Abscess from steroid injection help please?

[6Damn6Ram6]

Hello everyone, haven't been here in a while. Here is my dilemma...one of my favorite spots to inject is my quads, especially my left one. I have a bit of scar tissue on the left from injections, but a little below my usual injection site a little red rash formed. The skin was just a little red. I stopped injecting in my quad about 3 weeks before that though. The little red spot got a little bigger. Now it is probably about the size of two quarters next to each other, has dry skin along the ends where the redness meets regular skin, and you can feel a little hard mass under the skin that's affected...which i'm guessing is an abscess. It doesn't hurt by regular touch, but if someone were to poke it very hard id be VERY FUCKIN UNCOMFORTABLE =(.

So that's my problem. My questions are, do abscesses go away? Do i have to go to a doctor? If so, what do i tell him? Or can i treat this at home? I've been putting Bacitracin and a bandage on it for a couple days now and the skin looks a bit better, but only very little. Any help would be really appreciated because i'm a little frightened by the situation....why would this form NOT in the area i inject, but a little below it?

Also, if it helps....I was doing a cycle of test cyp 750mg/week, pinning twice a week, pinning after showers, always new needles, different needle for withdrawing and injecting, wiping the area with alcohol swab before injecting, injecting very slowly.

Here is a pic

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[halfwit]

Go see a doc man, abscesses are infections below the skin barrier. Don't try to take care of it yourself, that will only make it worse. You can make up any story you want, or just play dumb - get it at least looked at before you end up with a big hole in your leg. There are so many ways to get an abscess, it would be impossible to place the blame on poor sanitary conditions or even bad gear for certain. Hopefully everything works out okay for you.

Edit: Now that you have a pic up, I'd DEFINITELY go see a doc/ER as that does not look good!

 

[TRT]

Just go into the ER and be truthful, they can't turn you away and they have to keep it confidential. Best to get ahead of it before the infection gets out of control.

 

[6Damn6Ram6]

Should i be truthful? or say i was using vitamin B12 in the quad....or the old "poked with a nail"story? =P. I read a lot of posts with people saying it will affect me in the future with insurance and stuff. What's your take on it? Because it does make me scratch my head since everything is in fact confidential

 

[halfwit]

Given the amount of changes to the United States Healthcare system right now, I wouldn't chance telling them I'm using a Schedule III drug. (Well, I can, but I'm on TRT.) Play dumb or tell them it's from a B12 inject like you stated.

 

[6Damn6Ram6]

Given the amount of changes to the United States Healthcare system right now, I wouldn't chance telling them I'm using a Schedule III drug. (Well, I can, but I'm on TRT.) Play dumb or tell them it's from a B12 inject like you stated.

I'm thinking of doing that. Any one else care to give some insight?

 

[Dapperdog]

I would say you were trying on some new pants in a store and when you slid your leg in you were poked by a errant pin. But it may be suspicious that you have marks and scar tissue build up.

 

[soldier74]

After ya get good check site injections.com so you can find the right spot to pin. You a bit off on that one bro.

 

[6Damn6Ram6]

After ya get good check site injections.com so you can find the right spot to pin. You a bit off on that one bro.

But see that's the thing man, it didn't form where i inject. I inject higher and more to the left on that leg. But the abscess formed there.

 

[jkr2020788]

To be honest you dont even have to tell them what caused it. People come into the ER all the time with stuff that looks like that and call it a "spider bite" or something. that is def an abscess. And the treatment for that abscess is the same as any other abscess like that-antibiotics. If you are running a temp, they will also draw blood and test for WBCs. Just tell them you have an abscess and if they ask what it came from specifically, THEN tell them the truth.

 

[jagbc]

you can always tell em u bumped into a sharp object like a nail

 

[SolomonGrundy]

yea say puncture from a nail , scratch healed but this popped up three weeks later

 

[KingBF]

if it was me id def not tell them the truth. as stated before on this forum your medical record is not so secret