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How to get phoebotomoists to change their needle without insult?

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?
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It really isn't fair to ask everyone else to manage and accommodate your OCD.  The real answer is to get into therapy and explore the possibility of medication to help you with your HIV OCD and help you get out of the pattern of testing and re-testing for a disease you probably haven't had any risk of contracting in the first place.  This question is basically asking how you can get other people to accept your irrational thoughts, and most of the world just doesn't work that way.  I can see why the phlebotomists are insulted - from their perspective, you are basically insinuating that they don't know how to do their jobs and would be careless enough to put patients at risk.  

Are you in any kind of treatment for your OCD?
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