"This won't hurt... Now, on three. One.. two.." OW "three"

Manic Moran

Back in March 2001, I received a small yellow card. On it, the Army, in its wisdom, decided to record all the shots I have received.

Now, I know there were some I've received which haven't been listed, because I could never find my childhood record from Ireland. I think TB may have been on there, I recall a Polio cube, I do recall Japanese Encephilitis and Hep B from a trip to Korea.

It's a fold-out card.. with lots of room for all the shots. As of this week, I'm on my second card now. In the last seven years, so, I have received:

Flu x4*
Meningitis x1
PPD x3
Polio x1
Tetanus/Diptheria
Mumps/Rubella
Typhoid x2
Hepititis A x3
Anthrax x4
Smallpox x1
Hepititis B x2
I'm scheduled Anthrax #5 next month, and am not counting blood tests. (Those Anthrax ones really hurt. Smallpox is just disturbing)

I really dislike needles. And I really dislike those people giving me the vaccinations who enjoy their job, taking bets on whether or not I'll faint. Be sombre and morose, this is a serious thing here!

Now watch, as I'm cut down in the prime of my youth by the one thing they failed to include in their cocktail considerations. Or get hit by a truck.

My heart goes out to the diabetics out there. And I really can't understand the people who voluntarily get stuck with needles, including tattoo types.

NTM

*Flu #3 was a bit different. The medics handed us all our syringes ahead of time, sort of a 'meet your executioner' deal. As I'm idly waiting my place in line, I'm reading the label, and it says "For intranasal application only." This disturbs me: The only translation I can come up with is "They're going to stick this needle up your nose, and squeeze the plunger"
It was about ten uncomfortable minutes before they revealed that the thing was a nasal spray.

Queen-Mise

Can that be described as torture, i wonder:pac:

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I would like to thank you for that great post, I really did laugh quite a bit. Poor fellow. I didn't realise joining the army involved sooo many injections. Have you served over seas much?

Victor

How many of them were you realisticly at risk from?

In adulthood, I've had:

Flu x 1 - was a bit bloodier than I expected.

Tetanus x 2 - sore the second time (then again the first one I got, I'd been hit by a car, so may not have recognised the pain at the time).

Post kidney stone "give me the ****ing painkiller now" painkillers x 2 (within minutes of eash other).

Lot of samples. Some recent ones where the 7-month pregnant phlebotomist had me make a fist and then pressed her bump up against it. I was almost crying because of that bit.

Mark200

The only shots I've ever had were those ones you get in primary school. Besides that, the only time I've had a needle in me was last Wednesday when I gave blood.

Kiera

PM me to teach you how to count back-wards.

Caoimhín

x3 injections into my spine.
x1 injection into the base of my skull via the back of my neck.
x1 injection into my bladder via, ahem, my mickey.

Kiera

Kiera wrote: »

PM me to teach you how to count back-wards.

he doesn't want to count backwards..

brianthebard

Why do you need a polio or smallpox vaccine? And do ye get a sopir sekrit army flu vaccine? Cause I read an article in the guardian a whle ago that said its of little benefit.

TequilaMockingBird

Every month - 4eva - in my ass.

I used to get my sister to do it (the doctor showed her how) but she used to lep around the room cringing waving the needle shouting "EEEEWWW!!!" while I was bent over the kitchen counter waiting.

I go to the surgery now. Its less traumatic

Nodin

Manic Moran wrote: »

Japanese Encephilitis

First symptoms - a headache, then a craving for raw fish with a tart sauce...

wyndham

You forgot about all those hot beef injections you have had.:pac:

Jack Sheehan

The insulin needles for diabetics are really tiny though. What really kills are the constant pricks for the blood test. As many as 5 a day on your fingers again and again and again and again and again...

anti-venom

No yellow fever vaccine? I'd have thought that would be a priority for the army who serve in Africa?

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

As far as I remember NTM is in the United States Army, not the PDF.

Parsley

Caoimhín wrote: »

x3 injections into my spine.
x1 injection into the base of my skull via the back of my neck.
x1 injection into my bladder via, ahem, my mickey.

Sweet dear jebus. WHY?! :eek:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The question now is: how often, say since adulthood began, have you actually been sick?

robinph

I never used to have a problem with getting vaccinations or other people sticking me with needles in the hospital when needed. Since I've given myself 20,000+ injections though (rough guestimate), and a mere 1800+ more each and every year, I cannot stand it when nurses come near me with needles as they are mere amatures now.

As said, it is actually the blood test finger prickers that are the biggest pain/ annoyance of being diabetic though.

Sofaspud

I hate injections, haven't been to a dentist for years despite dental problems, dealt with an ingrown toenail for about 3 years because I couldn't stand the thought of having a needle put in my toe.

Yet I love being tattooed and getting pierced.

ejmaztec

I predict toxic mutants taking over the world, or at least auditioning for Pinhead in a continuation of the Hellraiser movies.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

brianthebard wrote: »

Why do you need a polio or smallpox vaccine? And do ye get a sopir sekrit army flu vaccine? Cause I read an article in the guardian a whle ago that said its of little benefit.

Well smallpox is still dangerious, if you spend time in another country where you may catch it, then you will get the "jab" for it.

Most of this would be for over seas duties, like in chad and the likes. You know?

Statso

Sylvia Echoing Art wrote: »

Well smallpox is still dangerious, if you spend time in another country where you may catch it, then you will get the "jab" for it.

Most of this would be for over seas duties, like in chad and the likes. You know?

Emm isn't Smallpox the only disease in the world thats been totally eradicated?

Worst injection i ever got was one to the base of my spine. Damn that was sore.

monkeyfudge

Statso wrote: »

Emm isn't Smallpox the only disease in the world thats been totally eradicated?

Yeah, since the 70s. I'm guessing he must have got the inoculation for small pox some time ago. The military probably were still administering it well into the 80s.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Yea it was eradicated in december of 1979... What if it comes back though? Like it is a virus, what if it's living under a rock somewhere? Just waiting for some poor militant to walk by and BANG, he gets bit by the little smallpox virus thingy... Now if he has the injection he is sorted... right?

Ah I am not sure when the last time anyone got any injections for smallpox but I am sure they kept the vacinations going for some time after, just in case

brianthebard

Its more likely they are vaccinated against smallpox in case the US decides to bomb a nation with the disease and then send in its troops.

Victor

Smallpox has been retained by a number of countries, on the face of it so they can maintain vaccines, but it could also be used as a weapon.

Manic Moran

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Yeah, since the 70s. I'm guessing he must have got the inoculation for small pox some time ago.

Actually, I got it in 2004. The concern, as with the Anthrax shots, was to protect against biological weapons. They're still standard issue before going abroad.

I don't know about the Irish, but the US Army is paranoid about shots. I didn't go on the Hurricane Katrina relief mission, but those that went got a whole battery of shots before combing through the floodwaters.

NTM

tony1kenobi

Manic Moran wrote: »

Flu x4*
Meningitis x1
PPD x3
Polio x1
Tetanus/Diptheria
Mumps/Rubella
Typhoid x2
Hepititis A x3
Anthrax x4
Smallpox x1
Hepititis B x2

You really get a lot of pricks in the army.

Overheal

Manic Moran wrote: »

Back in March 2001, I received a small yellow card. On it, the Army, in its wisdom, decided to record all the shots I have received.

Now, I know there were some I've received which haven't been listed, because I could never find my childhood record from Ireland. I think TB may have been on there, I recall a Polio cube, I do recall Japanese Encephilitis and Hep B from a trip to Korea.

It's a fold-out card.. with lots of room for all the shots. As of this week, I'm on my second card now. In the last seven years, so, I have received:

Flu x4*
Meningitis x1
PPD x3
Polio x1
Tetanus/Diptheria
Mumps/Rubella
Typhoid x2
Hepititis A x3
Anthrax x4
Smallpox x1
Hepititis B x2
I'm scheduled Anthrax #5 next month, and am not counting blood tests. (Those Anthrax ones really hurt. Smallpox is just disturbing)

I really dislike needles. And I really dislike those people giving me the vaccinations who enjoy their job, taking bets on whether or not I'll faint. Be sombre and morose, this is a serious thing here!

Now watch, as I'm cut down in the prime of my youth by the one thing they failed to include in their cocktail considerations. Or get hit by a truck.

My heart goes out to the diabetics out there. And I really can't understand the people who voluntarily get stuck with needles, including tattoo types.

NTM

*Flu #3 was a bit different. The medics handed us all our syringes ahead of time, sort of a 'meet your executioner' deal. As I'm idly waiting my place in line, I'm reading the label, and it says "For intranasal application only." This disturbs me: The only translation I can come up with is "They're going to stick this needle up your nose, and squeeze the plunger"
It was about ten uncomfortable minutes before they revealed that the thing was a nasal spray.

........Are you Lord Nurgle, The Great Unclean One?

Manic Moran

Overheal wrote: »

........Are you Lord Nurgle, The Great Unclean One?

I'd be executed by my own commissar. What else would a Guardsman play but Guard?

NTM

slimjimmc

Sofaspud wrote: »

I hate injections, haven't been to a dentist for years despite dental problems, dealt with an ingrown toenail for about 3 years because I couldn't stand the thought of having a needle put in my toe.

Yet I love being tattooed and getting pierced.

Wah? you needed a jab for an ingrown toe-nail?? When I was kid the doc just stuck the scissors in and snipped off a good chunk of toe-nail. No anesthetic, no injections, no whiskey, just a pat on the head and a lollipop. We were tough 8 yrs old back then.

Overheal

I wouldnt mind a dentist injection at all. You have to realise its an anasthetic theyre juicing you with. it stings for half a second then its such ahhhhhh. Unlike that one crazy dentist I had, no needle or explaination, just tried to go right into my mouth with a pair of pliers. Needless to say I kept the crooked tooth for years till it fell out, and now my jaw is totally out of alignment. it was worth it.