#needles

Coughing up blood into a hand and then looking at it with shocked/terrified eyes

The Tension™ of one character tenderly patching up another character's wounds and scolding them for being reckless

Apologizing right before passing out

A hand cupped to a forehead to check for fever

A hand going under a jacket or shirt and coming away bloody

Forced to kneel with a sword under their chin

Lying about the severity/hiding of an injury

Collapsing after a big magic spell/magical exhaustion draining them

The comic relief character joking about their trauma/injury to dissuade worry from them

Hero injured/collapsing on villians doorstep or vice versa, "I didn't know where else to go"

Being curled on the ground and then kicked in the ribs (literally being kicked while they're down)

Being injected with a needle of drugs/potion by villian that knocks them out

Having a terrible nightmare and waking up with a cry in a cold sweat

Fighting against unconsciousness (unsuccessfully)

Happy One Year on T, Gift for a Friend

I have a lot of clear memories from being 3-4 years old, including memories of medical stuff, but I do not remember this at all. Like, when she mentioned this I didn't really even believe her because I was certain I would have remembered if there was a negative experience...what with how often I have painstakingly searched my memories for a possible explanation

Anyways I was looking at the Wikipedia for strep throat and the only favored medicine it lists for treating it that's given as an injection is benzathine benzylpenicillin, which is apparently notoriously excruciatingly painful, and also too viscous to be injected into the arm, meaning it's 100% certain they would have pulled down my pants to inject it, probably in the butt. That might explain some of the things that are triggering to me.

This fact sheet suggests using analgesia such as applying an ice pack and/or giving pain medication, and also says it takes 2-3 minutes to inject.

As per the Lancet: "Pain due to intramuscular injection of BPG is described as severe, with >50% in a cohort of 100 children describing it as an 8 or 10 in a scale of 0–10."