TweetIf you injected any time of foreign object you would have major redness and swelling. The body would be attackingthis area and swell up to rush the blood to it with white blood cells to attack it. If you don't have redness, then you more than likely don't have a foreign objest.
1- You could, however, have a build up. That'w where the substance does not disperse quickly and stays in the facia. The blood will not be able to flow through the facia properly and this will cause some swelling.
2- (this is my guess) the facia in the delts are not as wide as the facia in the glutes or quads so when you increased the amount injected by 50% it was too much and you tore the facia. This will hurt longer and take longer to heal. Think of taking a couple months off from the gym and then going back and hitting it like you never left. Your muscles would be in so much pain from all the facia being torn down that it will hurt for several days. This is what I think you did.
When hitting areas like the delts with more than 1 cc I recommend that you use a longer needle like 1 1/2 and go almost all the way in, inject half the solution, then pull out half way and inject the rest. This will allow the solution to be dispersed through two different sections of facia and cause less tearing of facia. Also, with this method you don't have to change needles or spots like you would if you did 1/2 in one delt and hald in the other.
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