Can we talk about bruising?

yes I have unexplained bruises all over me , some explained as I am running into things a lot, misjudging the corner of the table and so on,,lol,,,

Thanks there is so much to learn

I always have unknown bruises... I never thought it could be fibro related, but it has been since the diagnosis moreso...

I just put it down to my clumsiness. I run into coffee tables, doors, chairs, you name it all the time. So I usually just assume it's because of the clumsiness due to fibro, since one of my symptoms is incoordination. Only thing that would get me worried would be if I go on Zolpidem for too long, there has been cases reported where patients on Zolpidem sleep walk and do crazy things.

I got really offended once, when one of the intern pharmacist asked me if I experience anything like have breakfast ready on the table when I wake up and not remembering making them... That to me was just insensitive. (sorry gone off topic.)

Zolpidem is a sleeping aid. It goes by the name Ambient in the states. In UK, EU and AU, it's known as stilnox.

If taken once in a while, it's very effective in giving you a good night rest. However, for me, if I take them long term, it gives me a weird side effect, makes me feels like a zombie.

thanks

I used to bruise very easily, and would be covered with bruises in odd places. I would have no idea how I got them. Although I still bruise easily, The problem lessened a great deal when I stopped taking Nexium. I went off this a year ago due to bone loss. Shortly before I stopped taking it, I had a huge bruise that popped up on my arm, complete with a knot in the middle, and I knew that I had not bumped myself at all before getting it. I later read that this is a possible side effect, but one that does not happen very often. I also get these if I take any product that has a small amount of aspirin in it (I occasionally take Alka Seltzer). All it seems to take is for me to take one dose. So, it might be a good idea to check any meds that you take, even the OTCs. It is always in the back of my mind that if something can cause this side effect, what else might it be doing to us?

I also used to have pretty bad anemia, and I know that it can cause bruising. I also don't doubt that part of this tendency could be attributed to Fibro.








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I've always been an easy bruiser. I have a bruise on my shin from December 2010 that has never healed. My docs don't seem concerned about, so now I consider it a beauty mark. lol.

Hugs, Robin

Thanks Joy, I've tested negative for Myelodesplastic Anemia. My father had it. I do have vascular problems and am ANCA positive...meaning I've got another autoimmune disease brewing.

Hugs, Robin

I bruise quite easily and am always bumping into things...

I used to always wake up with all these bruises all over me, so I now line the walls all round my bed with pillows - I wake up with way less bruises now, so I think that when I tossed and turned in my sleep I was bumping into the wall or something...

Sometimes (and this is REALLY weird) things like this happen:
I was sitting there on the couch when I felt a strange, painful tingling sensation on my leg. I looked down to see a purplish bruise forming itself on my leg - it was like an invisible hand had grabbed a texta and was drawing a wobbly line up my leg! (It was itchy, too.) It hadn't come in contact with ANYTHING to cause bruising! Expecially not bruising that's in a line rather than a circle! It literally formed before my eyes with no observable cause.

Fish! tsk-tsk!

Okay, Jasmine, what happened to you was a blood vessel sprang a leak. I get those a lot in my fingers. Very irritating!

I have always bruised wasy and woulkd not know what I had done to get the bruises.

I don't taske nexium, but I tske aciphex and was taking prevacid. I also take asa and predisone. I thought the asa and predisone could cause it as well as the lupus.

Any body out there with the same meds anbd problems bruising?