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I've been on Bicillin a couple months, just increasing to three shots/week a couple weeks ago.
I alternate sides. In the last three weeks one side gets extremely painful about 18 hours after the shot, hard to move around, walk, sit or put any pressure at all on it. The last couple times this has happened I have also ran a fever through the night of around 101 which is gone by morning.
The pain lets up in a day or two, never have any redness or swelling at the site, everything back to normal. This hasn't happened on the other side. Hoping it's coincidence, that the bicillin is doing it's job causing the fever (first abx to do that) and there's no problems with the injection site.
Any reason to be concerned about continuing to inject on that side? Thanks so much!
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kgg
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I don't know if the fever is a coincidence with the more tender injection. But I can tell you that over the 8 months I gave my son his Bicillin, one side was always more tender than the other. It hurt more to give it. It was more tender to touch afterwards. And it was also the side that would leak the Bicillin back out after the shot.
In spite of the tenderness, I continued to use that side because I thought it was important to rotate sites.
Do you put heat on it afterwards?
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