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Injection anxiety

Somebody stayed on a call with me and I did it

Started 26 May 2024 · 15 replies · 190 hearts · read 1.8k times

GaelanInverurie, UK · 26 May 2024
2.2 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Somebody stayed on a call with me and I did it Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

This started at the same time as two other things, which is why I cannot attribute it to anything with any confidence.

I have read the guide on this and it covered the ordinary version. Mine is not quite the ordinary version and that is why I am asking.

Nobody warned me about this specifically and I am starting to think that is because it is common enough that everybody assumed I knew.

Thanks in advance. Even a one-line "yes, me too" would help more than you would think.

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GwynforLlanidloes, UK
#1

What worked was doing it at the same moment every week rather than at a convenient moment. Deciding when was where the dread lived.

12me too 6

TedIpswich, UK
#2

The bathroom floor is a legitimate venue and I would like that on the record for anybody who thinks they are the only one.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#3

Speaking plainly as a facilitator: none of this is medical advice, none of us is qualified to give any, and that limit is what makes the rest of what we do honest.

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BrodyDunfermline, UK
#4

Gently disagreeing with Esi, or rather adding the other half of it.

Mine got much worse for a fortnight after one that stung, and then went back to baseline. One bad experience can reset the whole thing temporarily.

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SableCape Town, ZA
#5

I found having everything laid out in advance helped enormously. Rummaging for things while working myself up was where it always went badly.

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NadirCasablanca, MA
#6

Thank you for the update. Threads that stop are the worst kind.

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BrackAlnwick, UK
#7

Nadir has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

Somebody here suggested breathing out during rather than holding my breath, and it changed the physical experience noticeably. Very small thing.

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IslaOban, UK
#8

I still do not enjoy it, two years in. I do it in about forty seconds without thinking, and I do not enjoy it, and both of those are true.

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PerrineStrasbourg, FR
#9

That is a very clear way of putting something I have never been able to put clearly.

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CatoAntwerp, BE
#10

Coming back to what Isla wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

The anticipation faded for me at around week ten. Not gradually — I just noticed one week that I had done it without the preceding hour of dread.

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TabbyMargate, UK
#11

Mine is now genuinely uneventful and I remember very clearly that it was not, and I would not want anybody to think it was uneventful from the start.

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#12

Grateful you posted rather than kept it to yourself.

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DelythBala, UK
#13

Gently disagreeing with Tabby, or rather adding the other half of it.

Coming back to say that the dread went. Not immediately, not tidily, but it went, and I have not thought about it in over a year.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#14

Noting for anybody reading later: where the person who asked has come back with what happened, that post is usually worth more than everything offered before it, and it is never the one at the top.

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ZoëHackney, UK
#15

Have you got anyone who can be in the room? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt ridiculous asking, and I would ask sooner if I could do it again.

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