Seeing someone inject

[Killa_ken]

Id rather see them do that than drop dead personally. Seeing someone die is one of lifes worst experiences, even if you dont know the person in question.

I think perhaps they should do it in a toilet just in case they do offend but personally it wouldnt bother me.

What this guy said really, when I was about 13 my family where on holiday in san Fransisco, my dad sent me and my younger brother down to the Macdonald's because we kept nagging him for a burger.

Anyway there where two homeless people shouting at each other so we walked as far away as we could from them and into McDonald's. When we came out the first thing we saw was one of them smash the other guys head in the door frame and he just dropped dead.

Me and my brother refused to leave the hotel for the rest of the holiday.

Saw something similar in dubai when i was 17, a guy had jumped out of the window and blood was every where.

 

[Minstadave]

I think its just common courtesy to go and do it in a bathroom. I'm not personally offended, but I'm phobic, and the chance is that I might pass out if they "catch me an awares".

And minstadave, it's not as simple as "have it treated"

And its not as simple as being able to go find a bathroom every time you need to inject. There's far more diabetics than people with significant needle phobias.

 

[touch]

I suffer from a needle phobia, well any sharp object really.

I also have a phobia of needles, i'v been physically sick every time iv ever had an injection. And its not just a sharp object phobia, i went for an operation last year and was terrified of the general anisthetic injection, but not too bothered about the thought of a scalpel up my nose .

If i see someone injecting in public it makes me feel sick/dizzy but i understand why they are doing it and am just glad that i dont have to.

 

[Raz]

If it bothers you I think you need to remind yourself how lucky you are to not be in the same position!!

Actually, I don't think the OP said it bothered him (if you are referring to him specifically).

Perhaps it's just manners or common courtesy? I mean when you're with your family or friends fair enough, but out in a public place?

But...I don't really mind anyway. Can't remember anyone actually doing it in front of me (out somewhere) but even if they did then it wouldn't really bother me.

 

[Lowra]

No diabetic is gonna die from not taking an injection. Not uless theyre never taking any.

this isn't about the ins and outs of diabetes, this shouldn't be medical at all.

I have it, and i inject in my belly when ever i need to. If i'm eating lunch on the bus, train or in a park i will inject and have never thought twice about it. Until i got a very ignorant reaction and was told not to do that. I didn't think it was offensive, to me it is just like sneezing... i just do it, and don't think about it. I don't flash it about coz its easy to be discreet.

I have never experienced people thinking it's wrong before tho.

 

[MasterMike]

Why would that bother you?

 

[divine`]

Having never seen a diabetic inject, how big is the needle?

Is it like a full on huge hypodermic or is it a tiny little discreet thing? I'm guessing the latter.

 

[Raz]

No diabetic is gonna die from not taking an injection. Not uless theyre never taking any.

this isn't about the ins and outs of diabetes, this shouldn't be medical at all.

I have it, and i inject in my belly when ever i need to. If i'm eating lunch on the bus, train or in a park i will inject and have never thought twice about it. Until i got a very ignorant reaction and was told not to do that. I didn't think it was offensive, to me it is just like sneezing... i just do it, and don't think about it. I don't flash it about coz its easy to be discreet.

I have never experienced people thinking it's wrong before tho.

If you have to do it then you have to do it.

People don't see it everyday or aren't 'exposed' to it regularly, but I guess it one of those things that people would accept as 'normal' as time goes by.

or something...

 

[Minstadave]

Having never seen a diabetic inject, how big is the needle?

Is it like a full on huge hypodermic or is it a tiny little discreet thing? I'm guessing the latter.

Its tiny, about 1.5cm long ish at most, and very fine.

 

[Macca]

Why should we have to go into a bathroom or hide somewhere to do it? I used to think like that when i first started injecting, but it made me hate having to do it.

But it's not like it's a big needle and your shooting up in your arm, it's an 8mm needle in your belly/leg and it's easy to be discreet about it. It's true missing an injection isn't going to kill you but it won't make you feel great having high sugar.

 

[Macca]

Having never seen a diabetic inject, how big is the needle?

Is it like a full on huge hypodermic or is it a tiny little discreet thing? I'm guessing the latter.

Needles come in sizes 6mm, 8mm, and 12mm as far as i'm aware, i use 8mm.

 

[Lowra]

Also, going to the bathroom to inject (like i was told to do on the train) is hardly hygenic. Public tolets are usually pretty grotty.

 

[Minstadave]

This is what most diabetics use, hardly offensive.

Hope that pic doesn't cause too much bother for the needle phobics.

 

[divine`]

Its tiny, about 1.5cm long ish, and very fine.

:/

How could anyone possibly find that offensive?

This is what most diabetics use, hardly offensive.

Hope that pic doesn't cause too much bother for the needle phobics.

...though that looks a damn sight bigger, I could see how that might upset someone who had a needle phobia.

 

[Lowra]

:/

How could anyone possibly find that offensive?

shall i stick it in you

 

[Supercow]

:/

How could anyone possibly find that offensive?




...though that looks a damn sight bigger, I could see how that might upset someone who had a needle phobia.

Phobias are irrational by definition, and all phobics know this.

 

[Minstadave]

...though that looks a damn sight bigger, I could see how that might upset someone who had a needle phobia.

It's tiny! You could barely see the needle from a few feet away, all you can see is the pen.

 

[Lowra]

Phobias are irrational by definition, and all phobics know this.

becomeing diabetic cured my phobia of spiders, i had a low bloodsugar (makes you go kinda drunkish) and picked one up. I don't mind them anymore

 

[divine`]

It's tiny! You could barely see the needle from a few feet away, all you can see is the pen.

The 'pen' is still part of the needle though, makes no difference how long the stabby bit at the end of it is.

I'm fairly sure people with the needle phobia aren't purely averse to the tiny sliver of metal and entirely cool with the giant syringe hanging off the end of it.

 

[Macca]

becomeing diabetic cured my phobia of spiders, i had a low bloodsugar (makes you go kinda drunkish) and picked one up. I don't mind them anymore

Becoming diabetic cured my fear of needles .. i used to hate getting blood taken at doctor/hospital, injection at dentist or an injection of any sort. But now it doesn't bother me one little bit After the first injection i was fine, just seemed like nothing anymore.