aging makes the skin more fragile and thinner – a combination of less subcutaneous (fat) tissue for protection and more fragile blood vessels blood vessels lose some elasticity over time and are also more prone to breaking.some people are more accident-prone or live in a cluttered environment, which increases the chances of falling or tripping injury.having a medical condition that interferes with nutrient absorption.vitamin C (people who smoke are at significantly higher risk of vitamin C deficiency) or deficiency in vitamin K, vitamin B or zinc that can increase the likelihood of bruising some people bruise more readily than others – it runs in families.Deepak Bhatt, editor in chief for the Harvard Heart Letter, reminds us in general that “even slight bumps that you don’t even notice can cause bruises.” Some of the more common reasons for bruising include: Colours change as the bruise fades from hemoglobin (the iron-rich substance in the blood) breaking down into other compounds.ĭr.
A bruise usually starts as red, then purplish or black and blue within one to two days, followed by green or yellow for 5 to 10 days, and then a yellow-brown or light brown from 10 days to 2 weeks.
It can take weeks for bruises to fade away as the body naturally breaks down and absorbs this blood. If the skin’s surface doesn’t break, the blood from these capillaries can’t escape – and a bruise forms. The medical term for bruising is ecchymosis. Their newsletter describes bruising as the typical result from an injury that breaks capillaries (our tiniest blood vessels). “commie pinko land of socialized medicine!”) 🇨🇦
IM BLACK AND BRUISED FREE
Eventually, I began to interpret my bruises as a good sign – they meant that my anti-platelet drug Plavix was clearly working to help keep clots from forming inside this newly implanted stainless steel stent in my heart.Įveryone experiences bruising at some point, as explained in the latest patient newsletter from Self-Management B.C., our provincial health agency that, among other things, runs free patient classes on managing pain and other chronic conditions. Even getting a pedicure resulted in bruises! No pain, just weird bruising.
My walking buddies would say things to me like: “What happened to your ankle?” – which is when I’d notice that I must have banged into something because it had turned a freakishly unnatural colour. It doesn’t take much to cause bruising when taking anti-platelet drugs. They were rarely if ever painful, and would almost always suddenly appear without any memory of having hurt myself. In those early days post-hospital discharge, I went from feeling horrified to feeling fascinated by my “Plavix bruises”. Plavix, Brilinta, Effient, aspirin, etc.) These anti-platelet meds can also cause bleeding gums, heavier menstrual periods, or nosebleeds. So to help prevent the body from sending an avalanche of platelets to a newly implanted foreign object like a stainless steel stent inside your coronary artery, cardiologists prescribe for their heart patients anti-platelet medications (e.g. This is a good thing when you cut your finger while chopping onions (because you want the bleeding to clot and form a scab) – but NOT good when those clots form inside coronary arteries feeding oxygenated blood to the heart muscle. Platelets are the tiny disc-shaped cells in our blood that help blood to clot. Īccording to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “almost any medication has the potential to change the way blood platelets work in the body”. Here’s why bruising like this is so commonly seen in heart patients – even those without cats!. Even a petite 8-pound creature could cause deep purple and blueish bruises! Lilly, my fluffy calico cat, would regularly “make biscuits” before settling down for a lap nap by kneading her little paws into my lower abdomen. Where on earth had those two distinct bruises come from? It was only much later I figured it out. All over! One day in the shower, for example, I noticed two perfectly round small bruises on my lower abdomen, side by side, exactly the same size. By Carolyn Thomas ♥ being discharged home from the hospital following my heart attack, I didn’t know that one of the new heart drugs I was now taking had dramatic side effects: technicolour bruising.
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