Swollen Painful Injection Site

[Power36]

should have known better...I have a bottle of Test from a HRT clinic a few years ago, and back then I was injecting glutes and Id get a red rash and it would feel like it solidified into a golf ball in my butt cheek the next day...so after 2 injections I said screw this and thankfully had a new doc and was getting my Test from a chain pharmacy, name brand. No problems ever.

Well since I decided to try the Test SubQ, which before on the road traveling I have if I only had slin pins Ive done(since I read on an HRT forum guys do it with studies from Canada backing it and their own labs showing its good).

Well I dont want 7cc of Test to go to waste, figured if something was odd with the HRT clinic commpound pharmacy test, maybe I could SubQ it and use it up...wrong, left side of my abs are swollen and feels like a hard lump in there, painful to touch. Last time I used it I think it took about 3-4 days then it went away from my glute, so now I imagine I got a few days of a pain and swelling to suck up. Wondering if that means the Test in it isnt getting absorbed.

Guess I will have to toss the 6-7cc left I have of this 300mg/mL Test E....hate doing it but golf balls in my rear or swollen lopsided looking midsection with pain now is not cool.

What the hell could it be they put in there that makes it turn skin red, cause swelling, and feel pain to the touch?

I think a few years ago when this happened in my glutes I thought it was the BA. Ive done so many shots the past 3 years and never an issue with anything other than this one vial of Test...and its the same reaction everytime...guess I need to throw it away as much as that pains me!


I just googled the compounding pharmacy and it was shut down for distributing gear illegally through shady doctors and HRT clinics! Figures.\

It looks like someone shoved a banana under my skin on the left side....red skin, feels like hard banana lump...

I started taking an anti biotic just in case. Icing it before bed...

Chalk it up to DUMB worrying about money I spent compared to my health. Im sticking to pharm brand Test from chain pharmacies and never again a compounding pharmacy

 

[Zyglamail]

I started taking an anti biotic just in case. Icing it before bed...

Anyone with an answer would only be guessing so who knows and really what does it matter, stop using it.

That aside, stop using ICE! For starters its oil based, why do you want to thicken the oil? Second, how does your body heal damage and remove toxins? The circulatory and lymphatic system. If you use ice you cause restriction and reduced flow in both. Why on earth would you want to slow down the systems responsible for removing the toxins?

 

[Power36]

Wow. Thanks for that info....well I was icing it because on another forum that had a stickie on painful injection sites, they said to ice and do advil. Im not a fan of advil, quit all NSAIDs once college football was over and have not touched them since.

Ugh....yea got other stuff on my mind so not thinking logically, I was thinking if I should use a heating pad on it, but wondered why the one website forum said to ice...

Yes stuff is in the trash as soon as this swelling passes...just long shot in case something nutty happens I want to have it to show doctors.

 

[Zyglamail]

Ugh....yea got other stuff on my mind so not thinking logically, I was thinking if I should use a heating pad on it, but wondered why the one website forum said to ice...

The whole ICE comes down to waaaay outdated science that the medical community just cant seem to let go. people associate swelling/inflamation with being a bad thing but in most cases its a natural bodies response to an injury or infection and usually your body knows best. The exceptions of course are allergic reactions and the like.

Do some googling on the "healing cascade" and it covers the inflammatory process and whats concurring. When you interfere with that process you hinder healing.

ice is often part of the R.I.C.E. recipe toughted but its also problematic. he lymph system is driven by muscle contractions so if you rest and elevate an injury you reduce the lymphs ability to transport waste.

One of the best way to heal injuries for example is to promot blood and lymph flow by using heat and a TENS unit to stimulate the surrounding muscles to help transport waste.

 

[Power36]

I did heating pad today, gonna take hot shower now post gym, and wed I can get my hands on a TENS unit if you think I should hook it up around my abs to get things moving...injection was last Tuesday, and I still got a hard long hot dog or tootsie roll like lump under the skin

Getting tissue work or massage around it help? Ultra sound? Tomorrow will be a full week and still to have a hardened lump under my skin is weird, not like its small either...Im only happy that its not the size of a banana anymore and some of the red went away. Really does feel like the oil or ingredients in the test crystalized under my skin and turned super hard

 

[Zyglamail]

Your body heat should have prevented it from crystalizing so its hard to say what it is. A TENS unit if you can get your hands on would would likely help. You want to basically activate the area around it, but not real close. You need to stimulate the areas in the path of the lymphatic system to help move waste.

 

[Power36]

Got it...gonna try to get TENs unit on it today....also seeing my ART guy today, not sure about letting him dig into it....might keep waiting for it to slowly go away on its own, just going ever so slow, little more swelling down today

 

[Zyglamail]

Got it...gonna try to get TENs unit on it today....also seeing my ART guy today, not sure about letting him dig into it....might keep waiting for it to slowly go away on its own, just going ever so slow, little more swelling down today

He may be a good person to ask about pad placement for the TENs though.

 

[Power36]

Well my ART guy said it looks and feels like scar tissue, not any hardened oil in there...feels like other damaged tissue from other athletes he has seen recently but from other mechanism....they were wondering if the "hot dog" area is a pocket between skin and fat where the oil first went and whatever chemical was in it irritated the hell out of the tissue, and now its possibly forming scar tissue in response or something above my head....he did tissue work on and around it (last week it would have hurt to do so, this week its getting better pain wise), he did stim pad on my hip and then used the wand of the ultrasound to transmit the signal plus heat right on the hot dog....and ended with a little heating pad and TEMS unit....maybe Im just being a positive thinker, but I think it made it go down a little or t break up a little...

Crap man, hoping it keeps going away....lopsided weird ass swollen spot on my left sides makes my midsection look like hell haha

Lesson learned....if I ever pin anything that hurts or gives me a rash again its going right in the trash, I dont care what money I spent on it.