Orange Juice Placebo?

[Emet]

Many times when I've been a baby about a medical procedure (such as an injection), a (usually female) medical practitioner will, when I apologize for being a baby about it, will say something like "it's always the big guys who are the babies."

Were you insulted? Or was it a good natured joke? I may try to tease a male client about his gender, but I make an effort not to offend folks.
I'm a fairly pain tolerant female... except for my teeth. I get nitrous to have my teeth cleaned, and warn all staff that I may spontaneously cry--for no good reason. I'm dentaphobic, and have sensitive teeth. I'm a big baby about my teeth.

So Emet, is it your male patients who whimper and whine when you give them an injection, never the female ones?

Nah. As a rule, little dogs whine more than big dogs, regardless of gender.

And, by the way, what, in canines, is the male equivalent of "bitch?" There is "sire", for a male dog who is a Daddy, but that's the equivalent of, what, "dame"? Is there a word which means "male dog", regardless of whether or not he has sired any pups?

AFAIK, the terminology comes from breeding circles, or are common names-- nothing scientific. Females are bitches or dams. Males are sires or studs... or dogs.

 

[wolfgirl]

Another thought: Quinine

Seems that it works on the cellular level to help Malaria. It works on cramps the same way.

My mother-in-law swears by quinine. When we were on a recent trip to Costa Rica together, she obviously hadn't brought any quinine water with her, and she started getting leg cramps at night. So we hiked to a local grocery store the next day and stocked up on quinine water, and the cramps went away once she started drinking it. I'd never heard of it myself...

(I just made sure to eat a daily banana, which is easy to do in Costa Rica!)

 

[RSLancastr]

Were you insulted? Or was it a good natured joke? I may try to tease a male client about his gender, but I make an effort not to offend folks.

It wasn't good-natured, but I wasn't particularly offended. It was marginally sexist (and...sizist?), but I had other things on my mind (like "just where is she going to stick that needle?") and so took it simply as the nurse's opinion.

I'm a fairly pain tolerant female... except for my teeth. I get nitrous to have my teeth cleaned, and warn all staff that I may spontaneously cry--for no good reason. I'm dentaphobic, and have sensitive teeth. I'm a big baby about my teeth.

as the dentist whom you bit can attest!

Nah. As a rule, little dogs whine more than big dogs, regardless of gender.

More sizism!

AFAIK, the terminology comes from breeding circles, or are common names-- nothing scientific. Females are bitches or dams. Males are sires or studs... or dogs.

Okay, thanks.

 

[casebro]

So far as dog shots go, I just took my mutt to a vaccine clinic. 50 dogs in line for shots. Only a few dogs cried, all little ones.

So far as people shots, I've given myself thousands of insulin injections. Most painlessly. But some realy whack me. And they are the ones that bruise too. So like I learned in the ER getting mangled fingers puzzled back together, nerves run close to arteries. I figure occasionally a needle hits a nerve, causing unusual pain, and also poke a hole in a mini-artery. So hitting a nerve is random chance.

My dog needed three shots. First two, no trauma. Third one got a rise, she tried to bite at it, as if at a flea. 50 pounds, female, Standard Poodle/Aussie cattle dog cross.

 

[casebro]

The deal with potassium is that it is in virtually everything we eat. Bananas do have more, but potatoes also have lots. And the few people who are low on potassium are on diuretic pills- no pills, little chance of low potassium.

But Lisinopril retains potassium....

 

[RSLancastr]

I'm on more than a dozem meds now, casebro. I'll ask my doc if any retain or deplete Potassium.