Weird Post-Injection Pain

Pharma / TRT
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This is my first cycle. I’m running 300mg test cyp/week. I took my third injection in left glute and injected lower on the glute than I probably should have. I felt a lot of pain the following day. MMA/grappling felt extremely painful around the injection site. At night I could barely sleep because every position was uncomfortable. I experienced soreness from the first two injections, but I know that it’s normal for a newbie to feel some soreness, so I wasn’t too worried.

The next day got worse and I started feeling feverish. At this point, I started getting worried about infection and started keeping a close watch. Pain and swelling started to increase, but there was no edema or other sign of abscess. The swelling covered a broad area–the whole outside of my glute and extending into my outer thigh.

By the fourth day, swelling and pain had increased more, I still had fever coming and going, and now there was redness surrounding the injection site. I freaked out and went to a clinic and told the PA I had a bad B12 shot in Tijuana. She examined, determined there was no abscess, and prescribed doxycyclene.

It’s now day 6 from the last injection and 3 days into the course of antibiotics. I’m feeling much better. Fever is gone, pain around injection site is noticeably reduced, and mobility has returned. There is still a lot of swelling in the butt/hip area, but it seems like things are improving and I’m probably not going to die this week.

What went wrong? If it was an infection, why did I not have an abscess around the injection site? There is a lot of flu going around my office. Could it have been a coincidence that my body reacted to weird location of the injection and caught a flu at the same time?

Thanks in advance for helping out a newb.

2

Unless the Testosterone was pharmacy grade and unopened it was probably not sterile - if it was me I would not use it again unless I was 100% sure it was sterile

3

It was UG, but got it unopened through a friend who has been using the same stuff for TRT for a long time. I used the same stuff for the first two injections. Does it make sense that the gear could have been dirty?

4

Possibly you injected into the fascial layer, gluteal insertion or some other pocket of fatty tissue. The fever doesn’t really fit, but can present itself if the histamine and swelling persist or worsen. Still finish the cycle of antibiotics regardless obviously. If you do give the gear another shot, do 0.5 into a delt or tricep and see if any local infection occurs before you complete the antibiotic cycle.

5

Thanks for the advice, Dave.

6

be careful with beanig clean, make the injection place clean with alcohol

7

Experiencing the same thing for past couple days after first injection. Fever and everything. Got my hands on some antibiotic and I’m going to give the gear another try and hopefully it was a fluke.