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Vanese Madix has struggled with anxiety in lockdown Vanese Madix has contacted her GP over 50 times since the beginning of the pandemic and lives in constant fear she has a life-threatening illness. “I’ve called about a sore rash on my back, an ongoing condition I have with a stuffy nose that makes it difficult to breathe and I even asked for a blood test once because I was feeling weak and tired and couldn’t understand why,” says the 25-year-old writer from East London. “Every tickle...

Afraid of needles? Flexing your muscles could mean you can still get Covid vaccine A Covid vaccine jab will be a trial for those with trypanophobia, but there is hope, writes Fiona MacRae Millions in Britain and Ireland will be offered the coronavirus vaccine in the coming year but trypanophobia will prevent many from getting it Fiona MacRae 24 December, 2020 01:00 Research by a Dutch scientist shows that 40 per cent of people with a needle phobia...

From trips to the dentist to vaccinations, injections are a mainstay of modern medicine. And, while its fair to say few of us really like them, the mere thought of a needle is enough to make some pass out. Up to 10 per cent of the UK population has a needle phobia and, with the biggest vaccination programme in Britains history under way — in which at least 30 million adults are due to be offered two shots of the coronavirus vaccine — millions of trypanophobics, as needle phobia is known, co...