Have You Ever Found Marks or Scars On Your Body But......

[OneEyedDiva]

You don't know how you got them? I've had this happen a few times. A couple of years ago, there was a "charcoal brown" teardrop configuration on the left side of my neck close to my clavicle. It reminded me of a burn I got when my mother accidentally let the hot curlers touch my skin and was similar in color to the dark scar on the far left of my arm in the picture below. It eventually faded. I've also found a couple of scratches on my back that were horizontal though I'd do vertical scratches, even while sleeping. Now I can't figure out how I got these three horizontal markings on my right forearm. I didn't burn myself so I have no idea what caused them.

 

[Blessed]

Maybe something got on your skin, cleaning product or lauandry detergent. They can cause a reaction. Kind of looks like something drip down your arm.

 

[Mike]

When I was young, I had deep crease on my forehead,
from the hairline above the right eye, down to the eyebrow.

My mother once asked me how I got it, as I didn't know,
I said probably from my previous life, it might have been
what killed me, during the war!

It just disappeared over time, plus it wasn't always there,
only now and again.

Mike.

 

[hollydolly]

Yep...recently I've been finding bruises on my arms and legs with no recollection of how they got there. The ones on my shins are especially puzzling because I'm hardly likely to forget giving myself a big enough whack on the shin bone so as to cause bruising

 

[Murrmurr]

I can account for every scar. Every one a lesson learned, including the surgical scars.

 

[Nathan]

Have You Ever Found Marks or Scars On Your Body But......
You don't know how you got them?

All the time. I blame the dog, that's usually pretty accurate.

 

[Blessed]

I have found that I bruise a lot easier than I used to. Barely get a bump, bruise follows. I think it has something to do with the aging process.

 

[officerripley]

I too find unexplained bruises and marks on myself these days.

 

[Geezer Garage]

Might have been at one of those wild late night parties you attend.

 

[Gary O']

Have You Ever Found Marks or Scars On Your Body But...​

You don't know how you got them?

Yeah

too many to remember

I don't even know when the last time my nose was broken
I just see it every morn in the mirror

 

[Packerjohn]

I have had 3 wood ticks since I started traveling. After they were ripped away from my body they left awful looking red circles that are still there. I hate BUGS!

 

[Tish]

Yep, happens to me all the time.

 

[Chet]

I have had 3 wood ticks since I started traveling. After they were ripped away from my body they left awful looking red circles that are still there. I hate BUGS!

Deer tick bites leave a fairly large bullseye at the site and they carry Lyme disease. You should see a doctor.

 

[win231]

I did have scars & bruises when I was married.
I finally told her to trim her nails or I'd have to sleep somewhere else.

 

[Remy]

Usually bruises. I've usually got some small scratch or claw mark from the cats.

I've found bruises on my arms, legs and even now I have one on my stomach I have no idea where it came from. I probably banged myself at work or something without realizing.

 

[Patricia]

You don't know how you got them? I've had this happen a few times. A couple of years ago, there was a "charcoal brown" teardrop configuration on the left side of my neck close to my clavicle. It reminded me of a burn I got when my mother accidentally let the hot curlers touch my skin and was similar in color to the dark scar on the far left of my arm in the picture below. It eventually faded. I've also found a couple of scratches on my back that were horizontal though I'd do vertical scratches, even while sleeping. Now I can't figure out how I got these three horizontal markings on my right forearm. I didn't burn myself so I have no idea what caused them.

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[Patricia]

You don't know how you got them? I've had this happen a few times. A couple of years ago, there was a "charcoal brown" teardrop configuration on the left side of my neck close to my clavicle. It reminded me of a burn I got when my mother accidentally let the hot curlers touch my skin and was similar in color to the dark scar on the far left of my arm in the picture below. It eventually faded. I've also found a couple of scratches on my back that were horizontal though I'd do vertical scratches, even while sleeping. Now I can't figure out how I got these three horizontal markings on my right forearm. I didn't burn myself so I have no idea what caused them.

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Sorting can be stressful. Have you tried treating to see if any of the typical substances work? I have a couple of spots on my face that came after the shingles period, but they don't look like shingles. They are scaley and itch. Rubbing alcohol didn't work, but tea tree oil removed the scaley part. Now the larger place is a red spot.

 

[Pappy]

Since I have been taking blood thinners for Afib, I bruise at the slightest little bump. This photo was went the garbage container lid fell on my arm a while back.

 

[oldpop]

I have had 3 wood ticks since I started traveling. After they were ripped away from my body they left awful looking red circles that are still there. I hate BUGS!

You may want to get that checked out?

 

[Jules]

Sometimes I’ll have a painful whack and nary a mark afterwards; other times I have no idea where my bruise happened

Recently I read that we lose a protective fat layer under our skin as we age so will bruise more easily.

 

[win231]

Sometimes I’ll have a painful whack and nary a mark afterwards; other times I have no idea where my bruise happened

Recently I read that we lose a protective fat layer under our skin as we age so will bruise more easily.

I think it's other factors.
More fragile blood vessels.
People taking blood thinners.

 

[Been There]

I think it's other factors.
More fragile blood vessels.
People taking blood thinners.

That and the fact that as we age our skin becomes thinner and less hydrated. There are fatty layers under our skin that help to protect the blood vessels, but as we age they also begin to thin out and if we live live long enough, they will go away altogether.

 

[timoc]

Me? Marks on my body and face? HA! Wrinkles? HA!
Take a look at my avatar, I have the most marvelous complexion, not a line on my grecian face, not even a grey hair.
I do however have crap eyesight, and a lying swine of a mirror.

 

[Mike]

When we older people bruise easily, nobody cares, not
even your Doctor, "it's your age", he/she will say, but if
a child bruises easily, the parents are arrested and put
into separate locked rooms, for interrogation, while the
child is examined and questioned and fostered till the
parents are cleared or jailed.

Strange world we live in today, no respect for the elderly,
from any office.

Mike.

 

[MarciKS]

I get all kinds of bruises and don't remember where I got them. Half the time I don't even remember anything hurting bad enough to bruise me.