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Reactions from GH
All these are listed as GH injection site reactions.
Most frequent side effects related to injection-site reactions such as swelling, pain, erythema, itching, bruising and lipoatrophy; because growth hormone may reduce insulin sensitivity, monitor patients for hyperglycemia; diabetes mellitus patients may need adjustment of insulin during growth hormone therapy; intracranial hypertension with headache, nausea, vomiting, visual changes due to macular edema and proliferative retinopathy usually during the first 8 weeks of growth hormone therapy; funduscopic examination recommended at the initiation and periodically during the course of therapy; growth hormone therapy not recommended during pregnancy because studies have not been conducted and placental growth hormone is secreted from the end of the first trimester until term
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic930.htm
All these are listed as GH injection site reactions.
Most frequent side effects related to injection-site reactions such as swelling, pain, erythema, itching, bruising and lipoatrophy; because growth hormone may reduce insulin sensitivity, monitor patients for hyperglycemia; diabetes mellitus patients may need adjustment of insulin during growth hormone therapy; intracranial hypertension with headache, nausea, vomiting, visual changes due to macular edema and proliferative retinopathy usually during the first 8 weeks of growth hormone therapy; funduscopic examination recommended at the initiation and periodically during the course of therapy; growth hormone therapy not recommended during pregnancy because studies have not been conducted and placental growth hormone is secreted from the end of the first trimester until term
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic930.htm