<p>I get dizzy every time i get shots...</p>
<p>I'm not sure how I am around blood or me actually giving the shots, but I don't want to go too far into med and finding out I can't handle it.</p>
<p>The reason why I brought this up was because I had a conversation about med school wit my doctor. Then after getting two shots I got dizzy and ended up having to lay down, he jokingly said "I guess becoming a doctor is out of the question."</p>
<p>what should i do?</p>
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<p>You should not take your doctor's joke so seriously.</p>
<p>Well why do you want to go into medicine in the first place? This is a field where you really want to do it, because the training and work schedule and requirements are such that if you don't, you will be miserable. </p>
<p>Why don't you try shadowing a doctor for a day or so and find out if you like it - maybe if you can observe some procedures, you'll find out if you can handle the blood (it is a lot different when it's someone else and not you receiving the procedure). But also consider that any procedure you see will almost definitely be tamer than a lot of the things you will have to do even in med school - cadaver dissection, DREs (look that one up on Google haha), suturing, etc.</p>
<p>I'm the opposite - doesn't bother me to get shots. Don't like to see other people get them. Nonetheless I managed to give my husband shots when he needed them at one point - admittedly insulin needles ar short and fine so probably easy compared to some. You cannot tell that you cannot be a doc because you get dizzy when you yourself have shots. If you do some shadowing as an undergrad you well get a better idea whether you can deal with this.</p>