Nasty lump from injection...

[ralph_malph]

I got this lump in my quad after shooting some oil based anabolics. The shit was damn near the size of a golf ball and solid as all hell!! It showed up a few days post injection. It was just below the skin and barely in the muscle. My skin was a little irritated but it didn't hurt anywhere. I was afraid to go to the doc cuz i didn't want anything to stop me from competing a few weeks later. But I couldn't go onstage looking like this so I nailed it with a 22 gauge 1" and drew out whatever i could. I repeated that two or three times a night for about 4 or 5 days, going in at a different angle each time. Dumb I know but I wasn't thinking at my best with almost no carbs and cardio up my ass. All i was worried about was the show. Anyway, what I drew out each night was about 2 or 3cc's of dark as hell blood. I mean dark man! The size went down considerably and I did my show. But I could still feel it in there for a week or two later. I have no idea what it was. I shot the same stuff in just about every other muscle with no problems. This happened a while ago but I just thought of it now reading through some posts. I was wondering what you guys thought it might have been. I didn't think much of it at the time since I was delerious from precontest dieting. Any ideas?

Ralphie

[Scorpio]

was the lump bruised looking at all? Do you happen to use the z-track injection technique? I've had bleeders get trapped under the skin before, however there is usually a sign, like bruising.

[ralph_malph]

Ya know I don't even know what the z tracking tech. is so probly not. There wasn't any bruising just a little redness but nothing major. You think it may have been a blood vessel? Is that a "bleeder"? Everytime I go on my blood has a hard time clotting. My last heavy run I was deadlifting just 550 and a stream of blood shot out of my nose at least 4 feet in front of me. I thought it was kinda cool when I left the gym sweaty and bloody, it scares the housewives. But the lump was so damn hard, I couldn't imagine it was just blood. But what the hell do i know.

R

[house1]

my guess would be trapped blood aswell-- been there -- body soaks it up overtime

[ralph_malph]

Good to know it was just blood and not a big deal. I'll probly have to start poking around that area some time real soon.

R