Are these common Gix? Easily done? Once you have one do you have to go to the Dr. and fess up?
Much Love,
Neoborn
Basically you have introduced bacteria deep into your tissue. The tissue becomes infected and puss forms. The area becomes red, swollen and inflamed as your body fights the infection.
What is needed is to treat it right away with the right antibiotic. Penicillin for instance will not work. It is best to go to the doctor...tell them the abcess was formed after you gave your self a vitamin B12 shot IM w/ a long needle. Never ever mention steroids.
They will drain the puss, bandage the area and prescribe a course of antibiotics. If you wait a long time you can have extra tissue damage and it may take stronger antibiotics to treat you effectively.
If you are poor and crazy you can attempt to do this yourself. You use a needle of the same size as the one you injected with and insert it in the same place. Once inserted you pull the plunger back and suck up the bloody puss. Withdraw and discard. You may need to get a fresh needle and syringe and suck out the remainder of the puss. Disinfect and bandage.
Then you administer the most potent antibiotics you were able to get...online, at a the pet store that sells exotic fish antibiotics, from the store that sells cattle antibiotics, etc. Then you hope and pray that you will heal.
All in all it is best not to get an abcess in the first place...but if you do then real not home-made medical attention is the best course of action.
Is an abcess common? No. Properly made...the filtering of the solution should eliminate all bacteria and some virus...what remains if anything will be killed by the BA solvent you used (2% BA will work for certain). The BB solvent will also do the same to a lesser degree. The medical literature has tested solution w/ 2% BA set aside for a couple of days and found zero bacteria, virus or other active infectuious contaminants in the solution.
Obviously using a sterile vial to hold the treated/filtered solution will help.
The act of rubbing the injection site removes bacteria from the surface of the skin. The alcohol pad itself isn't enough to kill surface bacteria...the rubbing of the pad however removes it from the site to be injected.
These things pretty much insure that an injection will not bring infection.
However unless you made the solution to be injected yourself you are trusting that the person who made it did so properly.
