The DRIPBaR - New Tampa
2025-01-14T15:38:15.811Z
I have POTS, and I woke up with a really awful migraine. It was a level 6 out of 10, meaning that I could speak and walk. My tolerance is absurd for pain, which is NOT a good thing.I had to go to a new IV place due to my usual having difficulty getting supplies in. I was trying to wait, but I couldn’t because it’s been a month and my body started to scream at me.The nurse ignored everything I told her about my small veins. They don’t use butterfly needles, which is fine, but apparently they don’t listen to their patients either.When the vein rolled on her on my left arm, she opened up the IV anyway, realized there wasn’t any blood in the canula so it wasn’t returning, and then stabbed me again by drawing in and out to fix it. The vein swelled, which made her stop and pull it out.Now, I’m sitting here bleeding as she starts to poke at my arm to find a vein 🙈🙈🙈. I actually had to say to her,“ Hey, I’m still bleeding. Can we maybe do something about that?”She wipes at it, doesn’t bother to bandage or compress, and yanks down my sleeve as if to say “out of sight out of mind!”I’m watching her as she goes to the other side and begins to poke at the next vein. I have a VERY high tolerance for pain, friends. I’m not being a baby, and I typically get infusions at least once a week. I’m used to these.So I continue to watch to see what she’s going to do. I usually am asked to squeeze my fist or something to help find veins, none of that was done. If I could have been a piece of meat that she was poking at, the effect would have been the same.She was very nice to the woman next to me, checked on her often. A woman came in for a B12 shot, and she stepped away in the middle of what she was doing with me to take care of her, and even offered her a bandaid. I’m still bleeding by the way. Smiles at both of them, cold to me.I have never in my life had someone act like this, and not once did she apologize for blowing out the vein on my left arm which is swelling and hurts as I sit there. So I keep watching.She finally comes back, pokes around, rolled the damn vein, but managed to rebound. Cool. I don’t usually have these hurt as much as when she did them. She opens the IV wide open, doesn’t ask if I need a slower flow, bends over backward to see if the woman next to me is okay.I’m furiously documenting everything, talking to a nurse friend, who is fuming about leaving me open to infection.The IV should usually take 40 minutes, it took 20 instead, and I could tell that she wanted to get me out.Now, appearance: I was dressed nicely, I have fun hair, I’m wearing jewelry. Not that it matters, we should treat people well regardless, but the point is, I didn’t look like a bum.I thankfully didn’t have an adverse reaction to the IV, but I’m bruised on both of my arms. I had to ASK her to bandage and compress my left arm that she covered up after screwing up, and then iced it when I got home.They texted me in the morning to see how I was doing 💀, and I explained that I was bruised. She said that happens, and told me to have a good day.The vein on my left arm is puffy to the touch still.Sooooo. If you’re looking for an IV place, I would avoid the Drip Bar in new Tampa. I went two days ago and now I’m still very sore and swollen and also bruised. The bruises are getting worse.
I have POTS, and I woke up with a really awful migraine. It was a level 6 out of 10, meaning that I could speak and walk. My tolerance is absurd for p... More