Blood test

[masma]

I had a blood test 18 days ago which left me with very bad bruising, that's gone now but I still have bad pain at the site of the test. I've had many blood tests before and also used to give blood but none of them affected me like this. Should I go to the doc do you think or will it go of it's own accord?

[sqad617]

No, and yes it will go away.

[spookyjoyce]

should go away but try using arnica for the bruising

[Velvetee]

You probably had a not so good "vampire" take the sample. I've had bruising when they can't locate my veins easily and poke around with the needle.

[lovefoolb4u]

Also sometimes if they take the needle out and don't put enough pressure on with the cotton wool, it can cause bruising.

[masma]

Velvetee - you're so right in saying she was a vampire, I had to help her do it so maybe it was parltly my fault!

Spookyjoyce - I'll certainly give the Arnica a try.

Thank you all x

[Bettyboo22]

I had a blood test where they had to take 7 tubes of blood just towards the end I jumped and the needle went deeper into my arm then resufaced at the othr side of my vein,

Yes it hurt

[Naomicorlett]

My MIL had a blood test at Drs and the nurse hurt her so much that she was shaking when she came out and had enormous bruise the next day. I took her straight to the hospital blood clinic for the next one. Smooth as silk and no bruising. Will always use hospital from now on .

[masma]

Mine was done at the hospital by a doctor in A+E. A nurse also took blood from my wrist but that's been fine. Thanks again to you all.

[mallam]

The hospital blood clinic, yes, naomic, but not anywhere else in the hospital! I see masma put you right on that. She also observes that it was a doctor that hurt her, and the nurse didn�t.

And doctors would have the arm off you. At worst nurses are merely incompetent. And I am bound to say that the UK has more than its fair share of "vampires". Phlebotomy must be unbelievably badly taught in this country compared with many others!

If they are terminally incompetent (admittedly often, but by no means always, because your veins have become terminally incompetent), they say they will get a doctor to do it, and you say, �No! Not a doctor! Anyone but a doctor! Anything but a doctor! Can�t you use this corkscrew I had smuggled in with the booze for our midnight party last night?�

It�s not just that the doctors have less practice; it�s that the nurses ask them to take over because �they are more brutal�!

Any comments, sqad? C�mon, you know it�s true!

If this is a real problem for you, masma, you may have to consider dying before actually being admitted to hospital! I am a mass of painful calcified haematomas from galloping flesh-eating thrombophlebitis.

[masma]

I've got really good, prominant veins so there was no need for her to dig around like she did. Hey ho it'll get better soon I guess but in the meantime it blooming well hurts, it'll be 3 weeks on Sunday too! Thanks again everyone for your answers.