When to Contact Your Doctor About Injection Concerns Contact your prescriber if a single injection triggers severe nausea lasting more than 24 hours, unexplained muscle weakness, signs of infection (redness, warmth, swelling that worsens after 48 hours), or repeated episodes of intense side effects that you believe are tied to injection depth
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Toxic solvent residues DMF (dimethylformamide) Known liver toxin Associated with reproductive toxicity Must be removed to extremely low limits in GMP drugs DCM (dichloromethane / methylene chloride) Probable human carcinogen Central nervous system depressant Dangerous even in small amounts if injected TFA (trifluoroacetic acid) Corrosive Can remain in peptides as unmeasured TFA salt Pharmaceutical products often convert TFA salts to safer counterions Without validated HPLC, mass spectrometry, and residual solvent testing, patients may be injected with harmful chemical contaminants
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