Health: Today, I went to the hospital due to vomiting and abdominal pain,...

By Anonymous - 27/06/2014 17:32 - Japan - Yokohama

Today, I went to the hospital due to vomiting and abdominal pain, and they decided to fit me with an IV drip. It took several tries by two different people to get the cannula in. I feel like a human pin-cushion. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/09/2022 11:30

Today, I was stuck in the ICU with my 10 month-old. They spent more than an hour and multiple pricks to get a vein for cannula. I had to endure and hold him down through all of it. Half and hour later, he promptly smeared poop all over his cannula bandage area during a diaper change. FML

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By Equi - 12/12/2018 16:00 - United States

Today, I went to the company's health clinic to treat muscle spasms and a possible cracked rib. In the process the old quack doc and overly eager nurses wound up giving me a storng laxative and 3 enemas, two of them quite large. Then I still had to return to work. FML

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By pincushion - 31/12/2015 05:47 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I had a CT scan done with contrast. My tech seemed competent in his job so I wasn't nervous, until he tried to start my IV. It took him 3 attempts to get it right. Not only was I stuck 3 times, he also blew one of my veins. I now have severely bruised arms and what look like track marks. FML

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By Anonymous - 09/06/2022 10:00

Today, I spent several hours sitting in the ER hyperventilating from pain and passing out, due to a herniated disc in my back. I had to watch at least 5 people go ahead of me, whose only complaints was that their stomach hurt or they felt nauseous. One of these people had a bag of snacks with them. FML

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By Leo - 23/07/2023 12:00

Today, after suffering probably my worst night of appendicitis, which consisted of vomiting, diarrhea, and going to the doctor, starving, only to find out a couple of hours later in the hospital ER that I'm allergic to penicillin and close to dying. Again. FML

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By CysterGurl - 18/07/2022 10:00

Today, I got a bartholin cyst drained. The doctor told me to keep it clean and dry, no pain meds given, just swelling and a catheter. I almost passed out a short while afterwards so I went to the ER. Now I’m drugged up and sitting in one spot for the next few days. FML

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By Anonymous - 24/06/2019 12:00

Today, I needed to get blood drawn. Apparently, my veins are too thin and no blood would flow into the tube. I'm afraid of needles, and was just poked with some unsuccessfully, and I have to go back next week to try again. FML

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By anon - 11/05/2009 20:37 - United States

Today, I got my wisdom teeth out. Due to the drugs they gave me I felt nauseous. When I went to the bathroom as a precaution I did not throw up. Instead I passed out face first in the toilet. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/05/2009 04:19 - United States

Today, I decided to give blood for the second time. I felt excrutiating pain when she stuck the needle in my arm. Another nurse came running over in a panic. Apparently my inexperienced nurse had put it in my tendon instead of my vein. FML

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By Shock - 21/03/2016 20:12 - United States - Littleton

Today, while working for a hospital security company, I had to assist in restraining a male patient while the nurses put a catheter in him. All I will say is that it looked like a worm trying to swallow a straw. FML

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Saturday 28 June 2014 1:33

To be honest, I'm not sure there are many people that do like needles...

shudson186 17

Saturday 28 June 2014 1:33

As a nurse OP, we try to get it done as fast as we can. It sucks and sometimes we can't find a good vein to work with, but we aren't purposely trying to hurt you. Stay strong OP you can do it!

Comments

MrCantgetright 4

Saturday 28 June 2014 15:21

if a few pricks make you feel like a pin cushion pray you never need a EMG.

goat12 3

Saturday 28 June 2014 16:09

haha try needing an iv to get a MRI. it took 8 nurses 4 doctors and the anesthesiologist to get the iv in. I was the human pin cushion.

thesinginguy 18

Saturday 28 June 2014 16:39

I'm pretty sure it's not a cannula? I think. Isn't a cannula the thing that they put in your nose to breathe? If someone knows please correct me.

thesinginguy 18

Saturday 28 June 2014 16:41

Oh Nevermind. Seems I was half right. I guess the little IV tube and the nose tubes are both cannulas.

random_jay 6

Monday 30 June 2014 4:35

Most people call the IV a catheter

blondie107 20

Saturday 28 June 2014 17:20

I had to get an arterial blood has done with a 1.5 inch needle. Took them eleven times to actually get it in correctly in my wrist, elbow and eventually, groin. I'm a pincushion

kimmy7770 10

Saturday 28 June 2014 19:08

I was in hospital one time and was severely dehydrated due to vomiting. The doctor was struggling to get my IV in so asked for help. I had 2 doctors, 2 nurses and a student doctor, one at each limb and one at my stomach all sticking needles into me at the same time. It was horrible.