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8 years ago
hi im having a local reaction to my T injection and it SUUUUCKSSSSS
so I got my injection like two days ago, same spot as usual, same needle as usual, with the name brand instead of the generic I was used to. Everything's fine for like 5 hours. Because I get the injection monthly, it's an entire ml of cottonseed oil that gets stuffed into my leg, so I'm used to it being kinda sore later in the day, sometimes into the next day. But around like....midnight, it got amazingly bad. I was shaking and crying from the pain, it was fucking horrible. Worse than the worst period cramps I'd ever had. At like 7am my mom takes me to urgent care, where the doc decides that it's too late to be an allergic reaction (I also wasn't having any respiratory difficulties) and too soon to be an infection, so it was likely that the nurse at Planned Parenthood just accidentally hit a nerve in my leg which is causing the horrible pain up into my hip and down into my calf. In his words, he'd give it "tincture of time" and see what happens, and if the pain doesn't let up or if it gets red/inflamed to come back to urgent care.
It's not super impeding to the way I make art but it's a gargantuan pain in the ass to get out of bed and move. I can't bend my leg hardly at all, and I'm living at this point on water and ibuprofen. The remaining two commission examples are coming along, the next YCH will be here in a bit, I just waned to complain abt this dumb leg.
Only slightly related: I'm considering switching either to subcutaneous (I currently have intramuscular) injections, or to that neat little bead implant thing that they put in your butt flesh. Maybe to the gel/patch if the implant is too expensive. Anyone have any reviews for the above?
so I got my injection like two days ago, same spot as usual, same needle as usual, with the name brand instead of the generic I was used to. Everything's fine for like 5 hours. Because I get the injection monthly, it's an entire ml of cottonseed oil that gets stuffed into my leg, so I'm used to it being kinda sore later in the day, sometimes into the next day. But around like....midnight, it got amazingly bad. I was shaking and crying from the pain, it was fucking horrible. Worse than the worst period cramps I'd ever had. At like 7am my mom takes me to urgent care, where the doc decides that it's too late to be an allergic reaction (I also wasn't having any respiratory difficulties) and too soon to be an infection, so it was likely that the nurse at Planned Parenthood just accidentally hit a nerve in my leg which is causing the horrible pain up into my hip and down into my calf. In his words, he'd give it "tincture of time" and see what happens, and if the pain doesn't let up or if it gets red/inflamed to come back to urgent care.
It's not super impeding to the way I make art but it's a gargantuan pain in the ass to get out of bed and move. I can't bend my leg hardly at all, and I'm living at this point on water and ibuprofen. The remaining two commission examples are coming along, the next YCH will be here in a bit, I just waned to complain abt this dumb leg.
Only slightly related: I'm considering switching either to subcutaneous (I currently have intramuscular) injections, or to that neat little bead implant thing that they put in your butt flesh. Maybe to the gel/patch if the implant is too expensive. Anyone have any reviews for the above?
what in the world is that butt bead implant thing by the way? i've never heard of anything like it :-0
So like the butt bead thing was recently approved by the FDA and some Planned Parenthoods already have nurses trained in doing it. basically they're little beads that constantly release testosterone, and they go in your butt cheek and they get replaced like every 6 months. Implants can be tricky bc not everyone's body will take them, but if they work it'd be waaay easier than what I'm doing now! I think it's called testopel.