Kevin B. Carpenter

Skin Problems at Injection Sites

Early this morning when I woke up to do my daily duties, I was feeling my leg where I had performed an injection previously and felt a lump.  I have had similar in the past right after an injection; when injecting into spots in my arm the skin actually is lifted for a while as the medicine sits there working on dissipating.  Same with my stomach fat injections, but within four hours the medicine is used and gone mostly.

In this case it had been over 10 hours since my last injection and it wasn’t even in that location.  That lead me back to my PM Tracker to see when I had put that injection in and found it was over a day previous.  I had heard of fat hypertrophy (lipohypertrophy) but not experienced it yet.

A site called bddiabetes.com had some information about them that I felt was good.  Though I follow all their guidelines (never reuse needles, rotate injection sites, rotate body parts I inject into etc) I seems I might be having one of these lumps.  Although that site is more specific to diabetes and insulin, I have read and been told it happens with any type of regular injection.

After rubbing it a bit it seemed to reduce.  A couple hours after finding it, it had reduced to less then half and then I had a hard time finding it again.  Either way its just one more item that I will ask my doctor about on my next visit.  Even if it too has dissipated.