I have been on Betaferon for nearly 3 years now and apart from not being able to inject without using icepacks these days I haven’t had any real problems with injection sites.
I noticed a soreness on the right side of my tummy recently and guessed I had hit a muscle or something whilst injecting. Yesterday on further scrutiny I found an intermal lump and wondered if this could be down to an injection, it’s still a bit sore.
I do plan to see the doctor to check this out but wondered if I should be worried about this? Has anyone else had an internal lump appear after injecting, it is getting difficult to inject my tummy area as it’s becoming rather painful but I can just about manage if I use the icepack before injecting and have already stopped doing my legs as they were too painful. Any advice would be gratefully received.
Hi Wendy, sounds like you might have been overusing the area and this has caused a lump. I say this as someone who always injected her tummy against advice to rotate my sites. It did cause lumps after a while so it is probably caused by the injecting but get it checked anyway. Good luck x
Good site rotation is the key with beterferon. I over used my stomach area and ended up with a really nasty wound. Really importent to use all injection sites not just the favorite ones!!! Don’t use that one for quite sometime. I would have a chat with your ms nurse. I ended up changing from beterferon to avonax and now have no problems at all.
Hi Wendy , I was on rebif for a couple of years with no injection site problems , but with copaxone (again a few years ) I’ve encountered many lumps and bumps , I think it can go with the territory (so to speak) and there is a name which I’ve forgotten for these bumps and lumps ,
there was a time I couldn’t find a place in my stomach to put another one , neither could the MS nurse without studying it for a while , so the only thing they could advise at the time was to have a “holiday” from it for a while , got to say I’ve had better holidays
anyway , at the same time I seemed to be getting a few autoinjects that weren’t discharging properly , one didn’t discharge at all whilst in my leg so they weren’t helping the situation , the rebif auto injectors were (at the time) much better quality than the copaxone ones in my opinion , and I reported this , but , I’m just guessing it probably fell on deaf ears