Personally, I hate having them put in without sedation. I'm probably lucky, but my PICC team gives me 3mg of Versed, and 80mg of Ketamine before my placement so I don't know what's going on and feel nothing. I didn't request any certain thing, I just told them I didn't want to be very alert. Maybe if you are worried you can request some kind of sedation. More than likely you'll only get Versed or something similar but it's better than nothing. I have had it done though without anything and mostly the only reason I disliked it so much is because it took about 3 times to find a vein they could thread it completely through. Also, the sight of blood makes me sick and I can get restless so they just drug me up and everything is fine.
Hope everything goes well for you too! Use the occasion to get a bit of the "happy medicine"! lol
Hope everything goes well for you too! Use the occasion to get a bit of the "happy medicine"! lol