Never been glued.
I've also never seen the point of getting stuck with a needle 12 times to "deaden the pain" of getting stuck with a needle 12 times.
wrongway
I've gotten about a dozen stitches to my wrist without any anesthesia or numbing up before, with some shock and amazement afterwards from the young ER doc that did the work (and the "procedure" included a thorough saline rinseout of the cut and exposed goodies within, now THAT was uncomforitable).
Compared to the actual injury it was nothing and I fully agree with your point, a needle salamander is a needle salamander, but if I had the choice again (or in this case - knew I had the choice), I'd ask them for the morphine or something first. It wasn't the salamanders that bothered me, it's the feeling of so much string being run through you that's the weird/uncomforitable thing to me, kind of a nails on the chalk board feeling as you're watching and feeling it. I got some "double-layer" stitches too (what they explained them to me as) in that lot, those sucked twice as much as the regular ones.
I had little choice and had to get stitches in this case, and one end of the cut hit a tendon that was tough and made for a difficult "frayed" end/edge on one end of the cut, but the doc I got was a good stitcher and pulled a great job off on that end of the cut.
