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Any tips? I am trying to get botox injections in my hands for hyperhidrosis, which requires 25-30 injections all over palm and fingers (per hand). I have a severe needle phobia and yesterday tapped out after 11 injections - it hurts, really bad. I'm trying to figure out a way to

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get through this procedure. They used topical numbing cream, *and* I was on 2mg lorazepam, but that still didn't work. Does anybody have any suggestions, even if creative or hard to pull off? I'm kinda desperate.

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can you do weird distraction stuff? VR headset...?

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I think this might work if I were doing one or two injections, but the sheer pain of it is really high

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that sucks, sorry to hear that :(

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