Hello,
I have suffered from HIV OCD since fourteen and have been tested over forty times. I usually go to an AIDS clinic and they are very kind to me (allowing me to watch them set up the finger prick and calming me down). Lately, I've been going to Labcorp and Quest to get the fourth generation DUO test and they need a venipuncture for it. On Friday, I went to Labcorp and explained my health anxiety to the phlebotomist who told me I was irrational for thinking they reuse needles. I told him I know but I needed to see him open a new needle and he got really out of shape. It sees whenever I tell phlebotomists or nurses about my OCD, they seem irritated and annoyed I'd even ask such a thing. How do you approach it so they open the needle in front of you without insulting them?