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It is the same for me. If I have blood drawn, it hurts for at least half the day. If I get an injection of any sort, the site is sore for a couple of days. The pain is not at all little, and it stays.

I do get what ChameleonKeys is saying though. There are a lot of worse things than needles and needles are often necessary to prevent those worse things. And anticipatory anxiety can make it more difficult to go through getting a shot, but it's really hard to ignore the pain both during and after. I am sure that if I had to receive shots on a more frequent basis, I would think less about them, but they would still be painful.

Just like I'm hypersensitive to noise, meaning that sounds that are not too loud for other people are really loud for me, I am hypersensitive to pain which makes things actually hurt more for me. I don't ever want to make a big deal about it, but it's the way my brain processes information and I can't really change that. It can be hard at times because so many people think I'm just making a big deal and blowing things out of proportion, but in reality, I'm not.

I've (luckily) never had any problems, and I say luckily because I have a hormone imbalance, and I have to stick myself once per day with a small (insulin-size) needle, and twice per week with a huge horse-size needle (19g x 1.5") . Once in awhile I'll get a bad pain for a few days in the muscle, but I'm so used to it, that it doesn't bother me at all.

Charles

They make me nervous but I always tough it out.

I am fine with the pain and know this every time. I simply get very anxious and tense from anticipation even though I know It won't hurt very badly( for me). I have always been too scared for the look away thing though.

I haven't had too many needles in my life but they never bothered me when they did. Little things like that don't bother me that much pain wise.

I hate needles. I always numb myself if I need a blood test.

I'm a diabetic. I stick my finger almost every day. I don't take insulin, but if I ever have to, I'll deal with it.

No one "likes" needles. But I can deal with them. Maybe it's because of having a summer house in the woods as a kid and getting stung by bees so often.

I am very hypersensitive to pain, and needles hurt me a lot, especially IVs. Whenever I have to get an IV, I ALWAYS feel the needle. Most people only feel it being inserted, but I can feel it in my skin the entire time it's there. I had a kidney stone last summer, which was painful, but certainly not the most excruciating pain I've ever felt. (I also experience pain differently than most people.) In fact, I didn't even cry from the kidney stone pain. What made me cry? When they put in the IV. When I had a surgical procedure this past January, I had a great anesthesiologist who gave me an injection of numbing medication before inserting the IV. That worked wonders and stopped me from "feeling" the IV the whole time I was waiting for surgery. I'm going to ask for this every time I have to get an IV from here on out. The only other thing that I've found stops me from "feeling" the IV is if a children's-sized needle is used. And yes, lots of people think I'm just being a "baby" or something, but I am not. I just experience pain differently than most people, including most Aspies from the sounds of it on this thread.

I don't like them at all but I've got used to them. Just look the other way and stare at a single spot on the wall.

I find them very excruciating, but the pain only lasts for 2 seconds at most, which makes it a lot better.

ive had a lot of injections over my life (and im only 19....) from when i was 9 till i was 14, i had a blood test 2 times a week sometimes, i also had anesthetic injections for operations i had and tests. i even had canula's put in for each of those sometimes in both hands and one uhhh.....in the down there department one time because i couldn't get out of bed for like a week after being sedated for like 8 hours (and being like 10 years old). needles always hurt way more then they said, not to mention my first canula, which the nurse put in wrong, so it bent inside my hand, but all the times they got it right, it still hurt, and all the blood tests and the anesthetics, eventually i switched to using the sleeping gas whenever they did one of those (still bad though, really panicky, oh god thinking about it makes me go light headed and i can taste the cherry flavor they used to add to it again.). needles always hurt more. its a rule of the world really.

to be honest i have a high pain threshold as well, i can literally spill boiling hot water on my chest and it will feel luke warm to me, and not even burn...haha im weird.

EDIT: oh dear lord, i can feel like a ghost form of the canula's in my hands again...eewwwwww. as you can tell i still have a lot of mental scars from that time in my life

I don't find they hurt that much but I'm afraid of them because when I was little, the doctor told me it wouldn't hurt at all. Then it hurt a little bit. I think it was just the shock of it that bothered me, not the pain level. However, I'm more sensitive to needle pain than other types of pain.

Hypersensitivity to pain is possible in autism. People with autism are often either hypo OR hypersensitive to pain. The same goes for the other senses as well.

I find needles to be painful but with me it's not even the pain that's bad, it's just the whole concept alone that makes me want to faint just thinking about it. I actually did faint when I had to get my first blood test, falling head first onto a concrete floor, resulting in injuries to my face. The second blood test I had in my life, they let me lay down after it so that that wouldn't happen again. I find even the thought of needles hideous and I feel squeamish just reading this thread. I've put up with them when I've had to but it's terrorizing to me.