<p>does it hurt like a normal shot?</p>
<p>i hate getting all this crap done, but it’s cool i guess.</p>
<p>… so how much does it hurt?</p>
<p>does it hurt like a normal shot?</p>
<p>i hate getting all this crap done, but it’s cool i guess.</p>
<p>… so how much does it hurt?</p>
<p>it’s gross…they inject this liquid into your skin and it makes a bump and stays there for a couple hours/days. It doesn’t hurt <em>too</em> much…just try to think of something else when you’re getting it done. :D</p>
<p>it burns a little for a few seconds - but your skin bubbles up, which is kind of cool, in a freaky sick way</p>
<p>ah crap this is gonna suck. i hope i dont get a false positive. now that would suck. ithe other shots i’ve had kinda hurt but they are fine cause i just dont look.</p>
<p>Take a deep breath, close your eyes, you will feel alittle pinch, then some slight burning and it will be done</p>
<p>just got off the phone w/ a friend and he said that the tetanus shot hurt more. so, i think i was freaking out too early. :P</p>
<p>should be pretty chill</p>
<p>TB shots are nothing. Although I used to volunteer at a nursing home and a crazy nurse had to administer the TB shot to me. She stuck the needle in too deep and lifted it up which separated my skin from my muscle. Yea. That wasn’t fun at all. I almost fainted. So TB shots are great unless they are being administered by psychotic nurses. Tetanus shots are a different story. God I hate needles.</p>
<p>A good way to deal with needles is to focus on breathing. It makes it painless and makes you less nervous.</p>
<p>yea shots aren’t bad. i like getting them cause i can see how hardcore i am.</p>
<p>well, anyway, it’s not really a tb shot… it looks like it barely goes in.</p>
<p>There’s always a chance of getting false positives. In that case, they send you to get a chest x-ray (the foolproof method). </p>
<p>It’s unlikely you’ll have TB.</p>
<p>Make sure to get your meningitis shot, though. You can’t go to school until you get that.</p>
<p>You won’t necessarily get a bump.</p>
<p>TB shots don’t go in too deep. They’re more a prick.</p>
<p>It bubbles? Seriously? It was just a prick for me…like a normal shot.</p>
<p>I got a TB shot at Stanford Hospital this afternoon, which turned out to be negative. I still can’t believe that I was nervous for that. The only thing I felt was a little annoyance in my skin for about a second, and it didn’t even hurt whatsoever. After the injection, I saw a small dot-like patch of skin that was elevated higher than the rest of my arm, but that only lasted for a few minutes. Since I will be a regular volunteer during the summer, I will have to get a second TB testing next week. Ugh. I think it really depends on how the TB shot is given. When a nurse administered a TB shot to me three years ago, it really hurt when she first poked the needle in. I think she just didn’t watch where she was aiming. I guess it’s up to the nurse on whether your shot hurts or not. Good luck.</p>
<p>i got it done afew days ago and i am negative. yea it was pretty easy and didn’t even hurt.</p>
<p>it’s really not a big deal… if they use a band-aid, you won’t even have to see the bump…</p>
<p>there was zero bump and i got the strongest immune system it healed up and was GONE today</p>
<p>Its not a freaking shot. Its a test to see whether you’ve been exposed to TB at any time in your life.
And there’s no such thing as a false positive. Either you have TB antibodies or you don’t. If you do it swells up like a mosquito bite. If you don’t it goes away in a few hours.</p>
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Same here. I’m having trouble locating where the little puncture was, which is a good indication.</p>
<p>There are two kinds of TB tests. One consists of a circle of tiny pricks done by a “gun” on the inside of your forearm. This was the kind we adults usually got as children. After 3 days you look for redness or rash. If nothing, then you’re negative. Sometimes there can be a false positive with this type; I don’t know if they even use it anymore. When I had a positive reaction, then they did a different test. With this one (think it’s the Mantoux type), they use a needle and inject of bubble of liquid under the skin. Same procedure after that: you check for any irritation after a few days. This one is more reliable. I never got a false positive with this kind. Either way, it was definitely not even remotely one of the bad shots.</p>
<p>I took my second shot today. It was more painful than my first one last week. It really does depend on the nurse. I got a pretty rude one. She wasn’t as careful and I felt the needle throughout the duration of the puncture. Heck, even after I asked for a band-aid, she said that I didn’t need one. Oh well. At least it’s negative.</p>