I was bitten by a rabid fox in 1992. I’ll tell you right now, I wouldn’t have cared if those needles felt like a thousand molten knives.
Better than the alternative.
On treatment for other issues, I have had tubes shoved into my side entering my lungs after scalpels cleared the way.
The Doc said, it's gonna hurt...I said, do what you need to do.
I remember the pain fondly if I can remember it at all.
As my brother says, "It is what it is."
"You deal with it like a man."
In what seems like a previous lifetime, I was a Peace Corps Trainee getting ready to go to Afghanistan. I was given rabies shots (in the arm) as a precaution. It was supposed to be 80% effective. This was to give us a chance if we got bitten and couldn’t get to India in time for real rabies treatment. Anyway, as the shot was being administered, I could feel my arm muscles start to contract & relax as the vaccine was going in. An unpleasant shot, but not worth dying over, even if administered in the stomach.