Aww~ Hope you got your teddy in th process~

They lie!!!! Evil doctors inject wif medicine. *huggles* Nuu... nuu widdle guy should hav to suffer wike dat!

Teddy, yaaay! :3

I has teddy right now.

Small price to pay for a new teddy

It's a trap!

no lil buddy its a trap

Effective distraction, but yes, it doesn't always work! Glad it did this time around :)

The reason distractions work is NOT because "it hurts less if you're not concentrating on it", it hurts less because you're not tensing up or fidgeting away from the needle, so the doctor/nurse/lab tech/whoever can put it in and take it out with almost no movement, contacting very few nerves.

...IF they're any good...and I've had a few that weren't, so I stand by my "If the distraction works" theory. :) Which it usually does.

I am with Osee They lie!!! They lie!!! They lie!!! They lie!!! *runs away* but I am a sucker for teddies, I would fall in that trap :(

When I was very small I got a needle for some reason or another, I thrashed about and it hurt like nothing else in existence.

When I was older, I needed to get blood drawn, and Mom told me "Try to observe it, carefully, scientifically" because I've always been hugely into math and science. And it worked--it hurt very little because I wasn't moving around, so instead of the needle shifting and hitting all manner of pain nerves, it hit only the ones it pierced going in and out.

Be glad the trick worked. Otherwise it'd be disastrous like all mine are. But at least he got a Teddy outta it.