Sounds like it would make an interesting AMA <| sep |> Damn . I hope that 1 dollar isn ' t responsible for an eventual bankruptcy . <| sep |> I was having a blood test . The nurse looked very uninterested and unmotivated . She pricked me , hard . When she was done I was very pale and got in the car . I felt weird and incoherent . I look down at my arm and I have a huge hematoma growing on my arm . At this point I feel awful and my body goes into fight or flight BIG TIME . All the blood pressure hits my chest then it all drops . My mom is a nurse and was driving me . She counted my heart rate as a very soft 30 bpm . I physically felt like I was dying . I kept almost losing consciousness until I said I didn ' t want to die in my moms car . To which she punched me in the chest and told me to shut up , as she sped up and ran red lights all the way to the hospital . If I ever had to imagine dying , it was 100 % what I felt that day . What had happened was the nurse had broken an artery in my arm and I was losing A LOT more blood than I signed up for . Since then I have had severe health anxiety and constantly fear death . It ' s been over a month now and I can ' t help but feel terrible . My head is constantly cloudy , my heart will sometimes skip beats and vary in blood pressure until I calm myself down . I ' ve had very sparse days of feeling good . Over the past week it has been exceptionally bad and I ' ve lost almost 10 lbs due to inability to eat . Food makes me nauseous and I just feel awful . The reason I even had a blood test was to check for hypothyroidism because I was depressed that my hairline had receeded a little . Now I wish I could take it all back and now have done it because it ' s affected my life as a whole now . I hope to get a handle on this soon , as I was never an anxious person , and I loved the person I was before all this fear and just want to be me again .