Do you bruise easily?

Ronni said:
I don’t but Ron does. He suffers from senior purpura, that weird kind of bruising that isn’t like a regular bruise.

It’s caused by the skin getting thin and fragile due to aging and sun damage. It makes the skin more susceptible to bruising and bleeding even from minor injuries.
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I have the same thing as Ron does. Just a little bump spreads out in a huge area. 20 years of blood thinners is the cause in my case.
 

when I say it takes a really severe injury to make me bruise... it shows just how heavy handed a certain phlebotomist at my local hospital is when taking blood...

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At first is was going to say yes--in recent years i do. But the more i thought about the more i realized that it is more that i bruise differently on hands and forearms than i did in my youth. Since all chores--from cleaning, to cutting kindling to minor car stuff involve using hands in some way and the flesh thinner on them i often have the the deeper red, spreading bruising i discover when washing myself up afterwards--mostly on hands sometimes between wrist and elbow. But most everywhere else they are the normal black & blue (with some yellow at times) bruises. i've dropped more than one log on each of my feet, and tho boots give me some cushioning i generally still bruise, but the more usual kind.

i have a high pain threshold generally, and if focused i'm even less likely to notice minor bumps, collisions with objects. In Childhood it was because i was focused on play or on a chore. i would notice if scraped the skin and/or bled. But my Mom would frequently say 'how did you get that' and point to a bruise and i had no idea. As i mentioned that's still true...i often don't discover a new one till i'm washing up when ready to relax.
 
hollydolly said:
No..I don't bruise easily, in fact the very opposite. Injuries which might cause a broken bone in some people barely leaves a bruise on me.. so I have to be very seriously injured before I bruise..
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i bruise but as i said on another thread have only broken one bone in my life--fractured a toe by dropping something on it, while cleaning. But another time i fell and landed with most of my weight on my left hand. 40 minutes later my whole arm was swelling up. Roommate took me to ER. X-ray--nothing broken. But they told me i might have been better off if it had--instead i 'sprained every tendon/muscle in that wrist and forearm'. That was 50 yrs ago and i still have nuisance discomfort from it so wear wrist brace when doing heavy things like dealing with firewood.

i also dislocated a pinky toe about 20 yrs ago, and when i realized because the ache not receding normally, i reset it myself. A good yank, which did hurt but then it was fine again. tho fine for my pinky toes has always been kind of laying on their sides probably because went barefoot except for school and church my first decade of life.
 
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when I say it takes a really severe injury to make me bruise... it shows just how heavy handed a certain phlebotomist at my local hospital is when taking blood...
hollydolly said:
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You're lucky that the hematoma is only at the site of the draw. i once had a tech take a blood sample, placed cotton pad on site when done and told me to bend arm above my heart level while he did whatever he needed to do. When he had me unbend to put bandaid on it the blood spurted across the room. Then he thought it funny to ask if i was a 'bleeder'. i was working night shift at a bank in NYC at the time and stopped on my way from my home in NJ, having left early.

By the time i got to work, took off my jacket i not only had bruise at the site i had a black line running down where what i thought was my vein was usually visible all the way to my wrist. Another 20 minutes and i couldn't feel anything in or with my that hand. And as a proof-encoder processing checks and deposits i needed that hand to do my job efficiently.

Supervisor blanched seeing and ok'd my leaving for the day, said to take another if i needed it. But by the next morning feeling had returned tho the dark line remained a couple of days. BTW, i put 'my vein' the way i did above because doctors i talked to about that later on told me it was likely he hit artery for it to spurt and the line 'bruise'.
 
Some time back, I fell off a piece of exercise equipment at the gym and landed on my thigh on a metal pipe with the full body weight behind it. I serious thought, and so did the gym people, that I had broken my leg. Nope, thank goodness, just a sore leg.

I had a huge bruise on my thigh, as expected. But what I didn't expect was that the bruise would, over the course of the next couple of weeks, move down my leg almost all the way to my ankle. I guess it was the blood draining down under the skin. Really strange.
 
I get bruise easily since my childhood that seems I was born that way. Even I get bruise/purple in color, I'm not get any sick. I never hospitalized all in life. When I mentioned 'no hospitalization' at my age, a nurse surprised my healthy-life. I eat a lot of fish, beans and strawberry everyday. Also, I make a lot of efforts a good-night sleep everyday, even though that costs me quite a money.
 
Ronni said:
senior purpura, that weird kind of bruising that isn’t like a regular bruise.

It’s caused by the skin getting thin and fragile due to aging and sun damage. It makes the skin more susceptible to bruising and bleeding even from minor injuries.
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Interesting, didn’t know they have their own name. I get them exclusively on the top of my hands, never bigger than about the size of a nickel. Darn ugly but at least they don’t hurt.
 
Lizzie00 said:
Interesting, didn’t know they have their own name. I get them exclusively on the top of my hands, never bigger than about the size of a nickel. Darn ugly but at least they don’t hurt.
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I agree I think it is ugly, people know it's ugly who get them, no-one wants that horrible ageing bruising on their hands and arms... but until they come up with something it stops it, many people are going to have it happen to them... unfortunately
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
I do; I'm always finding bruises on my arms and legs with absolutely no recollection of the cause. And when I was in hospital a few years ago, they were constantly drawing blood and leaving major bruising. @hollydolly, one nurse was so bad he stabbed me many times and I threw him out of my room!
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In addition to the guy that hit and artery i also had a gal nurse that punctured through instead of into the vein. Then instead of following procedure and withdrawing the needle entirely before trying stick me again she moved it around trying to get it where it would draw the blood. The 'pain' was more of discomfort than pain but doing that somehow messed with my BP i went into shock briefly.
 
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