[abbalulah]

Well, I've had this phobia since I can remember, and I'm pretty sure my dad has it as well (don't really talk to him...anyway)

I have the greatest aversion to feeling my pulse. I start to hyperventilate when I get my blood pressure taken, and I start to sweat. If I'm running and my heart rate goes up, and I start to feel in it my wrists, I get really uncomfortable. I could never take a drug in my vein because just the thought of tightening something around my arm gets me sick.

It's hard for me to hold hands with someone because then I think about our wrists touching. I can't have anything tight around my wrists or my inner elbow...I get sick to my stomach and creeped out.

I don't know...I guess it's the fear of veins or the fear of a lot of blood in veins...the fear of pulse points. Could there be a name for this? venapulsusophobia...the fear of pulsing veins?

Thanks for helping me out.

[ALi26]

I don't know the name either. But, I used to constantly check my pulse and I have obsessive compulsive disorder and panic disorder. I started checking my pulse after having my first panic attack and thinking that I was going to die. After that, whenever I would get short of anxious about the rate of my heart, I would check my pulse. I don't do it anymore. Anti-deppressants helped stop that.
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[justaman]

I probably don't know the name of your phobia, the closest I get is 'cardiophobia' which is fear of the heart. Googling this one is very hard as lots of phobia sites have the word pulse, but only as a symptom of phobias.