I got the shot and I assumed everything was fine. I’ve grown used to the fire 🔥pain that always comes with it..(enough to grind ur teeth) But little while after my back was really hurting giving me this non stop pain but I made up excuse after excuse for why it was hurting & ignored it. Until i could no longer stand on my foot. All I could do is cry and scream out in pain! It was 10/10 pain nothing I’ve ever experienced. It almost felt like the thought of moving a muscle hurt! I had to call life squad twice for them to tell me there is nothing they could do. They sent me back home in the situation I arrived in. Im still currently bed reidden and suffering from immobility and excruciating pain on the left side where i recently had the shot. It doesn’t seem to stop either just constant radiation of electrical pain enough to make u just scram and cry beggin for it to stop. More recently my toes on my foot are feeling a lot numbness feeling. It’s a ruined my quality of lite so far hopefully only temporary but I’ve also lost wages let’s pray not my job too as a result of the nurse improperly placing my vivitrol and most importantly, let’s pray that I don’t develop dropfoot from their mistake . I will never go get that shot again!! The side effects or the medical mistake possibilities were never outlined as a possibility. I feel like that’s important we kno all risks. I’m over here fighting back tears now as I fight to type this with this severe pain in my leg. Dooont DOoo IY!!!!

Hi, I got the vivitrol shot twice, two years ago. The bump on my butt goes away and comes back. Or I should say, hard lump bump. Still itches. What. Do. I. Do.

I got the vivitril shot for months last year I got back on it month before last this time around I noticed and still have a hard lump where I got my second shot in my left part of my butt should I be concerned? I have no medical insurance will my doctor that gives me my shots get rid of it I’m going to sue them if they don’t do something

I have had nothing but pain from a vitriol shot on April 21, 2023. I have been in the hospital with IV antibiotics along with three rounds of oral antibiotics and surgery for the wound site. I now have a wound vac. This shot is not worth the risk.

I was recently hospitalized and the doctors told me they wouldn’t let me out unless I take the medicine. I asked them can I Kno the side affects or read it and they refused to show me. I was in there for a week and wanted to get out so I took the shot. Now my arm has been swollen and lumpy for over a week, I constantly have headaches, and barely get sleep but I feel weak and tired all the time. This shot should not be given to anyone with all the side affects that come with it. For a hospital or doctor to not inform a patient of all of this is insane.

I’m sitting down scratching my back an I feel this huge bump on my back at first I think it’s a bad spider bite that’s getting infected because it’s swollen Huge! An there’s a lil puss or fluid in it. Also it’s hot an itchy

I’m dealing with this huge itchy painful lump too!! The nurse that administered it said I need to go to the ER.. WHOS GONNA PAY FOR THAT?!!! I can’t afford surgical removal because of your negligence!! So do we just LIVE with this???? Seems toooooooo many people are having issues. The pills work JUST fine.. I’m gonna see how to get a recall on this crap!!

Hi- I’m an RN and have given Vivitrol shots without issue for years. Now managing a clinic where the injections are given using the shorter of the two needles, which ends up being too short and the medication ends up in the subcutaneous (fat) tissue, too close to the surface. It needs to go deep, into the muscle tissue, for it to work right and not give patients a bad reaction. It sounds like many people posting have had the same problem. Please, if you are getting this shot, ask for someone to give it who is comfortable with it and will give it deep, in the muscle tissue. I use the longer needle about half the time, and can absolutely feel when the needle hits muscle. The muscle should be felt before administration, so injector can tell where they are going to place it, so beware people that are reluctant to touch your backside, these are the same people who will inject it too shallow because they think the longer needle will be more painful, when in fact the opposite is true- if they don’t place the med in the deep muscle tissue, there will be lots more pain and likely a site reaction, as many have described here. Thank you!

I got the vivitrol shot in 2018 from a mental health facility and I still have a huge lump in my back side. Went to a surgeon in 2018 and they looked at it and said it would go away it never did. Charged me 500 just to look at it. I went to the emergency room as well they did a full body scan which cost additional money. Wondering if I’m needing to get it looked at again or if it’s just something I’ll have to live with now?

I got a shot in 2013 it occasionally still gets itchy and a big lump that looks like a mosquito bite. Drives me nuts.

I’m concerned about this shot. I received my 1st shot in the hospital before I was released and didn’t have any problems. When it came to the time I needed my second shot I was at the Behavioral Heath Unit here where I live. That’s when everything change for the worst. A hot hard large lump formed at the injection site and it was very painful. It seemed as if the injection site was leaking and it keep a scab. Another thing at times if I bumped against something it with send sharp pains for the injection site I reported this but nothing was really done about this. I only continued to get the shot because it was helping with my addiction to alcohol. So when it came time to get the 3rd shot my 2nd shot had gone down tremendously but it could still be felt under the skin. On the 2nd day lump started to appear hard like before and also very painful and itchy. As the day went on my lump grew larger and painful. It’s now messing with my mental health because I’m not having anxiety attacks because I’m thinking what will happened to me if i can’t get the shot.

Took the vivitrol shot 3 weeks ago and the hard lump hasn’t gone down last week it hot around the area I need to see a doctor and my back has been hurting since I took it

I just got the vivitrol shot 08-17-22 and it turned out itchy, warm, and also it had a bandaid over it. I finally took the bandaid off and it appears some of the medicine leaked from the needle hole. Has anyone else had that happen to them? Warm, itchy, and a leak with a pink bump? It’s not leaking medicine, but it did once because I feel like they put the medicine way to close to the skin layer to where it’s not supposed too.

I have a hard lump at the injection site. My monthly cycle has been thrown off and I am constantly nauseous.

I have a lump that is painful and causing muscle issues to the leg. The nurse keeps telling me that it’s normal but you can see it through my clothes.

I got the vivitrol shot on the 8th of June. By the second day the area of the injection developed a hard lump as big as my hand and the tissue surrounding the lump was red and hot. I’ve had three physicians look at it and they all have a different opinion. I go back in two weeks for a check up. I’m in pain and frustrated not to mention you can see the lump through clothing.

Need help over the effects of this drug.

I got my 2nd shot yesterday April 5th and was not able to sleep at all last night I have lil red rash type Dots all over my body have had a headache all night just so uncomfortable right now I’m kinda scared to be honest

I’ve been getting the vivitrol shot for 7 months now and noticed a small lump the forth shot or so this last shot the mass is huge like a hockey puck and painful to the touch. I just saw my primary care doctor who was surprised my psychiatrist wasn’t alternating sides each month. He is sending me for an ultrasound in two weeks and stated I’m going to need surgery. It makes me so upset because I felt that the shot was helping my alcohol cravings and now I’m afraid that I’ll have to stop. The pills made me nauseous so I’ll have to just pray.

I received my shot almost 3 weeks ago in my left butt cheek. All was fine a little sore afterwards. Fast forward the past week a lump has started to grow and I cannot sit it also feels like I’m sitting on a lump that hurts like hell! Can’t sit properly, sleeping is the pits and I did research on the side effects and I swear i did not read up on any of these side effects or I would have said no. I will NOT be getting anymore shots!! My jaw dropped when i read these stories, prayers to all and i will be contacting my primary care physician asap Monday morning!!

So I did my first shot in April 2021, and I got a lump and some side effects like a headache, but didn’t think too much about it did I was coming off heroin I didn’t know what to feel. I have taken 8 shots altogether but since the first one I’ve had server back pain and it feels like I’ve lost tissue at the injection site, then the last 2 shots I got the first 1 gave me hive,rashes,lumps, extreme itching, cheat pain,shortness of breath,panic attacks. I shrugged it off ( I don’t have health insurance and noone helps addicts wear I’m at) so I got my last shot about 40days ago and after that shot about 5days later I was in the hospital feeling like I was being waterboarded! I couldn’t get a full breathe of air in and the doctors either thought I was a hypochondriac or having a panic attack ( I know what I panic attack is I deal with 20 a day) but again no insurance and I’m just a junkie in there eyes so they discharge me I go home and sleep when I get up I can’t breathe again so back to the hospital They ran test on my lungs all clear no clots he didn’t even know I was a smoker they took blood oxygen levels they were fine. So gave me some Ativan and sent me home with a referral to a lung doctor. Now I didn’t know about the FDA thing either but I now have back pain,breathing issues, uncomfortable ichting, probably going to need surgery when I finally see a doctor about it which for me could take a year it’ll probably be worse. And it did it’s job I prt would have relapsed without it but now I have all the other problems that keep me from work. And I had an underlying mental problem that this made worse. Also I don’t know whether anyone else has noticed memory loss or loss of concentration or just forgot what they were talking about

I got my first Vivitrol shot Nov 2020 and I developed a golf ball size lump in my right butt cheek. It’s been 9 months and the lump is smaller but still there. I got my second shot 4 days ago and this time the lump is bigger the size of my palm it itches, hot to touch, sore and agitated. I’m concerned again and also feel self conscious about body image I don’t need a botox looking body as well as health issues. The shot helps with craving alcohol but the affects and risks are disturbing. When your trying to recover from this terrible addiction last thing we need is to worry about these horrible risks.

Body habitus should be assessed prior to each injection for each patient to assure that the proper needle is selected and that the needle length is adequate for intramuscular administration. *****this they didn’t do, nor did they do this most likely in most patients when there supposed to follow the proper instructions of giving the vivitoral shot.

Do not get this shot. Try the pills. I got the shot 2 weeks ago and my whole right side butt cheak is swallon and seems to be infected. I’m getting antibiotics tomorrow from a doctor. The pain from it hurts so bad can’t sit down stand up or lay down correctly. There were no FDA warnings about this vivitrol shot there at the office where I received the vivitrol shot. It’s getting worse and worse by the day. Stay away from this vivitrol shot. I will no longer be taking it. I took it once. Never again. Someone needs to pay for the damages we the citizens of America are enduring from the vivitoral shot.

I to had a horrible time with the Vivitrol shot. I got it in April and by May I was at a wound care center. Long story short I just had surgery and now have a huge hole on my upper butt. I’m currently using a wound vac and have to go 3 times a week to wound care. It has been a nightmare and the Dr admitted to me that the nurse used the wrong needle. Anyone have any success with a lawyer? This has affected my life in so many ways…Financially, mentally! I’m at a loss.

My husband got his third shot on June 23 and immediately broke out in a rash and went paralyzed in his right leg. He got rushed to an emergency room where they were only concerned about his rash (4 doctors said they’ve never seen anything like it) and didn’t check anything else or care he was paralyzed. After about 5 hours we got discharged and he was able to walk just a little bit and have a tiny bit of feeling back in his leg. We went to an ortho and spine doctor who did an emergency MRI said he had sciatic nerve inflammation and tissue damage in his buttcheek still two more doctors said they’ve never seen anything like his rash before. We then took him to a dermatologist who again said they’ve never seen anything like it but think he has broken blood vessels in his hip. We took him into urgent care five days later (as he is still unable to walk completely and the rash hasn’t gone down) they said the sciatic nerve and blood vessels were damaged and we are waiting on the results of some of his labs. The next day we took him to a neurologist who again said they’ve never seen anything like it and was completely unsure what happened. He did say there is sever sciatic nerve damage. We are exactly 7 days into this and not one person can tell us what’s wrong. If we knew the shot could potentially cause paralysis we NEVER would have gotten it for him. We’re still wishing for answers and hoping he can walk again one day soon

I got my first shot 3 weeks ago I developed a lump a couple of hours after receiving the shot. As of a couple of days ago it had just started itching non-stop and it’s dark red like deep bruising. I was told if it persists to contact my doctor. The thing is it’s on my butt. I’m sore sitting. I’m uncomfortable sleeping. Pain pills don’t really work I feel like I’m sitting on a ball. I will not get the 2nd shot as well and I need to find out what’s going on

I got the shot 3 weeks ago. Lump is getting bigger and hurts. The meds work though for craving. Calling doc tomorrow.

I went to get my first shot in early April, (two weeks not immediately) later I get a huge bump on my hip I repetitively called my dr telling the phone nurse that my bump is getting bigger and worse and I kept getting told to just put ice on it after a few days I finally just went in my dr promptly sent me to the er which held a whole new story I never for a second expected, I was rushed into emergency surgery and had so much skin cut out from necrosis that I have a wound vac for the next to months that they have to change 3x a week and the pain is excruciating if they know giving these shots to overweight people run a higher risk then why do they continue to do it when pill form is available? I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy! I was trying to do better in life and it feels like a slap in the face I am still sober a month later and on the pill I just don’t understand why they couldn’t have just started me on the pill and tell me if I lose weight I could get the shot I’m miserable my summer is ruined all because they continue to give this shot is subcutaneous tissue

I had my first shot 3 weeks ago no lump yet that I can tell but it is hurting more and more everyday there are times i can’t barely stand or walk because of the pain

Don’t do it! Don’t think it won’t happen to you! My husband stopped the shot after his fourth injection bc he couldn’t tolerate the side effects, a lump the size of a grape fruit or softball happened everytime. Horrible pain, unable to sit or lay down, very red, and hot, oozing (a couple times) complete misery. He’s not the type to complain about pain, he has a very high tolerance for pain. I have only seen him cry a handful of times and four of those times were bc of this shot and all the issues it causes. It should not be allowed to be given to anyone through injection!! He’s on the pill form now and doing great!! It was nice to only do it one a month instead or a daily pill but the lump and pain from the previous shot would still be causing issues when the next injection was due. The only way he could sleep was on his belly with a pillow to raise his butt up. It’s horrible! A law suit should be coming. A couple relapse happened after stopping the shot, bc he was afraid to tAke it in pill form. But like I said we got that straightened out and he’s doing well. Please please please there are other options don’t feel like this is something worth risking. It’s not! I’m going to tell him to go see a surgeon, bc he still has painful lumps from the injections that have not gone away after 6months of stopping.

I just received my 4th vivitrol shot on 11/18 and for the first time it did not hurt when getting it, which made me feel like it was done wrong. My usual mat dr was out that day so they had to go on a hunt to find a nurse that knew how to do it. Now 3 days later and i have developed a hard lump under my skin i would like to say the size of a golf ball but the more i feel it it feels wider than a ball. And after reading these comments and googling it, im a bit nervous and am calling my primary dr tomorrow.

I just had my second shot and also have a hard lump and lots of itching and slight pain. This was four days ago. After reading these comments, I’m paranoid as hell!

I received my first shot at the end of my rehab stint for alcohol dependency. The doctors said that the shot would help reduce cravings and it did as well as going to AA and therapy. I received my second shot and the doctor used a smaller needle than the one it came with. I developed a hard lump under my skin a day later that was the size of a golf ball. It was hot and itchy and made it uncomfortable when driving my car. I read that many people have had to have surgery to remove it. Has anyone had it go away on its own and was it caused by the doctor using a smaller needle?

I just talked to the nurse who did my first ever injection a couple of days ago about the painful, hard lump that only seems to be getting bigger each day. He had nothing useful to say…he just kept saying “I don’t know” to my questions about how to make it better and how long will it take to go away. So here I am after a quick google search and oh my god I NEVER would have agreed to try this if I had been informed of the risk!!! Seriously. Never. I can’t believe they don’t inform people that there is a risk. It’s not right. Does anything help the lump???

I just had surgery a week ago to remove the mass that I was left with because of Vivitrol and I have no health insurance because of COVID. So now i have 21,000 dollars in medical debt because of it. Is anyone in Ohio and do you have a lawyer.

I’ve had the abscess and issue in my hip also! I had the vivitrol shot June 16th and now i have a big hole in my hip after surgery a month ago and still trying to figure out how to treat. Is anyone going to do a class action law suit or want to???

I have all of this happen to me as well! My thought is what are people doing about this????? NOT happy! NOT going to sit quietly! I now have a deformation of my hip!!!!

My son has been to the E.R. 2 times in one month for severe abscess. We assumed it was a spider bite. We went through his room and cleaned to bottom and found no spiders. Looked up affects of vivitrol and guess what?? I just can’t believe this drug is being used if it causes these types of side affects. This doesn’t help the individual getting the shot, if he has to go to the doctor and get a abscess drained and deal with pain, we don’t want him to relapse! This drug needs to be pulled and replaced with something safer, if there is anything!

First injection ok. Second injection a sore lump form the second day. Will monitor site.

Received my second vivitrol shot on Wednesday 4/15. My first shot I had no issues except slight tenderness , severe headache for 2 weeks and sleep issues I have a giant painful lump at the site now (4/19) . I decided today to outline the lump with a pen to see if it increases or decreases in size. I will update in a few days.

I received my third ever shot of this poison on February 13th earlier this year. First two times having it zero issues. This time i immediately broke out in an allergic reaction, and was rushed to the ER. After 8 hours of screaming in pain to no avail none of the plethora of doctors seeing me could figure out what was happening. One doc finally ran a blood test to check my CPK levels and they turned out to be 25,000 (normal range about 0 to 100). I then lost all feeling in my left foot and was unable to move it whatsoever. After rechecking the levels they were indeed that high again and I had to undergo emergency surgery to remove necrotic tissue that was forming in my leg from something called Rhabdomyolysis. Afterwards I spent the following week in the ICU carefully monitoring my kidneys (if rhabdomyolysis infects your kidneys you die) and then broke out in a rash of cellulitis all over my genitalia. After my CPK levels finally went low enough they discharged me the following week after 7 days and I went home nursing “foot drop” and the genital cellulitis. I thought the worst was over. I was wrong. A few days after being home I noticed my left foot begin to hurt slightly and then gradually more and more everyday. It has now been two months since the incident and i experience everyday what i can only describe as my foot feeling like it has a lighting storm happening in it 24/7. Imagine the worst tooth ache you have ever had, multiply it by infinity, and put it in your foot. Doctors still have no idea how this happened to me and I cannot get any tests done right now due to the Coronavirus outbreak shutting down all non essential examinations at any facility. I sleep once every 4 days or so for about an hour or two after my body can no longer take being awake. Then the cycle repeats itself. I would not wish this experience on my worst enemy. I plan on suing both Alkermes as well as the clinic that administered the injection as the only side effect explained to me beforehand every time i got the injection was “possible liver damage”. my liver is fine. my leg and foot now have permanent nerve damage. thanks vivitrol. p.s. the clinic in question also failed to have me go over and sign the informed consent paperwork regarding the injection itself that weighs the risks involved. and also used the wrong sized needle (2 inch instead of 1.5 because he dropped that one on the floor and if you saw my 140 pound frame you would understand why that is also an issue)

Hey guys, I experienced basically the same side effects. Some side effects included fever, sore throat, chills, kidney stones, kidney pain, and large golf ball sized lump.

I had the vivitrol shot almost a year ago and that’s the only area that niggs actor that has trauma that I just had to get surgery on and it’s pretty bad. It’s caused me to be put out of work.

My bf was given the vivitrol shot and its been hell on him all he does is itch so bad until he bleeds we have tried everything to get it to stop the fda put out a warning in 2016 but they didn’t put out a warning that rhey took 250 people from around the world all got a vivitrol shot and all 250 at end study tested postitive for hiv and hep c. So then they did another study same way all 220 tested positive again so there is something in vivitrol to lower ur immune system very low what concerns me most is the fda warns it can turn your fatty tissue black and basically kills it but drug companies care about how much the drug makes not who there hurting..he scratches so bad he barley sleeps i sleep next to him so sleep is hard for me cause he itches until he says ouch n i wish i could help him..someone needs to file a class action suit on this company. Aloe helps the itching a little but not much so i hope someone here this drug off the market and they find something new. And there is a chanxe this drug can stixk to not the right nerceptors in brain..science to this day still cant tell us how our brains fully work so they cant fully understand a drug n one brain and expect the next be the same with same reactions were all different diffrent dna

Before, I got my Vivitrol shot I asked the nurse that I had read that one of the sides effects was a lump and maybe surgery that if it was common I did not want it done- she said that she has been putting many vivitrol shot and that never has happened. I had my first Vivitrol shot on 8/27/18- three days later I notice that the hard ball on the injection. On 9/7/18 I had two lumps on injection site one as big as a golf ball and very hard and one in a lower site no hard and all around of the hard lump was shallow and began to itch and was warm at touch. I went to the place were I had it done and the nurse told me that it was a normal reaction that sometimes happen and it will go away- I as her in how long and she did not know..she told me not to worry unless I began to discharge a liquid from it. I went home and three days later I called the place were I have it done because it was bigger, and I start to feel pain to be sitting at work because of the lump, my leg felt a couple of times like numb too- then I called the place were they put the Vivitrol shot and the nurse told me to go to my primary physician.I called the Vivitrol company and I asked them what was good for it, and If that was normal and if she recommend something for me to tell the doctor to give me since they probably have many people like me calling about similar reactions, but the girl that was on the phone was not helpful all that she kept saying was that I should go to the doctor- I went to urgent care and the doctor put me on antibiotics for 10 days- I am on my 4 day the shallow have diminish but the golf size, hard like a rock,lump still the same size-the small lump still the same and I still felt uncomfortable sitting for a while- I do not have itching any more I have another doctor appointment- Do any one have an advice? how long it took for the hard lump to go away? do I am going to need surgery? what else could I do?

Not only do i have multiple indents on both butt cheeks from injections, i had the weirdest tooth ache 3 weeks of the month. Nothing i took fixed it because it was a side effect! Not real. The worst thing that happened, i had a miscarriage as soon as i got off of Vivitrol. Exactly one month from when i was supposed to get my normal scheduled shot, my water broke. I was 6 months pregnant and had to give birth to a dead baby! Too horrible to mention.

I have a fat necrosis in my left buttock as a direct result of a vivitrol injection. My option is to have it surgically removed which will leave a divet. Has anyone come heard of this or know of any legal compentancy from this.

My 46 year old son has had 3 injections of this horrific drug. After the first 2 he developed a low white blood cell count and atypical pneumonia which would not respond to treatment. Along with the pneumonia he had severe panic attacks in the hospital. once properly diagnosed they were able to treat the lung disease. His third shot resulted in what i would describe as one of the worst detox episode I have ever experienced. Beating his head against the wall I had to restrain him from concussing himself. A hot shower every half hour seemed to provide some relief. Crazy talk and hallucinations were quite frightening. This lasted over 24 hours. He’s going back to the suboxone treatment as an alternate drug which helped him to function for over 3 years as a normal human being. There will be class action suits coming for this drug. Save your hospital records.

I was on Vivitrol for 9 months and had a very sore mass on only the left side. We decided to try only doing injections. On the right which was worked fine. Ive now been off the injections for over a year and the pain has come back on that left side. Its not constant. Mostly when Ive been very active for a few days. Its sometimes painful just trying to sleep or just walk. Cant seem to find much about ling term damage. Getting on that shot was probably one of the best decisions Ive ever made but wasnt expecting the pain to come back.