I’ve been getting Cyclane injections everyday in my stomach and Prontojest injections (progesterone, I think it has a different name back home) in my butt every other day since my transfer on February 14th. While it’s not fun, it hasn’t been that bad, stinging and burning at the injection sight in my stomach and a week or two where my stomach was black and blue. The butt shots, while they are horrible, they aren’t as bad as last time…until yesterday. Every night I go to bed and feel like I have a golf ball lodged in my butt cheek but I’ve learned to deal with it. Two nights ago, the pain was worse than usual. I got up the next morning and it was painful but nothing to really worry about. Well, as the day went on the pain radiated up my back, taking up the bottom right side of my back and my spine. It was extremely painful and felt swollen to me but I thought I was imagining things. When I got in the car to drive home I could hardly sit and when I got home I had to lay on my side so I didn’t put any pressure on the right side. When my husband got home I made him look at it, I didn’t tell him what was wrong, just that I was having pain. I didn’t want to influence what he said. Well, he didn’t even have to touch me; he just looked at me and said that my back/butt was really swollen and that we should go to the clinic to have it checked out. The nurse checked me out first then sent us upstairs to a doctor (mine was on vacation). I’m still not sure what happened other than it wasn’t an infection but some type of reaction to the medication. I’ve had about 35 of these shots in the past 2 months, why did it just start? They called my regular doctor and told me not to get my injection last night, come back if there was any redness or heat or the pain spread. Thankfully it hasn’t. It feels a little better today so hopefully I’m in the clear. ’m going to see the doctor tomorrow for a previously scheduled appointment tomorrow so we’ll see what she says. I’m supposed to be on the Prontogest shots for at least 2 more weeks and as much as I hate them, I’m also nervous about coming off them.
Anyone else have a strange reaction to progesterone shots? I can’t find anything on the internet.
