injection lump

[Lhood08]

ok yall 😂 I just did my 10th self injection into my thigh! This time a lump formed that’s a little painful…but it’s not directly underneath the injection point! It’s off to the side of it. It’s not red or raised very high, but it hurts to touch. The center of it is about an inch away from the injection site. Any thoughts??🤡💩

[wedgewood]

This has happened to me when I used the sub~ cutaneous method of injection. I solved it by gently massaging the injection spot for a. couple of minutes immediately after injecting . Doesn’t happen if I use I.M. injection

[Baggy8]

Yup! I've decided I'm too fat as I get this every time I inject my fat tummy! Having tried both sub cut and IM all over, I've just gone back to IM in the upper arm cos for me that the easiest ☺️.

[Treesong2023]

I got my SI skills from here.... and looking at YT videos - perhaps you might share your SI technique? Not for criticism - just to share ideas with the wise owls i know we have in here.

A few pointers i picked up for SC mainly ..after getting bumps and sometimes bruises..

- use the finest / thinnest hypodermic needle you can get for the injection = 30G

- let the alcohol swabbed area fully dry...its the alcohol drying off effect that cleans the area

- dont " jab " hard - its slow steady "flow" movement - gentle firm flow.

- if you have enough of a fat layer - you dont need to "pinch up" the stomach flesh - and use 90 degrees angle - not 45 degree

- stretch the skin a little as you inject to get skin "recover" over the injection point

- dont inject too close to the site you used last time

- do a gentle with two (clean) fingertip massage of the injection site after the SI - 30 secs

- when you withdraw the needle - do that very slowly - making sure you use the same angle it went in. Otherwise the needle can be "angled out" if you dont take care - this was causing my tiny bruises...

Hope this helps a tad.

[olgadimitri]

This happened to me. I applied liquid iodine to that swelling for several days and it went away

[Oneash]

Double check that you get the air out of the dose before you inject.