Hi honey. Hope you are well♡. I went in for an xray and found out I was pregnant! 5-6 weeks, I dont have an ultrasound or bloodwork for another month. Now, I have tattoos and piercings, but since i was a kid I have an extreme fear of medical needles/shots. On top of that, I have anxiety as well. Do you know of anything I could possibly try or things others have tried to make that part less stressful and scary? Bloodwork and the epidural are the only things I'm really freaking out about so far.
Hey! This is probably too late, but this question is near and dear to my heart, so I’m gonna answer it anyway just in case someone else might wanna read it.
I too have always had a fear of needles/shots. I too also have tattoos and piercings. Go figure.
What I did at first was try not to look, but that actually made me more upset, so instead, I started looking. I watch the needle go into my skin, watch the blood come out, watch the whole process. By the third time, I wasn’t even scared anymore.
As for the epidural - this is what I did. I insisted, for a long time, that I simply wasn’t gonna have one. Uh-uh, not for me. Then, when the time came, I was in labor without the chance of one for thirteen hours since they couldn’t find us a room. By the end, I Did Not Care Anymore.
It fucking hurts, tbh. Like. A lot. So don’t worry about the epidural - you will have a choice to make in the moment, to either do this thing you’re scared of or keep being in the worst pain of your life, so it was pretty easy in the end for me to do it.
Twice. The first one didn’t work, lol.