Me too! I fainted after my BCG infront of the year below who were queuing ready for theirs (somehow i was ill the year before?!) Although i thought polio was the one on the sugar cube? Combined with my haemophobia and emetophobia I'm a bit of a doctor/dentists nightmare!
I had a similar situation with my BGC - I've always wondered in my case if it was a tonic-clonic seizure as I had my first one a few months earlier (my GP at the time said it was a virus) but I wasn't properly diagnosed for another 3 years which then makes me think that as I went 3 years between episodes without medication, why am I having them between 3 and 18 months (ATM, it's just over 4) apart on medication?
Thats the only jab i was 'ok' with. But the girl i fancied at the time was going mad, she was screaming, crying and was fighting the nurse. So i just said get it done because i wanted to help her out. So they did it, and i went and gave her a hug and held her hand through it. The worst for me was my tetanus booster a few years ago as i saw the needle sitting on the desk and went crazy. Even typing this i can feel the pricks in my arms. All of this from one bad tempered nurse who tried to take a blood sample when i was a tot and rammed the needle into a bone in my hand.
gotta say, needles and such don't bother me...i'm a blood donor so it's just as well...but friendly banter punches on the arm after a jab can quite ouchie!
I had managed to go through life without a blood test ever until I came here. Having been sent off to the local lab I was quite interested in what would come out of the arm. I thought it looked a nice healthy colour, so remarked to the technician, "Oh good, pure Bordeaux" in my best French. Unfortunately my humour and his were not quite on the same wavelength. Once I had explained to him in increasingly desperate French that it was a joke, he got with it, then told me in good English that not many people made a joke about it.
that makes me feel funny reading it. But at least you have a reason to be scared. I was fine with the meningitis one, it was the BCG that got me. But rather than kicking up a fuss I go really really quiet and pretend I'm ok and then find myself coming round with loads of people around me and my friend laughing at me (yes I'm scarred for life - although not visably as I didn't even get the BCG scar to prove it!)
Aww Betty. Its no laughing matter, its a serious fear!! I cant find the scar from the BCG, i had it before, but have lost it now lol.
Got injured, fouled , landed awkwardly on my calf. can't walk. got a lift from a PE teacher to the station though
I am lucky that this semester i dont have exams, only assignments. I have just over half of one done, started another one and have 2 more to do.
After what happened on Sunday, I'm not going to mention how long I've gone without seizures on here again.
It says may help to keep people slim. Does that mean you have to be slim before you start eating chocolate? If so I'm buggered already.
