Pulsating muscle

[SallyRees]

Anyone else experience a pulsing muscle after they’ve injected IM? It’s happened to me a few times now after I remove the needle. It lasts around 5 mins, strange sensation. It literally pumps like a heart beat 🤷🏻‍♀️ Is it something I’m doing wrong that causes this?

[Puncho]

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[SallyRees]

Just me then ☹️

[Narwhal10 in reply to SallyRees]

Hi SallyRees,

Sorry, I meant to reply but haven’t as yet. Was indisposed yesterday.

I don’t know everything, I’m just using logic here. When we introduce a needle into a muscle, it stimulates a biological response and there’s a degree of sensitivity.

We can become more aware of what is going on in our bodies at a particular location. (Called fine touch) As long as the throbbing goes then I feel that is fine.

It’s not necessarily, you are doing anything wrong, just the messages from your muscle via a particular ‘pathway’ to your brain is sensitive.

For me, I struggle to inject in my right side (more painful) and now using an electric toothbrush makes me want to pass water. 🙄

[SallyRees in reply to Narwhal10]

Thank you so much for your response, Narwhal10. I hope you didn’t think I was being rude with my last comment, I truly wasn’t. I just literally thought it was only me and I may have a weird muscle.

It’s funny that you say you find it more painful on the right, I’m the opposite and when the muscle pulsates it’s only ever on the right. So maybe I’m too relaxed and that then invokes the sensitivity you talk about 🤷🏻‍♀️

Note to self* Stay away from electric toothbrushes. Washing up is bad enough for me 🤣🤭 x

[Narwhal10 in reply to SallyRees]

Gosh no, I would never think anyone on here was being rude.

In my mind, people are coping with extreme pain and fatigue so even if someone was flippant which you definitely weren’t, I would be understanding.

My beloved was about to tell me off for speaking to him too abruptly. He realised there was a problem when I doubled over and made a noise like Lurch from the Addams family.

My chiropractors are great at telling me what to learn to explain responses. But it’s quite technical with lots of long words.

🤣x

[SallyRees in reply to Narwhal10]

🤭🤣 Sorry I shouldn’t laugh but can relate to that Lurch comment.

Love long words, if only I could remember them when speaking 😆 x

P.s Thank you 😊

[Narwhal10]

My pleasure.

🤣 I do Lurch, Quasimodo, Sloth impressions to name a few 😂

X

[Cherylclaire Forum Support in reply to Narwhal10]

Not to worry - I spent the time waiting in the supermarket queue this afternoon making involuntary overlapping loud sighing noises. While my partner doesn't even seem to notice these days, everyone in the neighbouring queues either jumps, stares or smiles. I think they assume it is a Tourette's tic. Can be quite exhausting this, can't it ?

[SallyRees in reply to Cherylclaire]

My husband thinks he’s in the dog house when I take huge signs or thinks somethings wrong. He’s nicknamed me Eeyore 🤣

[Cherylclaire Forum Support in reply to SallyRees]

I'm that loud that if I was on court at Wimbledon, I'd be sent off by the umpire for trying to distract the opponent !

[SallyRees in reply to Cherylclaire]

🤣🤣🤣 15 love!

[Narwhal10 in reply to Cherylclaire]

Oh my goodness,

I struggle queuing, my brain doesn’t like being upright & still. I feel dizzy (orthostatic intolerance). I fool it by jiggling and goodness knows what noises I make. Plus, I generally wear funky clothing for my own amusement.

The other day I popped to my very local shop. Sorry if I’m repeating myself - I had on a pair of astronaut llama leggings & due to light drizzle I had chucked on an anorak which has Batman emblazoned over it. A fellow shopper looked me up and down, broke into a huge smile and I realised saying, they don’t let me out often. That’s the nature of P.A/B12D

[Cherylclaire Forum Support in reply to Narwhal10]

Astronaut llama leggings ??? You've made me smile too.

[SallyRees in reply to Narwhal10]

When I’m in a queue I’m usually desperate for a pee and do the wee eee wiggle. We deffo shouldn’t go out together 🫣🤣x