of it should help quite a bit - it'll kind of pump up your veins and make things run more smoothly.

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    ahhhh my love! i would DIE. i would faint, actually. i don't do needles. (HIV tests either.. ive never had one because im scared i know, i know) how about you skip the syphillis test and just get the oral swab for hiv? you could ask your gyno, at least.. that way you could get at least part of it. that is weird though..

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    aww..i'd do it for ya if i could..i love needles!!!

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    Blech my veins hurt now... I've had that happen before, not the not getting any blood thing, but 15 gazillion tries before they hit a vein and then leaving me with just as many ugly bruises. Now I don't let anyone take my blood because I get lightheaded when anyone mentions it. I'd say try what britt244 said, and just get an oral HIV swab, that way at least you'll have that.

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    Okay, so I went back and they tried again. All 10 times nurses were trying, so they finally called a doc over to try it. He couldn't do it either. So they told me there was a more expensive test where they only prick my finger, but they didn't charge me for it cuz they felt so bad. This finger pricking test costed $50 more, but they didn't even tell me about it earlier because the Texas Women's Wellness Program doesn't cover it. But when they finally pricked my finger, I started bleeding all over the place!! So I DO have blood in my body, it just doesn't want to flow out of my veins.
    And I jokingly told them I required a sucker and a sticker for being a good girl and putting up with all their needles. So one of the nurses gave me a sucker, and she drew smiley faces and hearts on all my bandaids in lieu of stickers!! haha
    I guess this ordeal didn't kill me, but it sure exhausted me! Shheeesh.

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