D-LOGAN wrote:I'm not! .... Although oddly enough I do donate blood so ... I'm not sure what that's about. Meh, I'm a mercurial fellow.
You're aware that you're supposed to donate
your own blood right?
Though seriously, I haven't donated blood yet. Tried trice.
First time I didn't know about the needle pricking my finger and freaked out, to the point I got light-headed. (There's not a lot of nerves in my elbow pit but there are plenty in my fingertips.)
Second time I knew in advance how much the manual cuff they use hurts compared to an automatic cuff, and because I'm fat they had to try three times before they got an accurate reading (apparently manual cuffs don't just hurt more, they also don't work well on fat people), by which point I had a too-high blood pressure reading.
I always have a normal blood pressure at the doctor's office, and did again the next time I had an automatic cuff measurement, so apparently being cuffed thrice with a manual cuff freaks me out enough to raise my blood pressure into the "too high" range, and unless I can either get over the anticipated pain or find a blood bank that uses automatic cuffs, I likely won't be able to donate blood for the foreseeable future.