Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

I hope that no one else has said this but if they have sorry! I tried using vicks but actually found something much better. There is a med called tiger balm that is used for muscle aches and has a similar smell to icy hot but it has a cinnamon hint. I know that sounds weird but I liked it much better. Just don't put too much because the tingling will kinda get weird in your nose!!! I bought mine at walgreens!!

Hey, that's a great idea- you can use it on your nose and then rub it on your poor, tired muscles at night!

haha I didn't even think of that! I let my cats smell it once and now when I even hold the jar they run away. It is potent but after a while the smell becomes quite pleasant. I did use it once for muscle aches when I started doing p90x!

JMO, but I think it's reaching a little to say 'if you don't like it, you should not be a nurse'. Who in the world likes it? Never saw anyone going into a room to change a diaper with the attitude they were going to a party. My professor in school, an RN for 25 years and now on her PhD, hated suctioning trachs. She would gag and absolutely hated it. She overcame it, but still to this day, hates to do it. Just think it's more beneficial to give encouragement to fears like this (didn't we all have one or another?) instead of saying someone should not be a nurse.

Nursingstudent424...it's okay to have these fears. I used to have an EMT on my truck (I'm a medic, too) who had responsive vomiting! Every time a pt would vomit, he would vomit, too! We analyzed it, and realized that he was just too into what the pt was feeling and we worked with just 'task orientation'...he was NOT sick, we had a 'task' to manage, and he realized that if he chewed gum, he didn't vomit. Weird, but we worked through it. You will get through this, too. I believe you will get used to it and as another poster said, it's way more uncomfortable for the pt than for you. Good luck!