Great inventions that nobody has yet thought of

[Tank]

A way to get vaccines without needles. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector

[Ali]

Haha, last time I made everyone around me try the finger prick at least once (because I'm mean, and they indicated curiousity.)  Biggest bunch of crybabies EVER!  "Ooooowwwww that stings!"  Oh yeah, little bit?  'Cause I only do it three times a day, no big deal.   

My dad has one of those to keep an eye on his blood sugar. Last time I was home he wanted to test my blood sugar. Three jabs with the fucking thing later he still hadn't drawn blood. I told him "Fuck it. I'm out."

You're not supposed to do it on the part with the fingernail....

[xSilverPhinx]

A way to get vaccines without needles. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector

Hell Naw!

I took a anti yellow fever vaccine when I was seven with that thing, we nicknamed it 'the gun'.

I prefer needles.



I don't find needles all that bad, problem is, my arm veins are really deep whereas my wrist veins are superficial. I usually draw blood from those, which hurt more.

An invention that makes the primitive process of drawing blood obselete. Some way to get the same readings without having to prick people.

[Guardian85]

My dad has one of those to keep an eye on his blood sugar. Last time I was home he wanted to test my blood sugar. Three jabs with the fucking thing later he still hadn't drawn blood. I told him "Fuck it. I'm out."

You're not supposed to do it on the part with the fingernail....

Hey, we may be northerners but we're not that backwards! 

[Buddy]

A way to get vaccines without needles. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector

Hell Naw!

I took a anti yellow fever vaccine when I was seven with that thing, we nicknamed it 'the gun'.

I prefer needles.



I don't find needles all that bad, problem is, my arm veins are really deep whereas my wrist veins are superficial. I usually draw blood from those, which hurt more.

An invention that makes the primitive process of drawing blood obselete. Some way to get the same readings without having to prick people.

I would be okay with needles if I could just stop throwing up after I get them.

[OldGit]

I would be okay with needles if I could just stop throwing up after I get them.

So you're swallowing them.  That's where you're going wrong.

[Buddy]

I would be okay with needles if I could just stop throwing up after I get them.

So you're swallowing them.  That's where you're going wrong.

I wish! Taking meds in pill form would make life so much easier!

[hismikeness]

It can always get worse...like having to take a needle through the open iris in your eye. It probably doesn't hurt at all but it's got to be a desconcerting experience to see that needle coming closer...and closer...

There is NO way I'm taking a needle to the eyeball. I have a fear regarding my eyes. No eyedrops for me... the eye doctor told me he had to use numbing drops- just a few per eye. He was like, "hold your head back and I'll drip them in." I said, "The fuck you will. I will close my eyes, you can drop all you want and I'll blink it in."

A needle? No f-ing way.

[Asmodean]

A way to get vaccines without needles.  

There are several such ways. For instance, some vaccines can be taken orally, but that takes away all the fun of watching a needle pierce the skin. Hm... Come to think of it, I'd probably make an excellent diabetic... Or street junkie.

Oh, and as for the needle through the eye thing - as long as they use plenty of drugs, what's the big deal? The doctors DO usually know what they are doing, and if they fuck up, you can demand their coin in stead of the other way around.

[Tank]

It can always get worse...like having to take a needle through the open iris in your eye. It probably doesn't hurt at all but it's got to be a desconcerting experience to see that needle coming closer...and closer...

There is NO way I'm taking a needle to the eyeball. I have a fear regarding my eyes. No eyedrops for me... the eye doctor told me he had to use numbing drops- just a few per eye. He was like, "hold your head back and I'll drip them in." I said, "The fuck you will. I will close my eyes, you can drop all you want and I'll blink it in."

A needle? No f-ing way.

I've had both of my eyeballs cut open while under local anaesthetic so I could see (in a rather blurry way) what was going on. You may use the nearest litter bin to throw up in 

[OldGit]

Aaarrgh! Yaroo! Please kill me before they do that.  Torture me, lock me in a cell with Rolf Harris, anything but that.

[xSilverPhinx]

Oh, and as for the needle through the eye thing - as long as they use plenty of drugs, what's the big deal? The doctors DO usually know what they are doing, and if they fuck up, you can demand their coin in stead of the other way around.

The big deal for me would be:

I've had both of my eyeballs cut open while under local anaesthetic so I could see (in a rather blurry way) what was going on. You may use the nearest litter bin to throw up in 

Even if you don't feel it, seeing someone cut up your eye (which you're rather more instinctively inclined to protect) has got to be a disconcerting experience. 

They could invent some anestectic which temporarily deactivates the optic nerve so you don't have to see these things. Would come in handy for all open eye operations for the squimish.

[Asmodean]

Are you kidding?!

It sounds quite incredibly cool. You can more or less see your own innards... From within!  When I have the coin, I so want some eye surgery. Only mine will probably be done with a laser.

As for the instincts, battles of will between oneself and one's reflexes are sort of fun - especially when one wins.

[Tank]

Well I was crapping myself about it and was insisting on a full anaesthetic until I sat with a little old lady of 75 'ish who had had one eye done and was going through the checks for her second eye. She explained the whole thing properly to me and I thought if she can do it I can do it. So I changed to having a local. The first operation I could see or at least make out something during the entire process, even to the point of things coming back into focus when the flopped the cornea back over the hole. However on the second operation things started out the same but at some point everything went blindingly white, just in the eye being operated on. I couldn't even tell whether my eye was open or closed. I mentioned this and apparently the anaesthetic they bathe the eyeball in had reached the optic nerve and stopped it working and without input the brain's default condition is to see white, not black as one would think. Most interesting.

I have wondered if this is why people experience a tunnel of light in near death experiences. That the 'white light' is just a side effect of neurological luck in that if wired differently we'd simply see a black tunnel.

The whole procedure was better than going to the dentist.

[The Magic Pudding]

Can someone please let me know when it's safe to read again.