*Karen’s Story- A 40 year battle with needle phobia.

Name changed for privacy.  For forty years, Karen has been battling with a debilitating fear of needles. This fear, known as needle phobia, has caused her to become physically ill at the mere thought of needles. Karen’s fear of needles is so severe that she avoids medical appointments and even vaccines, putting her health at […]

Uncut and Unedited video: NeedleCalm Live in Action!

They say there’s a first time for everything, and yesterday we put NeedleCalm to the test in a groundbreaking off-label use. We tackled a very painful needle procedure – Intradermal Sterile Water Injections – and the results were incredible! Typically used to assist with lower back pain during labour, clinicians inject 0.1-0.2 mls of sterile […]

An insight into a clinician with needle phobia

We love getting people involved in our projects. A few weeks ago, we put the call out to find people a little more rare than our needle phobic patients – a clinician with a needle phobia. We were lucky enough to find Kristy Hawkins who is an anaesthetic technician. She first discovered that she had a needle […]

Real Mum Review

So …….here it is!! Please enjoy our Real Mum Review courtesy of the fabulous team from One Fine Baby. Their resident ‘needle-phobe’ Alex bravely tried NeedleCalm for her vaccine. The review also features a young superstar having a needle and he didn’t even flinch! #NeedleCalm#OneandDone https://www.instagram.com/tv/CT3_r6rhQkf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The Bigham Family

I first heard about NeedleCalm on the TV news and immediately googled it but it wasn’t quite available to the public then. My 9 year old son had a traumatic needle experience last year in hospital and managed to work himself up into such a state at the mention of needing bloods taken again or […]

Oliver

My name is Oliver, I came across Needle Calm when it was in the early stages of production and was absolutely blown away by the thought. I am a 32-year-old Transgender male and I rely heavily on fortnightly injections of testosterone to continue my hormone therapy. I have been on testosterone for 9 years now, […]