Infection from T injection?

[AJarrah]

I did my injection 4 days ago. Yesterday it was a bit swollen, but today it's gotten to be swollen with red blotches, warm, and painful to walk or move my leg in certain (normal) positions. So, I emailed my doctor that prescribes the Testosterone. She said to put heat on it and give it a few days, it should repair itself and if not, have it checked out. A little later my wife insisted that I should have it checked out now (she's in the medical field, it worried her). We went to Urgent Care and they said it *could* be infected, but I can give it a couple of days if I want to, or I can start taking antibiotics if that's what I want to do.

Question for you all,
have you ever had those symptoms and had it not be infected? Red blotches, warm to the touch, painful to move and a swollen area about 6 inches in diameter near the injection site.

[luna nyan]

Possibilities (without having seen it and I am purely speculating)...
Infection - did you follow correct hygiene/handling?
Haematoma - did you aspirate before/during the injection?

Those would be the most likely possibilities.  Given the fact that it arose 4 days after, and feels warm to touch, my suspicion would be an infection.  If it were a haematoma from hitting a blood vessel it would have come up pretty quickly after the injection.  The best advice would be to follow the suggestions of the treating physician you saw.

I've seen thousands of injections, and they generally don't get infected so long as hygiene is observed.

[AJarrah]

I always wash my hands, alcohol swab my leg in the circular motion as well as swabbing the top of the bottle of T, use new needles every time, I even put a bandaid on the injection site. It's strange to me. The only thing is that I accidentally did it in the same leg two weeks in a row. :/

[Robert Scott]

The exact thing just happened to me -- my wife is also in the medical profession - she's a nurse -- I did the heat things and it helped --- something to do with it getting trapped in the muscle in a weird way & heat relaxes the muscle and let's it move around.  Give it a couple more days and I bet you'll be fine

[GentlemanRDP]

I've never had these issues before.
If I did, I would probably go get it checked out.
Especially if someone in the medical field is concerned about it.

[AJarrah]

I've never had these issues before.
If I did, I would probably go get it checked out.
Especially if someone in the medical field is concerned about it.

I had it checked out, they told me "it may or may not be infected". That didn't tell me much...

[GentlemanRDP]

I had it checked out, they told me "it may or may not be infected". That didn't tell me much...

Oh....well, in that case, I guess you can either wait,
Or ask to go on antibiotics.
I'm no medical expert, and even if I was - if they couldn't tell you anything,
Then I wouldn't be able to either.

[luna nyan]

It's possibly a deep muscle bruise then.