Nervous about doctors?

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Even though I'm an adult now, there are times when I still feel just a tiny bit nervous about going to see a doctor. I think that some of this might stem from a few negative experiences that I had when I was young...

The one that stands out in my memory as the most vivid was when I was about four or five, and went to see an eye doctor... I was in the waiting room with my mom, and all of a sudden the eye dr. came in, and had me lie down on a bench of some sort. I saw him aiming for my eyes with an eye drop dispenser, and when I started to get scared and struggle, my mom held me down there. I tried to close my eyes as tight as they would go, but it was too late...the eye drops were in...they stung and all I could see was WHITE...I was screaming from the pain, and the Dr. and my mom were both shouting at me...*Shudder* NO ONE forewarned me that I was to be tortured in this way, and NO ONE made any effort to make sure I was comfortable and felt secure. Argh.

Another time was when I was having my finger stuck for a blood draw by a nurse during a checkup...I was about 9 then. My finger really hurt, and I was scared...and the nurse told me, "What are YOU huffing and puffing for? I'm the one doing all the hard work." Yeah, and I bet she was loving every minute.

I also hated getting a throat culture when I had strep throat...I used to get strep ALL the dang time when I was a kid (but after I had gallbladder surgery at age 13, I never had it again), and whenever I came in to see the doctor with it, and I KNEW what it was, they couldn't just take my word for it...oh, nooooo...they had to stick a cottom swab down my throat until I felt like gagging or throwing up.
Once when I was about to have a throat culture done, I asked the doctor I was seeing, "What if it makes me throw up?" He replied, "Well, then, I'll be sure and move out of the way."

Don't get me wrong, I know there are some really good doctors, but in my experience, a lot of them seem to not really give much thought to the emotional/psychological well - being of their patients as long as they get the job done.

Anyone else ever have similar experiences when they were kids?...you don't have to talk about them in much detail if they're really hard to talk about...I was just wondering if anyone feels the same way.

Jeeze, the doctors you've been to are asses.

I've had very similar experiences with doctors... so that's part of the reason I've avoided seeing one for over 2 years.

I am afraid of doctors, nurses, alien autopsers, and anyone else who wishes to do things to my corporeality, usually without telling me what the things are or what the things are for.

My worst medical experience was my eye inflammation in 2003, when I had to go to the emergency room, then stay at the hospital, for the worst eye inflammation evar, according to the eye surgeon, who became so obsessed with my eye inflammation that he assembled a team of specialists to study my eye inflammation with the goal, stated to me by them, of publishing a scientific article about my eye inflammation.

I didn't like being treated as a guinea human to be probed instead of a patient to be helped.

Fortunately, my parents found a different eye doctor, one more interested in helping than probing, at an eye clinic within the hospital complex, and he treated my eye inflammation immediately and effectively, such that I recovered my vision within hours of the treatment.