All the colours of the rainbow ...

[Pixilated]

So I go to get blood drawn today for a battery of tests (no problems that I know of -- mom has diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid problems, etc., and apparently these can all pass down the maternal line so this is preventative medicine, as it were).

Nurse has a touch of trouble finding the vein. I now have a very impressive rainbow in the crook of my right arm.

[Food Lady]

Once neither my doctor nor either nurse could find mine, so they said, "You'll have to go across town to the lab." I thought What are they gonna do to me if you can't find it? I've never run into that again. My veins seem relatively easy to find now. Weird.

[Marmalady]

Medical staff have never had any problem finding any of my veins.

Picking me up off the floor and bringing me round afterwards, that's the problem they usually have....

[Cazzi]

My veins are usually pretty easy to find.. apart from the time I had to have an intravenous dye for a scan just after my daughter was born.
One nurse tried & failed to get the vein, a 2nd nurse got the vein but it leaked so they called out the head guy who managed to inject the dye via my ankle without a mark!
They did say I may get a discoloured bruise there later.... they weren't kidding.. it was practically from my wrist to halfway to my armpit!
It was a good job that the outfit I'd chosen for my post baby first night a couple of days later didn't clash with it

[csquared]

At the end of my hospital stay, having been pumped full of blood thinners, they removed the IV from the back of my left hand. The whole back of my hand ballooned up. I had a huge purple spot for about two weeks. Along with the other IV and blood draw locations.

[cashierbex]

My veins are impossible to find. Most of the time they use my hand.

[AnaKhouri]

My veins are very easy, Only once while giving blood did someone mess it up; she got it in at a bad angle, jiggld it around inside my arm to get the blood to flow (OW!) and then managed to pierce the vein somehow so I had a huge black bruise there for weeks. Only bad time I ever had with nedles though.

[telecom_goddess]

On my arms I have one good spot to draw from. one. That's it. And I get blood drawn often for various reasons so that poor spot is getting abused. It's holding up well though

[klhanson]

a few months ago i was in the ER for something and they had to draw blood.. she said she didn't like the look of the vein but used it anyway and burst it.. my arm from just above my elbow to partway towards my wrist was so bruised.. I had to fly that next weekend and while i was waiting for my flight in san francisco it started hurting and got really hard to the touch.. they thought i had a blood clot.. it was pretty bad.

[telecom_goddess]

Quoth klhanson

while i was waiting for my flight in san francisco it started hurting and got really hard to the touch.. they thought i had a blood clot.. it was pretty bad.

and did you? what happened?