Hi, tonight I have injected into my thigh and i am really in pain, it feels almost like I have pulled a muscle. this has happened before in my arm. has anyone experiened this? I wonder if I have hit a nerve or something.
thanks
Hiya.
You don’t say which DMD you use so not sure if it’s a known thing…I’m on Copaxone and often get really bad pain after injecting, the Copaxone nurse said she wasn’t too sure why as my injection technique was fine, she said it is something that can happen though. The only thing I’ve found that helps is to use an ice pack for a few 5 -10 mins afterward. I used to have to do it almost every time, especially when injecting into my legs, now it’s only once in a while but I always keep the little gel ice pack in the freezer just in case.
Hope that helps
Sue
If it is copaxone, it may be you have injected into the muscle. I often get this, but have figured out I need to adjust the autoinjector depth when injecting in different part of the body. My legs seem to hurt the most due to increased muscle. Not sure if this helps you
Yes I use copaxone too. It did feel like I had pulled a muscle and for around 40 mins it was very painful, thankfully gone away now. I use the auto injector and I am thinking of swapping to manual as I am also getting lumps under the skin too, I think the injector is quite harsh when you first click the button. I am such a delcate creature 
Not wishing to throw a spanner in the works,but I am on copaxone and used to manually inject,but I am trying with the autoject to see if I was going in too deep manually…yep you guessed it loads of lumps and pain for 3-4 days after doing legs and lumps that are so painful in my arms that it makes sleeping on my side uncomfortable again for 2-3 days.
My nurse tells me I need to be massaging the lumps harder to try and disperse them as left for too long they will never go.
Anybody got any ideas on how as my hands havent got the strength to do it and there are so many…nobody else will touch them as is gives them the heebies?
Sorry about that Sue doesnt really help you does it.
Pip
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Hi, tonight I have injected into my thigh and i am really in pain, it feels almost like I have pulled a muscle. this has happened before in my arm. has anyone experiened this? I wonder if I have hit a nerve or something.
thanks
Hi Sue
I stopped injecting my legs as it became too painful. I tend to find flabbier bits for me are best. I suppose I would say that my abdomen and buttocks are the best places but having been doing this for 3 years now, it is sometimes difficult to find a place where it doesn’t hurt. If it is painful when I push the needle in, I often remove it and inject elsewhere, this seems to work.
Good luck with it, my last arm injection is still hurting from Tuesday, I think I may have hit a muscle that time!
Wendy x
I’m on copaxone & injecting free hand (depends on how wobbly my hand is that day!) and I doi get pain sometimes. In my bingo wing is the worst.
im on copaxone and i used to inject thighs, back of arms and hips , tummy. had to stop doing thighs and back of arms. was sometimes so painfull. i very nearly passed out when i injected my thigh once. i told my ms nurse and she said to just do my hips and tummy which i now do and have no problems at all now… touch wood .
You shouldn’t be getting lumps from the injections, that is why you rotate injection sites between arms, hips and thighs or between locations on the thigh. If you repeatedly inject yourself in the same location without giving it time to heal, your body will respond by “toughening” that area because it believes you are being injured there and need more protection. Which is what the lumps are.
The reason i chose Avonex was due to the weekly dosage, allowing me to only visit each injection site once a month. I realise some of the other drugs require more frequent injections and that was my primary concern, that the frequency would create tissue damage.
Further to my last post, if you are injecting into the muscle, I was told to massage the muscle beforehand and after injection. This firstly relaxes the muscle which will cause less damage and then helps disperse the fluid injected afterward.
If the needle is moving at all while inserted, you may be bruising internaly. If the fluid is being forced into tight muscle or muscle which is not big enough to absorb the fluid you will likely suffer pain too. You may wish to try injecting more slowly, the force of the fluid entering your muscle could be causing the pain.
Thanks for all your replies, seems I am not alone. I stoped injecitng in to my arms as I was in so much pain on one occasion. I agree the hips and belly are the best sites.
I did notice however last night that on the auto inejctor the depth (number bit) had moved right down to nothing and I bet this conributed to the lumps and pain. I will be keeping an eye on that.
Thanks again to all who replied.