Which is more painful/harder/difficult?

   I agree that there are some nurses who seem to have a particular talent for doing a good and painless job of finding a vein, while others seem to have difficulty, and it hurts. I can't figure out why that is.     Jean

Thanx.  The 25 scalp, I don't use them anymore. After I started with  27 gauge I just could not go back to 25 gauge scalp veins. 


Sajid, try dousing the sticking tape at the swollen area, with a cotton swab soaked with spirit (ethanol). It loosens up the tape. You can then peel it off, without added discomfort.
 Elementary, my dear Watson   

It does lead to all sorts of shenanigans as I attempt to run interference on transfusion days to buy time until one of the nurses she prefers is manning the needle room. Just wondering if others had encountered a similar thing?

Yes, that is very familiar and has happened a lot with me too.  As a kid I would not even want anyone else to touch my hands (to check for the veins), but the same person who started my IV , each time....and would totally stress if I did not get them.  The one that I depended most on, I still remember her name (though she is no more now), Faria aunty. 

We develop a rapport with the same special nurses , since the transfusions are a regular requirement. 
Def. some nurses seem to have a magic touch and gentle hands,  and will  never hurt or bruise you. 
        

 Shilpa

Sajid, try dousing the sticking tape at the swollen area, with a cotton swab soaked with spirit (ethanol). It loosens up the tape. You can then peel it off, without added discomfort.
 Elementary, my dear Watson   

The tape I use for Desferal is water proof plastic-based with pores. However I do remember back in Saudi Arab that some Nurses did use spirit to remove the cotton based plaster tape after the transfusion as they used to admit us for a day and the whole thing had to taped up to my hand with a cardboard support.

Ahh.. Childhood memories! How they haunt back the visions of crying in pain plus seeing my mom cry along me

I hate putting a needle in myself. When my mom used to do it, I was cool with it.

But it is very strange doing it on me myself



I dont know why, but the best thing I know is the needle when I am having a transfusion.

I love it. The more pain, the better

Maybe because the needle is so big and I dont se it a lot, only when getting transfusions.


The funniest thing is, when they have tried both hands and they cant find a veine and they look at me, with a sorry face saying: "Oh well, lucky number 3 right... but where should we put it?"

Haha, I am  inside about the stressed faces while they come up with strange places to put the needle. Haha


There is one thing I hate though. It is when they want to put the needle in the upperside of the arm. My skin is very thick there and the needle will bend before it can come through. Also, they cant find the veine because they have no control over it.


Until we meet again needle, SAYONNARA

Wow Kochi,
                You enjoy the needles at Tx! You are one tough dude!
Stay strong

Hehe, tnx m8

U should have one more option :- None of the above.

Coz from mixing the desferal to pricking and till taping I dont feel it is painful or hard and difficult.

somebody ask me same quistion one day i told him the first enjiction i prebare it for my son abdulwahab all my body was shaking and my tears covered my eyes (how come i put a needle in his stomach) he is my son it's not only painful or harder or difficult it's bad dream ... dosn't mater long needle or short butterfly or thalaset by I.V or by stomach this child am his father i brought him to this life me and his mother i can't leave him like this so i have to stay with this bad dream intel we find a salotion ..
            that was my answer
                                    GOD BLESS ALL

Yes, we are all waiting for the time when Exjade and other oral chelators are easily available to everyone.

I'd have to say that pricking the needle is the most painful part of doing Desferal. I would spend so much time looking for a "sweet spot" to prick the needle, but the spot ends up being a lumpy one and I'd end up crying. Okay I'm kidding about the part about crying, but yeah...ouch!

 :veilpricking  needles is more painful than other thing but i  have a solution to it .i use a cream for lumps and hardness of the skin  by the name of SILVEREX (silver sulfadiazine and chlorhexidine gluconate cream) thou this cream is available in india  only. but u can use any other cream with the same chemical compsition :wave