Hi, Haley...
I've had some really terrible experiences with PICC placements so they just "put me under". I get an IV and through that they put in versed and something else that pretty much knocks me out, but technically I'm still conscious. I'm sleeping through the whole ordeal and wake up to a nicely placed PICC. Its considered a surgery, so they make me go inpatient for it since you have to wake up from it and everything. Its pretty great compared to being awake through it like I used to be. I also have an anxiety and panic disorder and I would panic so badly when I'd get a PICC that the bed and my clothes would just be soaked even BEFORE they did anything! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">