Help--could shots of pain killers in the hosp cause muscle damage???

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I posted this the other day and was so hopeful that someone else out

there had some experience with this or knowledge...

Sorry to be a nudge, but this is really scaring me deep down and no

one seems to know why this has happened...including the

orthopedist...help!

JO

>

> HI all,

>

> Something strange happened to me...

> Seems I was showering like a week or so ago, shaving my legs when I

> looked down at my thigh and stopped short in shock.

>

> Seems that on the upper area of my thigh, I suddenly have a concave

> area...about an inch deep and about that wide-sort of, tough to

> verbalize. Anyway, I had slipped a bit a few days before and while

it

> didn't hurt and was not stopping me from walking easily -just a

spasm

> or 2 and so on...I thought it wasn't a big problem. But it was so

> different looking-my leg was, I had never seen anything like this

> just happen...it almost looks like I had a bioposy but am sure I

did

> not.

>

> So off to the GP...thinks maybe it's a torn muscle. I went to the

> orthopedist-had them baffeled. The PA was like I have no

idea...then

> the specialist hears I had surgery in AUGUST and that was the end

of

> it-almost...he's like did you get steriods?...I was like I think so

> but not shots, shots were only demerol that I know of. So I was

sent

> home to check on that. His thinking is that the direct IM Steriods

> may have caused the fat to disolve in that area.

>

> But I called the OS and nope! Just demerol shots. (ps-the orthoped.

> hadn't heard of this happening with demerol shots-but I have read

> that IMshots in general can do this, it was the first thing I found

> in my own research...but seven mths later????)

>

> so I am going into the OS-he wants to see and then prob off to get

an

> MRI too. ya-freakin-hoo. I love being the one with the something no

> one really has ever seen before...how comforting right?

>

> So anyone have any knowledge about ANY of this please let me

know...I

> am concerned and while not in pain or the like...it's uncomfortable

> and not something I want to wonder about-it's kinda scary.

>

> Thanks yall, JO