ouch it really hurts..

Honestly I just only experience having an iv when Im about to give birth last year and I really shouted to the nurse when she inserted it on me cause she does not made it right so she has to repeat it again. I really hate her for doing that to me.

i think it's really scary if you will do that, especially first timers coz we'll never know if they will get it right.. i bet you will have bruises on that practice lol

Yeah I've had it done. I've also had to go the pain of the surses not getting it right the first time. That was painful especially whnd it was at the back of the hand. Does make you feel like a sort of Guinea pig when some of the freshers are trying it on you.

I did experience it when i went for my blood donation and luckily for me, the trainee nurse was quite stable and nothing serious happened to me.. lol But my fren did really suffered alot because his trainee nurse insert the tube into the wrong vain and had to take it out, and it was really painful.. lol =D After which, he carried on with the donation and after 2 days, the whole part of the forearm where the tube is inserted, become swollen and there's a huge bruise patch.. lol =D But luckily for me, it's not really painful and the bruise disappeared after a few days.. hehe

So far so good kaezy_kulet, I never been experience being inserted through intravenous. I know it does hurt, I just experience removing an intravenous line with my patients. I never been confine to hospital, never! because I hate needles, hehehe.... It's easy to introduced injections but when I am the patient, that probably hurts. But I'd like to have an IV therapy certificate too...Happy myLot!

That gives me the heebie jeebies! I would HATE to have someone practice inserting an IV on me, and I think that'd be enough to keep me from going to EMT, nursing, doctor training, whatever. I'm glad you didn't have to go through too much suffering and that she got it right quickly!