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Not on any type of blood thinners, none.
Not on any aspirin regimen
Don't take nsaids.
Platelets are good.


Just sort of...brushed up against a door casing. Even had a base layer on AND heavy Carharrt work jacket.

Get spots the size quarters from just tinkering with reloading, small wrench jobs. Get those all the time, sometimes I have 5 or more on each arm all the time. So I made the comment that I wasn't impressed with Field Grade's couple of booboos. But I can do it.

Called my battlefield medical expert renegade50, I asked what should I do with that 2" flap of hide pulled back. He said flatten it back down and push out the juices. 👍👍😄

Shît happens like this a lot, asked couple of MD's about...just get a non-answer.

Asked my dermatologist, he's trying to say it's from being old.

WTF....just turned 49

BS, got to be something else. Picking the campfire braintrust.

Time to rub some dirt in it.

See arms like that on really old ass people , 80-90-100 years old.

My dad was like that , in his 80s.

Happens to me , I'm 61. Guess I got it early.


Mike

I do the same thing, but I've got 20 years on you, and I take a baby asprin every other day. Mine's actually not as bad as it once was, for whatever the reason.

Sweet Tea poisoning.

Yeah. Know it well now at 63. I can barely skin a knuckle or knock up against something with my arm and same thing. I call it old man bleed. Was going on even before I started the low dose aspirin.

Welcome!!!

Sir, I will correct you

That is Hawaiin Punch oozin outta that flap. 😄

I'm waiting for one of the campfire veternarians to tell me it's not related to systemic corticosteroid use and cytopenia and to just tell me "mehhhh, maybe switch up her dog food brand to a salmon and sweet potato blend"

Ya know, a real intelligent answer.

The only people I see that on is the very old and older smokers.

Woman I work with has the same problem but she is on medication and is an old smoker.

I'd get the quack to take a second look at you. Leukemia can cause you to bruise easily. Probably not it, but better to be safe.

I bruise easily, I had blood drawn and I have a low platelet count. I was in a couple weeks ago had a bone marrow biopsy (no fun) and will go in on the 22nd for a cat scan, and find out the results of the biopsy. I will report back the results to you if you're interested in knowing. Could result in spleen removal.

49 is about the time I started noticing that happening to me, wifey also. I don’t even think about trimming brush without long sleeve shirt. I’ll be cut to ribbons. I used to weld some in short sleeves, not good anymore. I’m sorry it’s happening to you. Getting old ain’t for sissies!!!

That has crossed my mind and I was kind of waiting for the brain trust to open up.

I do have Myleodysplastic Syndrome, bone marrow disorder. It can supposedly morph into a form of leukemia

I've had problems with leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and thalassemia all varying recurrent episodes. My white cells bottomed out at 0,4 count once for a few weeks. Good times

Fuggers had to have gowns and botties to take care of me. Mother in wasnt allowed to visit in the iso ward. 👍

sure, let me know. I'm interested.

I'm due for another bone marrow biopsy. Maybe after deer season. lol

If I take Aleve, or generic equivalents, I bruise like that! I believe it acts like a blood thinner! I'm still young at 69, shouldn't be seeing this old people crap!

I do the same thing- - - -mostly below my knees. Just stumble a little and scrape against a door jamb, and the skin peels back like a roof shingle in a hurricane. Currently, I'm nursing one from 4 months ago that refuses to heal from rubbing my left ankle against my bike trailer while loading up my Harley after a Patriot Guard Riders escort for a friend's funeral in Florida. I'm 73, and on Pradaxa for atrial fibrillation. I've got the big dark blotches under the skin known as "Peripheral Circulatory Insufficiency", sort of like the bruising that happens when taking Warfarin based blood thinners like Coumadin. A scrape in one of those areas peels big chunks of skin, and bleeds pretty badly. 5 years ago, I dropped a Honda Gold Wing on my leg at 60 MPH and nearly lost my left foot. Swelling during the surgical rebuilding of my lower leg caused a very thick layer of skin to slough off due to swelling. I lost a later of skin about 1/8" thick from my knee to the top of my foot and the new skin has been tissue paper thin ever since.

It took me 55 years of riding bikes to have my first bad wreck- - - - -doesn't that mean I've got 55 years until the next one?
Jerry

Hopefully so Jerry

I've got the same issue. Will turn 67 this month and since about age 63 the skin has gotten a lot thinner (not on this forum thought). Doc says it's a natural aging phenomenon.

So the deal was...We got a big pile of cordwood rounds.

Wifey obersturmgruppenfuher says that I should take tractor and push more rounds up under the roofline before our furnace wood soaks up too much more weather.

I try the front end loader, the walls start pushing outward as the wood pile moves inward, oopsie..lol

So plan B, I take the back hoe claw and start 'pawing' a few pieces at time over the tope of stack and into a void in front of that outdoor boiler. Perfect!, slow but working great.

I go around from the other side to check it out and end up getting up between two labradors and a barn cat fight. Rake my shoulder and forearm against that metal casing corner on that furnace housing.