Possible Abcess. When Do I Panic?

[njmuscleguy]

I'm sorta curious too.... what are the worse scenarios if those little rubber bits from the stopper get injected? from time to time I'll see them and do my best not to shoot them, but I'm sure something always gets by...

 

[BigCracker]

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=441176

 

[RADAR]

Got one now almost the size of a golf ball!
Very warm ,swolen forearm ,Redness,fortunately i know when somethings wrong, after 6 days it has finally started to go down.

RADAR

 

[big_boy_1]

OK, I did something stupid. Before yesterdays injection I noticed some rubber floating in the syringe from the stopper on the vial (it was chewed up from loading with a 20 guage syringe).

I figured I could inject anyway and just leave a small amount in the syringe so that I wouldn't inject the rubber. I was able to do that successfully but today I have a knot on my ass the size of a golf ball. I wonder if there was some smaller bits of rubber that I couldn't see or maybe just bacteria.

I'm not running a fever and the lump on my ass doesn't feel hot. So is there anything I can do to avoid a full abcess? When do I push the panic button and visit the doctor?

I am on 200mg/day of minocycline for acne, perhaps that will help me out.

Take some NSAID antiinflamatories, and calm yourself, if the rubber is small enough to go trough the needle, it wont do much harm

 

[KayKo]

I ended up stopping my cycle today due to the area being red/warm/firm...didn't wanna make anything worse. Basically right now taking keflex, got a jab of lincocin (sp) and a jab of rocifin (sp). The light fever has run its course, but the area is still red. No more UG products for me!!

 

[nydj66]

when i got to the end of my 20ml bottle of andropen 275. the last 2 injections gave me huge lumps in my ass. 1 stayed for over 2 wks. it was never red so i didn't panic. although, i did come close to trying to stick a needle in there and see if i could draw somthing out like puss.

It's interesting that the injection that caused me so much trouble for me was from the bottom of both my test-E vial and the bottom of a boldabol vial.

It's now 9 days after the injection. The site continued to swell almost to the size of a fist. It was and is a little red and it itches like crazy. I don't think it was an abcess but it almost seems like an allergic reaction. No puss and no fever.

I can still feel it there but the swelling has gone down a lot. I still think it's weird, I've done over 100 injections and this is the first time anything like this has happened. But it sounds like it does happen from time to time. Thanks to all for your feedback.