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Avatar m tn I think your fear of needles is complicated by HIV anxiety. I found that to be fairly obvious when you purchased two brand new, unopened and sterile syringes, but STILL had a fear they may be contaminated. This goes a bit beyond a simple phobia about syringes and enters an area of irrational/obsessive thinking. What you were doing, I believe, was an attempt, and a courageous one, of exploring what is known as "exposure therapy.
Avatar f tn if you have unprotected penetrative vaginal or anal sex or sharing of drug needles. Hiv is inactivated by air and saliva. Every time you have a fear of HIV, remember that. It should alleviate the worry. If you didn't do these things, you aren't going to get HIV.
Avatar f tn I have had OCD since I can remember. I now have developed a phobia of needles. I work in a health care setting (hospital) where shots are given daily. Although I am not the one giving the shots, I still feel fear everyday that I will come across a needle and accidently get poked by it and get an infectious disease of some sort. I have tried talking to my family and friends about this phobia amongst other mental health issues but they don't seem to understand.
Avatar m tn As the others have said, you have no risk. If you're unable to do your job as a result of your irrational phobia of HIV, you need to speak to your supervisor about being reassigned to a position in which you won't be around patients or needles because you're likely to make a mistake due to your phobia.
Avatar f tn I first have to ask why someone with an "extreme HIV phobia" would work in a lab such as you do. I have an extreme fear of snakes and they couldn't pay me enough to work around the things. I also can't understand how someone in your position in not one of the most highly qualifed people to know how difficult it is to actually contrract HIV. You say that you always wear the correct protective gear while working with these specimens.
Avatar f tn One last question, by sharing needles, what u meant is only IV needle with a barrel or any kind of needles such like sewing needles?? I know I seem to hav OCD and I sometime worries about being pricked by people with sewing needle with infected blood on. I promise this will be my last question and thank u guys so much for your patience!!
Avatar m tn For the past 5 years I have been dodging doctors to the best of my ability due to a fear of needles / medical procedures. In addition there is a deep fear of simply finding out "somethings wrong". I already know I have high blood pressure which I do my best to control with diet and exercise but I still need help. I had a doctor for 10 years that I called my primary care physician but really only saw him a handful of times.
Avatar n tn i have a phobia of hiv/aids which i think has been brought on by OCD because i never used 2 be scared of it, im in constant fear of blood and people throwing it at me on the street and also people always having blood on them. i know this all sounds really stupid but i just cant help it. it used to be finding plasters and needles everywhere but that stopped and now this has started. so if anyone can help me it would really be much appriciated.
Avatar m tn last year I got a bad sore throat which took few days 4-5 days which cured but not 100% and came back with sinus infection less than a month later (I had history sinusitis since high school) which after 5 days of treatment got cured, later on i recognize my Sub-mental glands were swelling (I thought it might be cancer or sth else,) then I got a small case of tonsillitis that doctors said because its nothing because of my tonsils shape it would get infected by piece of food that stock there etc.
Avatar n tn My main objective is to give you some insight into your chronic phobia of the dark. The fear of the dark is a very valid phobia to begin with and could branch into many other more specific phobias, such as nyctophobia, the fear of the darkness and the main one I wish to talk to you about now. Nyctophobia is any fear of darkness and it does not have to be chronic. It is usually caused by a magnification of the brain's natural perception of what could happen in a dark environment.
Avatar m tn As anxious said, only unprotected vaginal or anal sex or sharing of IV drug needles will transmit it to adults. Touching vaginal fluid poses no risk.
Avatar f tn Then we tried fertility treatments, and that involves lots of blood draws and injections, and of course insemination, which began a fear of HIV and pregnancy by someone other than my husband. I like to blame it on the Lyme doing something to my brain. I had always had somewhat of an issue with anxiety, but nothing like what the OCD was. I finally sought cognitive behavioral therapy and reluctantly started medication. I have seen big improvements since when I first had OCD.
847195 tn?1296171647 You have a terrible fear for needles or needle phobia called Trypanophobia. Cognitive behavior therapy and systemic desensitization towards the object you fear will have to be carried out by a psychotherapist for curing this. Take care!
1142899 tn?1261154753 s soon, take a deep breath and tell them about your past experience, your anxiety, your fear of needles and the fear you have that if you have a panic attack in front of them, they will not handle it with the same method as your other moronic doctor did. I think if you lay all your cards on the table before the exam even begins, that you will be pleased with the results. Let us know how it works out, OK?
Avatar f tn Exactly, I have an extreme phobia for HIV. At the same time, I cannot even resist myself from having sex. But I never have penetrative sex only handjob and insertive oral. Thanks for your answer.
14533124 tn?1435025441 Hi my name is Amy and iam 38 years old and i have the same fear of bad storms matter of fact that might be severe weather where I live the bad part is I live in a trailer and whin the weather say it might be severe I freak out I try to tell my brother and my sister in-law thatiam really scared my brother tells me to not be scared and my sister in-law tells me to grow up what do I do not to be so scared
Avatar f tn Now the situation which created trauma or anxiety to me ,I told the lab assistant that i had a kind of phobia about Hiv kindly took procedure accordingly.she took the needle and i stopped her whether she changed it or not on this she gavr me the entire lot of needle and ask me to choose one and reopen it . I did the same .but still i had a fear wheather the same needle used or by mistake she used the hiv patient needle. Although she inserted it in my vain and receive the blood.
Avatar f tn , cups, paper, sticks, trash, etc, but I have fear of it being a needle. The funny thing is, most of the time, I never review the photos; I guess just knowing I have them brings me relief. Before, I was even using a picker to pick things up off the ground, which I would store in the trunk of my car; however, I've pretty much gotten past that. It has come to the point that my condition is impacting my relationship.
Avatar m tn Im almost 15 and I have a fear of hiv, i am acting like a retard, im not touching anything, im making my parents crazy and i cant have a normal life. i don't know what to do.
Avatar m tn I have put my self in another danger again, I shared a bottle of drink with a friend, I was terrified when I saw blood on his lower lip and he said he sustained an injury from a fight with his girlfriend, my fear is that some of his blood must have touched the bottle while he was drinking from the bottle and I also put my mouth in that same bottle yo drink from. What are my chances if he has HIV......
Avatar f tn Team, Goodday to all, today I my office, one customer just came to the back of my shoulder and touched me, but I felt pain like something pocked with needle. Suddenly I turned back I did not see any needle. If he has inserted needle in my shoulder, can I get infected by HIV virus. I heard hiv don’t survive outside.
Avatar m tn She is friend of mine and coworker of my mother in the hospital..it is almost two years now when our company kicked her husband in our company and last new year she requested blanket for her and his husband as a gift from me and my brother..my brother and i goes to her for blood extraction..every three months we are checking our blood...
Avatar f tn I have had my first antinatal appoitment (im 10 weeks) and have been told to book a blood test. I have done this but i have the worst phobia of needles.