signs of an infection

[fergie]

What are some of the signs of an infection? My shoulder is swollen very painful and warm to touch should I go to the hospital or wait a couple of days?

 

[Ulter]

When was the shot?

 

[Ulter]

Sorry, is it hard? What did you shoot?

 

[fergie]

shot was yesterday, yes its hard... IP Supertest 1cc

 

[Ulter]

Does it "look" swollen or does the hard area make it "feel" swollen?

 

[fergie]

its definitely swollen

 

[Ulter]

If the pain gets worse but the swelling doesn't by tomorrow you should be OK.
The chances are, because it's hard, you ruptured a vein by putting the oil in too close to it and bursting it with the oil pressure.
This usually gets more painful over 72 hours and then drops off. If your swelling gets worse then it may be infected. But that usually takes longer than it did for you to get started. If you have antibiotics start taking them. It can't hurt.

 

[shamrock11]

A tale tale sign of an infection is a fever or a rise in body temp. If you take antibiotics make sure you have enough to take them twice a day for seven days. Anything under this could cause more problems.

 

[buffalo]

I had the same problem a week ago. The swelling stopped after 2day's but the pain took like 4 day's to stop. I just got some antibiotics from the doc and he said to put warm compresses on it a couple times a day. It seems to be working,you might want to try that. Good luck.

 

[fergie]

day 3 - swelling has went down a little but redness has increased down towards my bicept area.