Now MissyB, don't take this wrong ... I don't mean to get all preachy here, but something you wrote set me off a bit. "You can't help your feelings sometimes."
I want to preface this with an image for you: me in the emergency room in February, bawling like a baby, sobbing with tears running down my face, shaking like a leaf from head to toe. Terrified. They weren't even DOING anything to me yet!! Okay, so that said, and keeping in mind that I am a serious pansyass when it comes to pain, the flip side to that is that I'm just fine and dandy when it comes to needles, shots, whatever -- come and get me, I've got my arm out, no problem!
Okay, now back to the feelings part. Stick with me now .... feelings don't just come out of nowhere. ALL feelings are caused by THOUGHTS. There is no feeling that is not the result of a thought. Okay? And -- usually to some degree -- you can control your thoughts. If I tell you to think about a six-foot-tall bunch of broccoli right now, you can think about it, huh? Okydoky. Well, then, it follows that if you can think about whatever you decide to, and feelings follow thoughts, then you can at least direct your feelings if not totally control them.
I start thinking about things in the hospital that cause me pain and I start freaking out. I think about shots and I'm fine because that's how I think. DUH.
Kel, maybe if you practice thinking about some non-fearful thoughts associated with shots you will at least get better at it, huh? Picture that nice friendly B12 under your skin, spreading out to make your whole body and mind feel all better. Picture yourself sleeping restfully spread out on the bed with a little smile on your face. Picture yourself waking up with birds singing and you feel pretty spiffy because now you have B12 running around in your system. (Believe me, I know how staggery you feel when the b12 is down -- I'm doing the same thing!)
If you can trick or train your mind to associate good stuff with shots instead of bad stuff with shots, it will help some. (And maybe I'll take my own advice and work on my response to pain, eh?)
Do investigate that sub-lingual B12 idea. I asked about it, too, but was told it's just not as effective as the shots, and since I don't mind shots, I just let it go. But I'm curious if it would work for you, so let us know, okay?
BEST OF LUCK, we're pullin' for ya, hang in there baby. You can do this, and as someone else noted, once you get properly diagnosed and treated, you'll be amazed at how life brightens back up again. Trust me, it's true.
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