Anyone who’s had a heparin injection will tell you it’s no walk in the park. It hurts.
There’s just something about the heparin injection that makes it hurt more than a more typical shot that you might get, such as that for the flu or for a corticosteroid injection.
Now by “hurting,” I don’t mean any mere soreness after the shot, but the actual injection itself – which is administered to a person’s lower abdomen.
This procedure is commonplace for people after inpatient surgery.
Immediately after I received my first heparin injection for my preventive double mastectomy, I said, “It doesn’t hurt quite as bad as facial extractions on the nose.”
Then I changed my mind about that. It’s at least equal.
The nurse had never had a facial extraction so I explained them to her. They feel like a needle is being stuck deep into your skin – when it’s done on the tip or bulbous part of the nose during cosmetic extractions.
Oddly, extractions anywhere else on the face actually feel great.
An extraction is when the “black” in blackheads is squeezed out. When this procedure is done on the tip or bulbous portion of the nose, it hurts to high heaven.
Now maybe it hurts so much because multiple extractions are done in a very confined space.
But I can honestly say that a single extraction on the nose tip – single – hurts like hell.
The difference in pain between a heparin shot and an extraction on the nose is that the hep injection has a “thicker” feel, while a single extraction of a blackhead has a “thinner” feel.
Bottom line: Heparin injections hurt. But the pain is very short-lived. Just lie there, close your eyes and let the nurse do her good work.
I can’t imagine multiple heparin injections in a confined area over a period of minutes, but then again, I can’t say it enough: Extractions on the tip of the nose can give a heparin injection a good run for its money. Both hurt like mad!
