Passed out this morning
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at the doctor's office with a needle in my arm. Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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at the doctor's office with a needle in my arm. Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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at the doctor's office with a needle in my arm. Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
Slacker007 wrote:
Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Isn't that a contradiction? I had blood work done a few weeks ago and I wasn't supposed to eat anything before my appointment. Not very fun when they stick you 3 times before they are actually able to get any blood.
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at the doctor's office with a needle in my arm. Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
At least you pass out. The last time I did a major blood donation (medical research involving white cells; spent three hours with two tubes connected to a separator) I had basal reaction: broke out in a sweat, blood pressure drop, sever nausea, and all before they connected the second tube. Darn near puked all over the floor. Oddly enough, the staff were quite familiar with the situation :rolleyes: and got me calmed down and connected.
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Slacker007 wrote:
Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Isn't that a contradiction? I had blood work done a few weeks ago and I wasn't supposed to eat anything before my appointment. Not very fun when they stick you 3 times before they are actually able to get any blood.
It depends on why they are drawing blood. I was in a vaccine study some years ago and was getting drained every two weeks for three months. I was advised to eat a light snack about an hour before my appointments, and was offered a box of raisins right after.
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at the doctor's office with a needle in my arm. Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
Better in the office than in the parking lot... Ok, well, technically it was on the concrete sidewalk... Temporary short-term amnesia isn't nearly as much fun as in the movies... Though it's quite amusing to joke about afterwards. (No, I'm not kidding... But it was something like 15 years ago)
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Slacker007 wrote:
Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Isn't that a contradiction? I had blood work done a few weeks ago and I wasn't supposed to eat anything before my appointment. Not very fun when they stick you 3 times before they are actually able to get any blood.
rwinte wrote:
Isn't that a contradiction?
Don't know if I read your post correctly but I am diabetic and I had to fast. I didn't eat a very big meal the night before and I got my blood work done 2 hours after I normally eat breakfast. The nurse said that I passed out while they were drawing the last vial. This normally doesn't happen to me but still quite a morning adventure. Gregory's story below has now scarred me for life. :)
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Wuss.
Well at least I don't try to backup computer files when the building is burning down. :laugh: :laugh: ;P
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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at the doctor's office with a needle in my arm. Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
Can I suggest that you peruse this (and I thought my typing was bad. Sheeeesh!)[^] as I thought your title showed promise but the rest of your lyrics rather let it down. Seriously, I hope you are recovered now.
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Can I suggest that you peruse this (and I thought my typing was bad. Sheeeesh!)[^] as I thought your title showed promise but the rest of your lyrics rather let it down. Seriously, I hope you are recovered now.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
as I thought your title showed promise but the rest of your lyrics rather let it down.
:-D
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Wuss.
Well at least I don't try to backup computer files when the building is burning down. :laugh: :laugh: ;P
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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rwinte wrote:
Isn't that a contradiction?
Don't know if I read your post correctly but I am diabetic and I had to fast. I didn't eat a very big meal the night before and I got my blood work done 2 hours after I normally eat breakfast. The nurse said that I passed out while they were drawing the last vial. This normally doesn't happen to me but still quite a morning adventure. Gregory's story below has now scarred me for life. :)
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
Slacker007 wrote:
Gregory's story below has now scarred me for life.
You're welcome. :rolleyes: I really don't know what happened that time; when I was in a vaccine study, they were drawing almost half a pint every couple of weeks, and I'm also diabetic so I test several times a day. I am not squeamish when it comes to blood, but the idea of being hooked up to a large machine for several hours panicked some primitive part of my brain and my body followed suit.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I was only joking.
I know but it was the first, really bad come back, I had to your Wuss the Puss comment. :-D
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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at the doctor's office with a needle in my arm. Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
When I go for a blood draw I tell them I occasionally pass out, they then will lay me down first. The problem usually happens after the draw, when my arm is in the air. I use to donate blood every couple of months. The time before the total would be two gallons I passed out. Next time 60 days later fine, for my two gallon pin. Then passed out on the next pint 60 days later. They politely asked me not to give again. :)
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at the doctor's office with a needle in my arm. Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
I know it is counter-intuitive but if you watch the blood being taken it tends to minimize the pain/distress - if this is what is causing you to pass out...
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Wuss.
Not sure 'bout that. My FIL was in Normandy considerably before D-Day, and has a chestfull of gongs, and several scars, to prove it. He ain't no wuss! However, he still damn near faints at the sight of a hypodermic syringe coming his way.
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at the doctor's office with a needle in my arm. Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
Happened to me once. Pro-tip: Don't watch your blood coming out of your arm and filling the vial. I remember they took the blood, I stood up, the nurse looked suddenly worried and asked me if I felt ok. I think I said something and she advised me to sit back down. Next thing I know they are suddenly about 6 people in the room all staring at me with concerned looks. The most embarrassing part was they made me lay down on one of those doctor office bed things for a while before they'd let me go. Meanwhile, they bring in the next person for a blood draw who looked like she must be well into her 70's. She, of course, had no problem whatsoever.
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I know it is counter-intuitive but if you watch the blood being taken it tends to minimize the pain/distress - if this is what is causing you to pass out...
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
Interesting. Whenever I watched someone try and stick me as a kid the result tended to be multiple jabs and an irate doc because at least one expensive dose of vaccine was squirted out onto the floor. Once it's in I'm completely fine, even if it's one of the torture instruments they jammed into the bone before operating on an ingrown toenail.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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I know it is counter-intuitive but if you watch the blood being taken it tends to minimize the pain/distress - if this is what is causing you to pass out...
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)