Ok meso does anyone know why generic growth causes a slightlfuly painful red lump around the injection area? I find that around my core the lumps take a bit longer to go away as opposed to my triceps or thighs. I'm currently running taitropin an have been for a while now. I'm getting great results so don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
Ok there are just a few thingS that may help .
FIRST what are the likely possibilities?
1) An infection
2) An "allergic" reaction
3) Early signs of an unrelated illness
INFECTIONS
1) Infections like many things in medicine are dependent upon the type of bacteria, their number and the hosts ability to kill the bug BEFORE obvious signs of infection begin.
2) Are often associated with a palpable temperature increase at the site of redness.
3) May be painful IF enough tissue is involved (So an IM deltoid shot that hurts with deltoid motion is strongly suggestive of an infection.
4) The onset of "redness" typically occurs within 24 hours of pinning
5) Are classically associated with a fever
6) The redness has a tendency to dissipate from the middle outward (referred to as a centrifugal pattern)
7) The redness and swelling follows the lymphatic course as infections worsen
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ALLERGIES
Understand many allergies are the result of a specific PROTEINS being viewed by the immune system as foreign! So what type of PEDS have a protein based structure?
All PEPTIDES, IGF analogs, INSULIN, and rHGH
1) If you have ever been tested for TB the injection given is actually a protein called Purified Protein Derivitive. Other examples are RAST tests used as screening tools to evaluate patients w "allergies". When the site is innoculated with a suspected allergen, if the patient is "allergic" the that compound swelling occurs WITH OR WITHOUT REDNESS!
2) Generally the reaction maintains the SAME DENSITY of redness from the middle outward
3) Changing the depth of the injection (from Sub-Q to IM) does NOT effect the immune response itself, but rather hides it.
4) Most allergic reactions are very self limiting. Meaning the "reaction" may last a day or two and only rarely does it extend beyond 72 hours without other signs of "serum sickness" developing.
5) As I mentioned above many "allergic" reactions occur WITHOUT the development of redness!
6) Many allergic conditions are associated with itching
7) Skin temperature changes are generally NOT noted in an allergic RX
7) So chances are IF your pinning a protein derivative PED and develop swelling, redness within roughly 24 hours the likelihood is quite high your "allergic" to some of the proteins peptides or their fragments contained within that vail!
JIM
