I had an infection in my left arm from a blood draw that caused swelling in the area of the blood draw to the wrist. Went to a doctor who put me on antibiotics and after five days I went to the emergency clinic and the doctor doubled the antibiotics for a total of 10 days beginning with the first doctor and the swelling went down and the red rash disappeared. Five days went by and Popeyes s elbow appeared in the same arm and it developed a big sack on the elbow and NO pain. Elbow works fine except for the fluid sack that won t go away. The doctor says unless it gets bigger or causes pain don t worry about it unless I want it removed. It has been almost three months and nothing has changed, same size big sack of like gel and no pain. What s up? Both doctors don t fell the blood draw caused an infection
Hello, It seems you are having omicron bursitis. If its large and cosmetically problematic or physically hindering your day today duties you can surgically remove it. You don't have to wait until it get infected to do the medical intervention.  There are two possibilities for getting olecranal bursitis. One is bleeding to the elbow joint due to the blood Chat Doctor.  Other thing is infection and inflammation of close by tissues which led to fluid accumulation in olecranal bursae.  Hope this helps. Thank you.