Pain + Swelling After First Pin (see pic): What happened?!

**razman** · 12-03-2014, 11:08 AM

I completed a 12 week test E only cycle earlier this year and it all went over without a hitch. I just started my second cycle (200mg/wk NPP + 400 mg/wk test E + AIs + hCG ) and my first pin was about 40 hours ago. However, something very strange has occurred, which never happened to me during my first cycle, and admittedly has me a little concerned. See the pic of my leg where I administered the pins below:

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The BLUE arrow is where I injected about 1mL (100mg) of NPP. The RED arrow is where I injected about 1.2mL (240mg) of test E (accidentally injected .2ml too much). I used a 20g drawing needle and then switched over to a 1 inch, 25g for pinning. The ORANGE arrow is the site of the redness, swelling, and pain (only when touched or muscle flexed). Notably, the site of the swelling/redness is about 4 inches away from the closest pin!

About 12 hours after the pins I felt ok except for some soreness near the site of the injections. There was no swelling or redness.
About 24 hours after the pins there was swelling and pain but no redness near the orange arrows. I found it difficult to flex the muscle and consequently it was difficult to walk.
Now, about 40 hours after the pins, I feel as though the cause of the swelling and pain is coming to the surface of my skin... really hope this doesn't turn into a scene from Alien... and now there is noticeable redness when there wasn't before. On a positive note though I am finding it much easier to walk and flex the muscle.

Two questions:
1) What could have caused this?
2) Why the hell would the site of the swelling/pain/redness be 4 inches away from my closest pin?

Thanks in advance for any help.

As you can see from the pic

**Juced_porkchop** · 12-03-2014, 11:11 AM

Some oil is out of muscle and has moved down to knee area floating around causing irritation, IMO. I have had it happen a few time were my knee gets weird, thats my explanation anyway

**diesel101** · 12-03-2014, 11:16 AM

Yep I agree with Juice but I would be more concerned about the amount of hair you have there Chewbacca.

**razman** · 12-03-2014, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by diesel101

Yep I agree with Juice but I would be more concerned about the amount of hair you have there Chewbacca.

lmao!

**Joco71** · 12-03-2014, 12:20 PM

Lol!! agreed^^^^^

**riverghost** · 12-07-2014, 05:49 PM

Same thing happen to me I am an ass pinner and I tried my thighs for the 1st after much debate with myself I said ****it and done it after all the bad stories off people not being able to walk. I was ready for the worst and it was painless (Test C) for the 1st 3 shots in the legs THEN the 4 came and I did legs right after and my knee is fing HUGE injection site is good to go but it been 3 days now and i can walk again still sore and stiff but fever and swelling is going down. I am due for my fifth and I am SCARED now after I inject NO leg work I repeat NO leg work.

**Buster Brown** · 12-07-2014, 05:58 PM

That is common and hopefully you will be all set in another day or so. Sometimes it's too much BA or the compound is crashing, poor injection protocol...... Etc. Getting pip in the quad is tough and hard to hide the fact that something is up. I usually just pin glutes and shoulders when this starts to happen.

**kloter1** · 12-07-2014, 06:56 PM

Nothing to worry about bro, whenever you inject and either stand all day or go to bed the oil is going to move because of gravity. When i inject in my quads it ends up moving down the leg a little bit its not going to stay right where you put it. Youll be fine..

**Baxter35** · 12-08-2014, 08:03 AM

+1 nothing to worry about. Most likely a reaction to the BA content since this us a different batch of gear and also different compounds than your previous cycle. I had the exact same thing happen and after it cleared up(3-4 days), it hasn't happened again.
BTW...take advantage of this cycle to train those legs!

**razman** · 12-09-2014, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Baxter35

+1 nothing to worry about. Most likely a reaction to the BA content since this us a different batch of gear and also different compounds than your previous cycle. I had the exact same thing happen and after it cleared up(3-4 days), it hasn't happened again.
BTW...take advantage of this cycle to train those legs!

Thanks everyone. As some of you mentioned it cleared up just fine. It took about a week though but all is good now. I've been pinning my quads since and haven't had a problem.

I will try the glutes every now and then but damn it's so hard to reach.