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12. Yeah, it still hurts when I touch it or bump it. When I was 11 I was in the hospital for

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #11)

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 01:11 PM

Oct 2012

a few weeks.

One of the first nights I was there I woke up screaming in pain. I looked at my arm and it was 4 times its normal size. The needle had exited the vein and the fluid had been dripping all night into my arm. The nurse came in and fixed thing up and and slipped me some sleeping pills, assuring me that the fluid would be absorbed overnight.

No results yet. I am betting midweek next week at the earliest.

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Went in for part 2 of my heart test. Did not go as planned. :^( [View all] GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 OP

Let's hope the end result is good. Denninmi Oct 2012 #1

It was not fun. Thank you for the good wishes. I hope they come true. :^) GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #6

I'm sorry to hear it. Bertha Venation Oct 2012 #2

Thanks, Bertha. It was the only reason I could come up with for going down like that. Normally, GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #4

Years ago at a work sponsored blood drive one of the guys just passed out and started flopping CBGLuthier Oct 2012 #3

Yeah, I bet! I was pretty embarassed about passing out. I don't usually do that. :^( GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #5

My husband got thrown out of a blood drive once csziggy Oct 2012 #17

At least it wasn't like when I did the stress test. hobbit709 Oct 2012 #7

Holy cow! You are lucky you didn't stroke out or something! GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #8

I think that's pretty common Major Nikon Oct 2012 #9

Very unpleasant, for sure! GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #10

Well fortunately it was the procedure that went amiss and not the results! Was worried there. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #11

Yeah, it still hurts when I touch it or bump it. When I was 11 I was in the hospital for GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #12

If they don't get the drip right on a sub-c, you're going to swell up. That's part of why I have... HopeHoops Oct 2012 #13

If I didn't change meds so often, I would do that for my med list. GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #14

PM on the way... HopeHoops Oct 2012 #16

I have had patients 'pass out' on me while drawing their blood. Avalux Oct 2012 #15

Thanks! Yeah, If it hadn't hurt I probably wouldn't have flashed back to that other experience. I GreenPartyVoter Oct 2012 #18