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Donating blood

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mackinnon
Posts: 5153 - Karma: 156
i donated blood for the first time today, primarily just to see what it was like. after it took about 10 minutes to fill the bag i felt ok...until i watched the nurse put the needle in one of my professors and saw the blood shoot into the tube. it didn't freak me out at all, but all of a sudden i felt ridiculously hot and starting sweating bullets and hyperventilating. after 5 minutes like this and almost barfing i felt a little better.

also, getting the needle put it EFFING HURT!

anyone else donate blood? i don't think i'll be doing it again.
Jan 24 2008 1:00AM
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Sno.
Posts: 12155 - Karma: 6,147
one time i randomly felt like being a good person and getting some karma points, so i went to the hospital and was like "hi, i want to donate blood"

they were like "you cant just donate blood whenever, you have to wait for certain times when we do it, or do it on one of the remote blood busses we send out"

so she was like "heres the schedule of all the times you can come and donate blood"

and that just seemed like way too much effort, so i ditched that idea.
Jan 24 2008 1:04AM
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Avifarer
Posts: 5926 - Karma: 598
my dad donates blood all the time and i'll probably do it when i'm older.
Jan 24 2008 1:05AM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
I'm selfish, I'll be an organ donor, but I'm not giving blood.
Jan 24 2008 1:07AM
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Sno.
Posts: 12155 - Karma: 6,147
totally understandable..
Jan 24 2008 1:08AM
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Aenigma
Posts: 11256 - Karma: 424
Pretty much everybody in my family donates but I haven't gotten around to it yet.  I've considered doing it a few times, but there's a couple things barring me.

1) I hate needles. Hatehatehatehatehate.  On the positive side, I'll never be addicted to heroin.

2) My blood probably isn't healthy to put into other people.

3) I'm not a good person.
Jan 24 2008 1:09AM
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mackinnon
Posts: 5153 - Karma: 156
the red cross does blood drives at my school a lot, so i figured today was the day. my blood better freaking save someone, i'm O + i think, universal donor what what
Jan 24 2008 1:16AM
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cmeriptahoe
Posts: 1785 - Karma: 12
ive done it a couple of times when they did it at school. not a huge fan haha. supposedly my blood saves little babies. or so they told me. i think they were just trying to make me happy tho.
Jan 24 2008 1:19AM
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McTwist83
Posts: 282 - Karma: 11
Yeah I've done it before, I have that rare blood type thats compatable with everyone..but the downside is if i get injured and i need blood i need my type.

One time after I was done with giving my blood i stood up and pretty much blacked out..That wasn't to fun, but fortuantly they had ORANGE JUICE FOR ME!!!! I was stoked about that
Jan 24 2008 1:26AM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
sarcasm or?

Anyway I don''t because I do sports and usually if you donate you can't do strenuous activity for a day or something I dunno.
Jan 24 2008 1:27AM
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brokebutitsworthit
Posts: 2279 - Karma: 27
I have mad cow disease so they wont let me, well i dont actually but they still wont let me becuase i was in England during the scares about it. 
Jan 24 2008 3:01AM
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babysteeze84
Posts: 720 - Karma: 285
I've only had blood tests done, never actually given blood because the donate blood mobile always seems to come at in-opportune times, like when I have a competition or something.
Jan 24 2008 3:10AM
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Crackaghan
Posts: 583 - Karma: 11
haha my family encourages it becuase i have blood type o positive

its not that bad
Jan 24 2008 3:20AM
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gmack24
Posts: 4636 - Karma: 31
I personally refuse to do it...but on a positive note, my fraternity held a blood drive on campus and got record numbers to donate, so I guess it all evens out.
Jan 24 2008 3:23AM
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.scott.
Posts: 1034 - Karma: 27
needles don't really bother me so even though i have the most common blood type, i donate anyway.  one time i was kinda dehydrated and hadn't had much to eat the day we did it and when they finished and i leaned up to get out of the chair i passed out.  it was funny to wake up with five strange faces staring at me.  i know exactly what the thread creator is talkin about with that sick feeling.  i tossed it in the garbage can like thirty seconds later.  so...a word to the wise...drink a lot of fluids the day before and eat a good breakfast the day of.
Jan 24 2008 4:12AM
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.makuma.
Posts: 2258 - Karma: 43
^same here, i dont think its a big deal, i just do it to help out for people who actually need it
Jan 24 2008 7:59AM
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Alexander_Keith
Posts: 3204 - Karma: 25
Dude I'm in the exactly same boat.
Jan 24 2008 10:47AM
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Alexander_Keith
Posts: 3204 - Karma: 25
exact**
Jan 24 2008 10:47AM
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mackinnon
Posts: 5153 - Karma: 156
type O is the universal donor that everyone can recieve.. and its the most common blood type, so i think you're fine.

i also had some sweet HI-C after i almost died haha, and some cookies. score! haha
Jan 24 2008 11:18AM
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yelsel
Posts: 12967 - Karma: 3,451
i tried to donate a couple of times and got rejected.

no one wants my blood :(

probably a very very good thing
Jan 24 2008 11:21AM
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Elijah.
Posts: 9322 - Karma: 76
The needles not THAT bad, but it's slightly uncomfortable. But congrats on donating your first time.
Jan 24 2008 11:22AM
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Tolz
Posts: 1882 - Karma: 27
i dont mind blood and needles

just as long as its not my blood and the needle isnt for me

so no, i do not give blood.
Jan 24 2008 12:46PM
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user098123
Posts: 6072 - Karma: 18
Haha same. I think I could probably give myself a shot or something if I had to, but the whole idea of another person sticking that tube in me so my blood drains out just doesn't sit well.

I might do it someday just to get over my 'fear' of it, if you will. I'm planning on being an organ donor too so that kinda makes up for it I think.
Jan 24 2008 12:49PM
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whattheshit
Posts: 6562 - Karma: 107
there are blood drives here in quebec at my school.  i don't donate because im worried a separatist might get my true canadian blood.
Jan 24 2008 12:52PM
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Tolz
Posts: 1882 - Karma: 27
ha - that's funny
Jan 24 2008 12:57PM
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beezey
Posts: 9027 - Karma: 428
I had a really bad surgery after i got my foot rebuilt and i had to get the pins out in short they couldn't get the pins out and the doctors were freaking out all the nurses had to hold me down cause i was shaking and it hurt so bad nowi have this awesome little phobia of needles. I went to go get my cavities filled last week and i wad doing god then my doctor pulledout a needle and i started crying and hyperventalating it was super cool
Jan 24 2008 1:11PM
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kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
I just signed up to give blood yesterday. But does it matter if you smoke majijuana?
Jan 24 2008 1:15PM
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Schmidnj
Posts: 387 - Karma: 10
I give double red all the time, thats where they take out your blood and plasma, separate it, send the plasma back, and do it agian.  Not bad at all.  Takes like half an hour and not painful, at least i dont think.
Jan 24 2008 1:17PM
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mackinnon
Posts: 5153 - Karma: 156
i don't think so...they ask you a ton of questions and that wasn't one of them. but if you've had sex with a man who's had sex with another man, or someone with HIV, forget about it
Jan 24 2008 2:34PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
there is more than one way to do heroin, so you will probably still get addicted.
Jan 24 2008 3:01PM
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jimmychung
Posts: 6857 - Karma: 25
i have several times before, and i always get nervous right before and kind of sweat and feel sick. but in the end i know that i like to do it and i always feel good about what i've done afterwards. i also find that the more i do it, the less it hurts. bring a book too, it helps take your mind off of the fact that there's a needle in your arm at that moment. but nothing too complicated, i tried reading 'fabric of the cosmos' one time and that's hard enough to understand without a needle in your arm.
Jan 24 2008 3:23PM
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Gavajabra
Posts: 723 - Karma: 14
I've done it twice and it doesnt bother me at all especially since they had tons of free cans of ice cold pineapple juice and I got to chill n eat cookies.
Jan 24 2008 3:36PM
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sugarloaf
Posts: 7866 - Karma: 299
I've dontated like 3 times now, last time being in the fall and I think next week I'm gonna do it again. so out of the past year, i've done it every time I've been able to. I personally think it feels kinda cool. also you get drunk a lot faster after you do it.
Jan 24 2008 3:48PM
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Capt.Flannel
Posts: 10928 - Karma: 36
my dad and I race to see who can fill the bag the fastest. He's currently #1 with a time of 3:15. Bastard.

I've had bloodwork done every few months for all 20 years of my life, so needles and giving blood are nothing to me. Lucky me, I guess.
Jan 24 2008 3:50PM
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jimmychung
Posts: 6857 - Karma: 25
oh yeah, because that's the reason to do it/that's really healthy for you.
Jan 24 2008 3:50PM
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skiP.E.I.
Posts: 7604 - Karma: 20,093
yeah, I just donated last week, the mobile clinic came to my university. It was Ok, except I ahd to do all this dumb paperwork that all said i didn't have AIDS. Then when i actually was having the blood taken it was the boringest 8 minutes of my life, and it smelled like a hospital which sucked. felt like i was doing something good though, because it migth save someone who was in a crash or needed surgery, like the people that put threads on here about there friends or family injured or killed in car wrecks. It even could save another skier!

^plus what the person above me said about getting drunk really fast is true, since you have about a pint less blood to water down your liquor.
Jan 24 2008 4:16PM
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skiP.E.I.
Posts: 7604 - Karma: 20,093
that is the best part. I lifted enough free snacks for the next few days of homework after.
Jan 24 2008 4:17PM
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skiblandford
Posts: 1503 - Karma: 2
i have never will again after i left the building and i fainted hit my head on the ground and was sent to the hospital i later found out that giving blood wasbt worht it cause my blood was unusable they never told me why just that i cant come back cause my blood is worth shit
Jan 24 2008 4:20PM
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SARTRON
Posts: 2969 - Karma: 87
i dont meet the stardards like weighing enough so i cant give blood...plus im anemic.

i would like to give blood though
Jan 24 2008 4:25PM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
 I plan on it when I'm old enough if I can. I see no reason not too, I don't enjoy needles but I don't have a phobia against them.
Jan 24 2008 5:00PM
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nigel12
Posts: 571 - Karma: 11
i donate when ever they some to our local community center which is like 3 or 4 times a year

i do it cause i kinda beleive in the whole karma idea and it cant hurt to have karma on your side
plus its not a big a deal it takes like an hour max
and they say you cant do anything for the rest of the day but i find im fine ill go ski or whatever after

Jan 24 2008 5:07PM
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pbplaya69
Posts: 611 - Karma: 19
I donate all the time we have drives at school, great way to get out of class.
Jan 24 2008 5:36PM
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pommes_vertes.
Posts: 1260 - Karma: 10
I donate every 6 weeks when I'm allowed to.  I'm not a big fan of needles, but it takes like 10 minutes, and I feel pretty good about myself afterwards, so it's defintely worth it in my opinion.  I'd urge anyone that hasn't ever done it to give it a try, at least once.
Jan 24 2008 6:39PM
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saucybiscuits
Posts: 2554 - Karma: 173
did you get paid?
Jan 24 2008 6:49PM
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meggles
Posts: 3156 - Karma: 54
I'm donating as much as possible. I'm glad my school has blood drives 2 or 3 times a year.
Jan 24 2008 6:54PM
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snwbrdmilf
Posts: 22441 - Karma: 2,805
I had the same problem. HATEHATEHATE needles. But this was in high school, and I got out of some classes for it. So I donated, and didn't handle it too well. They kept me after making me eat cookies and drink juice until they thought I was okay.

Has anyone here donated their hair? Now that's a good feeling.
Jan 24 2008 7:04PM
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mackinnon
Posts: 5153 - Karma: 156
haha no, i wish. my mom asked the same thing.

i dont' get how people can drink the same day they donate! i was totally wiped out until today.
Jan 24 2008 7:04PM
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proZach
Posts: 7163 - Karma: 917
i gave blood my senior year in high school for the first time. it was real early in the morning and i didn't eat breakfast. the needle was in for like 15 minutes because my blood sucked. haha. it wasn't bad and i didn't feel like anything after, just a little tired. this one kid, did a cartwheel when he got off the table and passed out.

moral of the story. good for cartwheels. i'll drink to that.
Jan 24 2008 7:15PM
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skiEER
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i did it once in highschool but i was always too small untill my senior year.  it really wasnt that bad besides feeling a little weak.
Jan 24 2008 7:30PM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
I wanna get mad high and donate blood. I know I'd pass out because my blood pressure drops but the person who got the blood would be mad high. Obviously it wouldn't work. It's just one of my crazy ideas.
Jan 24 2008 7:39PM
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whattheshit
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oh dude thats mad cool.
Jan 24 2008 7:44PM
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