Bruising

[MikeB]

Is it just me or do you get alot of bruises with coumadin? I feel like the littlest tap will give me a black and blue. My dog jumped on my left the other week, and I had a B&B about 4 inches long and 3 inches wide, and it takes for every to go away. Does anyone else have this problem?

MikeB

 

[catwoman]

Mike:

Sometimes I bruise, sometimes I don't. It's usually only when I get a really good bump that I do bruise -- pretty colorful plus a painful bump.
I notice more bruises on my legs after a flight -- travel hazards, I guess, from trying to negotiate my way in & out of planes and getting banged up by everyone else's luggage.

 

[Ross]

Some people do and some don't. I'm lucky. I have to really bang myself to end up with one.

 

[Birky]

bruises

bruises

I get them very easily. We have a puppy and when we first got her, my arms looked like I had been in a fight. If I even scratch, I get a red mark and sometimes a bruise and I have been at 2.8 for the last couple of months which is not that high. Oh well, one of the things that I have to live with.

 

[Georgia]

Yup - bruise easily. Have a dog with sharp elbows who sits on my lap a lot - my legs have polkadots. And I get some whoppers from blood letting.

 

[Karlynn]

I have always been a banana and bruised easily, even prior to Coumadin. I don't notice any difference. Kind of funny I've always bruised easily because I have to take quite a large dose of Coumadin (10/day) to stay in range.

 

[Birky]

bruising

bruising

The vampires and leeches leave really big bruises. See what I get from the inlaws.

 

[lance]

Bruises from warfarin? Absolutely

Bruises from warfarin? Absolutely

Bruising caused by warfarin, afraid so. Many.

They only bother me when they are black and have hard knots under the skin. Sometime I use my lancette to release the blood so they'll heal faster.

Right now I have a dandy behind my knee--probably sat with my legs crossed too long. Oh well.

I don't see any improvement in the forseeable future.

 

[geebee]

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to my bruising although I do bruise more easily since coumadin. Right now I have a huge bruise on my arm from (I think) walking into a door jam. I also sometimes get pressure bruises if I sleep on my arm. However, there have been times when I have banged myself on something and thought: "there goes another bruise" and none will show up. This is when my INR is on the high side of my range so I am not sure just what the criteria are for actually causing a bruise.

 

[Granbonny]

Never bruise or bleed... At my age 66 I have thin skin on my arms..and yes, my pets do get me on them... but, the next day..they are more of a reddish color that disappears after a few days... Now, I do have a nice knot on my left shin...where my Grandaughter came down a waterslide...feet first. Knew when she hit me..I would have a Dandy...I made the mistake of not putting ice on it...just a slight discolor around it..but it hurts like &%^$(.. I find that rubbing it with Absorbine, jr pain relieving liquid helps..........Sure the knot will be there for a few weeks. bonnie

 

[Natanni]

Since being on Coumadin I did see that Nathan had a minor bruise once, and he has had at least 10 good dings that I would have expected him to bruise from. Nathan would rarely bruise prior to ACT however. I am wondering if it partially has to do with how thick skin is. Both my daughter and myself bruise like crazy, and Nathan and our son do not. Go figure....

 

[Randy & Robyn]

Prior to my AVR, I took an aspirin a day and bruised easily. I always had at least one or two on my arm or leg.

Now I'm on coumadin but no aspirin and I hardly bruise at all despite having the crap smacked out of me by my St. Bernard/Husky mix, dropping a two by four on my sandalled foot, whacking my head underneath our deck and getting rocks pelted at me by our lawn mower. Go figure.

Randy

 

[MikeB]

Thanks for all the replies, its good to know that I am not the only one! The only other weird thing is I havent had a nose bleed since surgery, when I used to get them regular.

 

[KristyW]

Vitamin C?

Vitamin C?

I still bruise pretty easily, but then again I always did. Once after one of my kids were born, I was in the chiropractors office for a "post partem adjustment" and he noticed some bruising on my legs. He mentioned that there were 2 things at work there. One, (at that time) I was a smoker and that tends to make you bruise. And the other was, a vitamin c deficiency. I know that I really didn't get much vit C, because I didn't eat healthy & didn't drink OJ or anything like that.

I have noticed a great improvement since I eat healthier now. Lotsa fresh fruie & veggies are just the thing.

Hope this helps

 

[LadyBlue]

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. When I accidently took too much coumaden for awhile, a fly could land on me and leave a huge bruise! I looked like a leapard with so many bruises on me, which is how I got suspicious that something wasn't right. Now with my low dosage, I only seem to bruise if I hit something hard. They seem to take longer than normal to go away as well.

 

[time2remember]

Bruising

You bet! I keep a bruise either on my leg or my arm.

 

[Cris N]

Oh my goodness... I bruise quite easily now. Lucky I'm quite tan right now as I've got a huge one on my forearm. I got a nasty one yesterday playing golf. On my arm by the elbow. No clue how it got there - I think I just bent my arm funny & there it was. Quite a knot with it too.