Re: Do you have brusing going on?

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

Ha! Good one, Noel!

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@3suwm5 wrote:
For me, it seems to happen the older I get. I think my depth perception is off. I slam my arms in my front-load dryer all the time, when taking out laundry.

I would mention to my Dr., if it happened too often without any explanation. I generally forget I slammed myself and wonder days later what I did.

@3suwm5 That's because the older you get, the thinner your skin becomes. My doctor called a contact at the UNM geriatric department to see what could be done about it. The only thing they could suggest was to rub estrogen cream into the skin ($110. for a 1/2 ounce tube). I really didn't want to add estrogen to my regimen.

It helps to wear long sleeves when gardening or doing anything with bumps. My dog nails me when jumping on my lap. I actual skin my arms peeling back skin.

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Mindy D · ‎05-23-2010

Yes, I get bruised and have no idea how I got them. It happens less since I retired. I'm not bumping into as many things I guess. I usually don't even know they are there and I discover them by accident.

debcakes · ‎03-11-2010

@LilacTree wrote:
I've had hundreds of bruises (more like red/purple injuries) over the past five years. It's called "senile purpura" (in my case). They are almost always on the tops of my lower arms. I sometimes know where I got them, otherwise, I don't. My skin is so thin, sometimes they actually bleed and I have to use a Band Aid.

I have asked my doctors and been told it's aging, also prednisone which I take for RA. I am not on blood thinners. They do fade but never go away completely . . . they become grayish/light brown spots of all sizes. I've had some pretty big ones. I have one or two right now. I never show my arms anymore.

I get those, too. I have spoken to pharmacists and several physicians. I have even called Pro Caps to see if the fish oil could do it. In my case, it may have been because I had an inflamed gall bladder and did not know it. The dr.s kept saying it was just age, but I think I am too young and too healthy to have this. I do not take blood thinners or have any conditions like R A or diabetes. My mother is 88 and does take blood thinners and she does not have anything like this. Since having the gall bladder removed, the bruising has become less and less. Now, finally for the past couple of weeks, I have none at all. I hope that continues. I do not want to wear long sleeves all summer.

OnlyShopsOnline · ‎03-09-2010

I used to spontaniously "pop" bruises all of the time. I could feel it happen. They were mild and usually disappeared within a day or two. I was in my 30's when it started....it was right after a really bad case of the flu.

It went on for years. Nobody could figure out what it was. I have a feeling it had to do with the development of my Hashimoto's autoimmune thyroid disease.

It stopped a long time ago. I'm now 58 and can't remember the last time it happened. But, it didn't kill me, so I guess it was "nothing."

Of course, just because a doctor tells me they don't know what is wrong, or think anything is wrong, doesn't necessarily mean nothing is wrong.

I've battled doctors for the past year or two about my high-end serum calcium levels. 3 doctors, including my endocrinologist, just brushed me off. I took it upon myself to make an appointment with a specialist at Johns Hopkins. Next week, I am having a parathyroid tumor removed, during my thyroidectomy. Parathyroid tumors are "benign" but slowly destroy your body over the course of years, and can eventually be fatal. (I just needed to vent. Thanks!)

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Big Sister · ‎05-15-2010

Do mention to your dr. about the easy bruising. It could be a vitamin deficiency that may be corrected easily.

JaneMarple · ‎05-23-2011

I bruise easily and always have, I'm in my fifties and it happens quite a lot. My doctors have told me that my two autoimmune illnesses are the cause.

One of my sisters has leukemia and she bruises very easily.

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Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

I have bruised (though not excessively) most of my life, way before I had to start multiple medications and/or had any "conditions." I have occasionally asked my doctors in the past and was told "some people just do (bruise), mostly women." Nothing noticeable has ever shown up in labwork.

I'm one of those people who, starting in my teens at least, was always running into things. My mind was often elsewhere, or I was in a hurry, preoccupied, etc. I'd whack my hand or shoulder on a doorjam, get my thigh ot hip poked by the corner of a dresser, same with a filing cabinet - that kind of thing. I still do it.

I don't bruise any "more" or any "worse" now that I take a fair amount of ibuprofen and other medications.

I don't have the thinned skin that leads to the senile purpuras yet, but I can see my skin is thinning somewhat. My mother had very thin, massively bruisable skin so I suppose I will too :-(

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debcakes · ‎03-11-2010

@debcakes wrote:
@LilacTree wrote:
I've had hundreds of bruises (more like red/purple injuries) over the past five years. It's called "senile purpura" (in my case). They are almost always on the tops of my lower arms. I sometimes know where I got them, otherwise, I don't. My skin is so thin, sometimes they actually bleed and I have to use a Band Aid.

I have asked my doctors and been told it's aging, also prednisone which I take for RA. I am not on blood thinners. They do fade but never go away completely . . . they become grayish/light brown spots of all sizes. I've had some pretty big ones. I have one or two right now. I never show my arms anymore.
I get those, too. I have spoken to pharmacists and several physicians. I have even called Pro Caps to see if the fish oil could do it. In my case, it may have been because I had an inflamed gall bladder and did not know it. The dr.s kept saying it was just age, but I think I am too young and too healthy to have this. I do not take blood thinners or have any conditions like R A or diabetes. My mother is 88 and does take blood thinners and she does not have anything like this. Since having the gall bladder removed, the bruising has become less and less. Now, finally for the past couple of weeks, I have none at all. I hope that continues. I do not want to wear long sleeves all summer.

I wrote too soon. Since writing the post above, thinking it was no longer getting the red blood marks, it happened again. I got one when I went on a hike and I got two more when taking care of my little grandson. I realized that I was getting them when I was active. With this clue, I went back to the wonderful pharmacist who has been trying to help me figure this out. She thinks it is capilaritis or inflammation of the capillaries. I have a physical later this summer and will get the diagnosis verified.

In the meantime, I saw some beet juice powder that claimed to be for the circulation. I bought some and have been using it for less than a week. The marks are going away much faster. Last night I literally sprang a leak, so it's not better altogether, but I'll keep using the beet powder.