Another call for “don’t worry about it.” I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, and the Peace Corps doctors are VERY strict about things. Every year a few volunteers would end up with positive TB skin tests and it was never a big deal. Even the people who did need to take the nine months of drugs were allowed to postpone that until after their service was complete, since “during your Peace Corps service” is a pretty difficult time to give up drinking.
I think the summary here is: it’s probably not TB, and even if it is, it’s a pretty slow moving disease and extremely treatable here in the US at this time. My thyroid is dead; I’ll have to take medicine the rest of my life. It sounds like TB would only need 9 months or so. If you’re concerned about the baby, have him/her tested too.
Went in for the results to be read this morning and the nurse said it was negative. She said the coloring (simliar to a bruise) was probably just that–a bruise from the injection. When I asked about it, she said that she was looking for a raised reaction like an obvious lump in or under the skin (which isn’t present with my reaction).
Stupid bruise.
Good, phall. Next time, don’t borrow trouble quite so fast. Babies are pretty tough, and modern medicine is pretty good. Ask yourself when the last time you heard of someone dying of thus and so in the U.S. (with decent treatment) was.
Good to hear. So you didn’t even make it to the second line of the flow chart.
You know the old saying, “When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras”? Well, I not only don’t think horses, or even zebras, I automatically jump to unicorns. One of the drawbacks to a very creative imagination. Does the worst case scenario happen? Not usually, but I can invision it in vivid detail…:dubious:
I guess I shouldn’t talk. I only recently found out that not everyone starts planning for the possible death of the person who’s not where they expect him/her to be, which I’ve been doing for about forty years now. 
points to her post up thread, detailing much the same problem
See? SEE?! Told ya.
Glad to hear all is well.
There is also the probability that you are reacting to the preservative that the drug is in. I’m an RN and I have to be tested every year. My test always looks a mess at first but by the end of 72 hours, there is never an enduration (hard raised bump).