Oh well then! What a pansy!
Frankly, most shoulder joint injections hurt less than flu shots. Which the patient in question did affirm after the needle went in, when he asked when I was going to get around to sticking the needle in.
Hm, I can remember getting some sort of pre-op shot in my ass in 1996 to relax me that left a lump the size of a freaking walnut for almost 3 days that hurt like a sumbitch going in and ached until it reduced. Same op, night before it took the nurse 14 stabs to find liquid blood, she ended up having to use that little light thingy to find a blood vessel that finally gave up enough to type and cross match me. They finally got blood from my inner thigh [I was seriously dehydrated. They hooked me up to an IV before they left. As I have mentioned previously, prepping for anything intestinal is bad - I keep shitting for about a week from what most people shrug off in a day. I had a barium enema on Monday, this was Thursday, operation was for Friday morning.] Looking for blood between the fingers and toes freaking hurts.
When mrAru was doing his ER rotation at Portsmouth Naval Hospital down in Virginia, I stepped on something and cut the hell out of my foot, so I had our roomie drive me to the base ER to get it stitched up and tetanus shots. He so helpfully volunteered me to be a shot giving training aid and I ended up with the full recruit package and overseas package in addition to a tetanus booster. Not only did I hurt everywhere, I had the recruit cruds as my body worked its way through all the immunizations. On the plus side, I could have traveled anywhere for a couple years after that with impunity 
I never found that it was particularly painful getting my wrist tattoo, what bothered me was finding a comfortable sleeping position as that is the arm I tend to use to cradle my head when sleeping.
Added: Being diabetic, I give myself shots all the time, though I now have enough scarring on my abdomen that I don’t use it to give myself shots any longer. I also had been a blood doner for years, so needles pretty much don’t bother me, though I have always been terrified by the idea of amniocentesis, I really don’t want another spinal tab EVER thanks, and I really don’t want any more shots into a joint either!
Blood donation needles seem to hurt like a bitch, but I think part of it is the iodine/betadine/whatever the hell they swab down your arm with.
Which reminds me, working in ophthalmology… we do injections into the eye. (We numb up that part of the eye with a topical anesthetic, and inject into the white - the patient looks away and the doctor comes in from the opposite side.)
I’ve heard multiple times from patients that the most painful/uncomfortable part is the betadine solution that’s used to cleanse and sanitize the area during the prep for the injection. It’s very sting-y. After that, the eye is numbed up enough that many patients are still waiting for the injection even after it’s already over.
curls up on floor
There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a #14 needle and a good strong arm.
I am always nice to people who have sharp pointy objects that they intend to use on me. And yes, I’m almost certain that it was a B12 shot, now that you mention it.
[hijack] If the vet gives me a choice, the cat gets an injection of antibiotic, rather than pills. An injection is quicker than pills or liquid antibiotics, and doesn’t require us to catch that cat a couple of times a day. And the cat KNOWS when we intend to medicate him, too.[/hijack]
This makes me wonder if the good doctor should stock up on candies. I don’t think he’d be allowed to hand out toys in that place.
Rule #6 in my my favorite book.
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I’ve met the author. Nice guy.
Hmm, this is anecdotal but I’m heavily tattooed and when I’ve had to go get blood drawn and after numerous failed attempts to hit (what they thought was a viable
vein) I got tired of the painful stabs and misses and gently asked if I could
Give it a try. After hemming and hawing about being against procedure, they would relent and give me a shot at it. 2 minutes later, blood Flowing like the damn Nile
I should be phlebotomist. Could get blood from a stone.
Real phlebotomists can hit the vein under the tongue, the external jugular, the femoral vein, and the dorsal vein of the penis when they need to. But then so can hard core addicts.
Some addicts just stick a needle into the left ventricle when they really, really, really need a fix.
I honestly couldn’t tell you if the amniocentesis hurt or not. I don’t remember a whole lot of it, 'cause I was a bit distracted when the fetus grabbed the needle! The whole room of residents, students and interns gasped at once, (I was an “interesting case” at a teaching hospital, which means things were scarier than I realized at the time) and the rather startled doctor on the other end of the needle just froze until she let go. 
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She wanted to make sure she wasn’t the one getting a shot?
Now that would be something to have an imaging capture of!
Tats … not teats.
BTW the HPV apparently stings a bit more than others going in but is not much on the sore the next day side like some others are. The odd thing about HPV is a delayed dizzy or even fainting from it up to 15 minutes later.
Speaking of vasectomies and swastikas - what technique did Hitler’s urologist use on his vasectomy?He tied it off it little Nazis.
Shit like this makes me realize that as important as it is for doctors to have lots of smarts, I think it’s just as important (if not more so) that they have strong stomachs!
Evil senses of humour are not strictly necessary, but seem to help 
If you mean a Kenalog injection or something, that’s kind of justifiable (even if it actually hurts less). Reading the OP, I thought you were talking about a stick-and-go vaccine booster or something.
He’s afraid of those too.
In fairness, the master race presumably has natural resistance and doesn’t need immunization.
He looks so masterly in his mug shot, I must admit.