What = a bad shot?

[gicantor]

Did a shot this past saturday in my quad. I have a lump there, sore if I touch it. No heat or redness and I can flex and workout with no pain.

The weird thing is I can feel something swollen under there. But its not a bump it's long. Probabaly a half inch wide and 3 inches long. Like a strand of muscle?

I have had this happen twice before. Once in the glute. Once again it looked like I had a half a baseball sticking out of my butt cheek but if you felt it you would feel a long strand again.

Once happened with a delt shot too.

They always go away after a week or so by themselves. So what exactly is it? What is a "bad shot"? Did I nick a nerve? Missed the muscle during injection?

[JifeLacket]

Sounds like a nerve.. maybe a more major nerve?

have a look

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_cutaneous_nerve_of_thigh

[gicantor]

^^^Hmmm interseting read JL......the injection went perfect though no pain, unless the oil landed right beside the nerve and is aggravating it?

[kloan]

Happens to me fairly often.... I've still only been shooting my glutes, 3cc each time. Some shots are like butter and don't hurt at all days later. Whereas every so often it'll swell up over the next couple days and get sore, but goes away by day 4.

Personally, I think it has more to do with site irritation and/or possibly oil leaking out from the muscle. Perhaps it's the location specifically, whereby the muscle itself is a smaller fiber and can't handle the oil as much as a bigger one. This would make sense in the quads as well as the glutes, because it's some muscles grouped together, some smaller than others. In my glutes, if I shoot a little too high, it swells up length-wise, most likely the shape of the muscle I injected into.. a little further down is a bigger muscle in the glute and is less likely to swell up... so maybe the same thing applies to the quads.

Whenever it happens I always deeply massage the area to work it in. Seems to help.

[gicantor]

^^^ thats how my glute one was too. I shot it high and it was lengthwise aswell.

[St]

I had this often with my glute shots,size of a golf ball,would go away after 2 weeks.I see many people with legs shots,and delt shot just like you said it will go down time,just keep the Quads(Vastus Laterialis muscles) shot to a max of 3cc per week.Some oils are a little thinker than other,while EO is super thin.
Also Rapid injections create pressure and destroys tissue, causing discomfort for the patient.