On 9/23/2015 11:20 AM, Muggles wrote:
On 9/23/2015 11:24 AM, Don Y wrote:
On 9/23/2015 8:18 AM, bob_villa wrote:
On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 10:10:03 AM UTC-5, Don Y wrote:

You can drink a quart or more at a time -- and *never* have to pee!
(scary
sensation -- where the hell is all this water GOING??)

After you donate blood you are supposed to re-hydrate on fluids...it
doesn't
seem to work for me...I still end up urinating a lot?

In my case, it's usually the other problem: forgetting to hydrate
BEFORE a blood draw! As I primarily drink tea, this tends to
leave me less hydrated than if I drank *water* (tea is a diuretic).

Couple that with the occasional (crap! I can never get the spelling
right on that word!) incompetent phlebotomist that likes to "go
fishing" for a vein and it can make for a really unpleasant experience!

And, if the MD opts for a blood test on the spur of the moment, rushing
off to the water fountain just doesn't work fast enough to spare you
the discomfort of that "fishing expedition"! :

[OTOH, I gotta give these folks credit -- no way in hell I'd be comfortable
sticking a needle in someone else's arm... WHILE they are watching!!]

It's a rare occasion if they can draw blood from me the first time they
try. I always tell them ahead of time that my veins roll, and they most
likely will need to use a small butterfly needle to hit a vein.

If I know they will be drawing blood, I'll drink plenty of fluids
and be properly hydrated *before* going to the office/lab. It's
the "spur of the moment" sort of tests that usually result
in the fishing expeditions ("Gee, we haven't done a CBC in 3 years!
Why don't we get that, today?")

They've had to double tie the tourniquet, use heat packs on my arms, use
blood pressure cuffs, and beat my arm where they want to get a vein, and
dig for the elusive thing. Still they may have to do 2 or 3 tries. I
just look away each time they try and when they ask "does it hurt?" I
wince and say "YES!"

Yeah, amusing that they somehow think you are *comfortable* with their
"fishing"!

"Does this hurt" is almost an oxymoron!