Sudden Lipohypertrophy?!

[TheClockworkDodo]

I just injected a correction dose in my abdomen and a huge hard lump immediately appeared just where I'd injected 😱 I've occasionally had a small marble-sized lump if I've hit a vein, but this is much bigger, more like the size of a chicken's egg. I'd think lipohypertrophy, except that a) it didn't build up gradually over several injections, it came up suddenly, and b) it's not a site which is getting lots of injections! - I normally do one injection a day in each leg and one in each buttock, and only inject in my abdomen if I'm out and can't get to other sites, or on the very rare occasions when I need a correction dose. But I can't think of anything else that big which would come up suddenly like that in reaction to an injection either, and I'm sure it wasn't there before I injected, because I pinch up the skin to inject and I'd have felt it! As well as being big enough to be obvious, and quite hard, it's tender, like a bruise.

Anyone know if I can assume this is lipohypertrophy, despite it coming up so suddenly in a rarely injected site? Or should I see a doctor, in case it might be something else? If it is lipohypertrophy, can anything be done about it? Any advice gratefully received, especially if it's reassuring!

 

[KARNAK]

I would contact your DSN just to let them know and get advice, as @Benny G say`s keep rotating your sites.

 

[Kaylz]

I'd get it seen to, personally I don't think it would come up as a hen egg size lump instantly like that and I'd be concerned it was possibly a hernia rather than to do with you injecting, either way I hope the tenderness goes soon and you get to the bottom of it xx

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

Thanks all for your replies. So, last night when I posted it was about 6cm across, 4.5cm high, and maybe 3.5cm deep above the level of my skin with more depth below, stretching my skin out like an alien 😱... but I woke up this morning and while it's still 6x4.5cm it's now only .5cm deep, if that, just a slight bump on the surface - and it's slowly turning purple. So it looks as though it is "just" a bruise and I was worrying about nothing, though I've never had such a huge bump come up when I've bruised myself with a needle before, I normally only get little pea-sized bumps if anything! But a bruise makes more sense than lipohypertrophy in an area where I hardly ever inject - I should think I only do about 2% of my annual injections in the whole of my abdomen, so I'm really not over-using that area.

I'll talk to a diabetes nurse about it though if it doesn't keep behaving like a bruise and going away!