I can feel my vein moving

jillyt85

Last night while I was doing pushups in my strength training routine, I could feel the vein in my right arm where the elbow bends moving. Every time I'd push up, it felt like a really big twitch and when I'd stop, I could see the vein bulging. I compared it to my other arm and those veins were normal. It didn't hurt, but it felt incredibly gross and scared me. I had a DVT over a year ago in my right leg and I just kept thinking, "I have another blood clot and it's moving toward my brain/heart!" Has anyone else ever experienced this before? Is it bad? I didn't do as many pushups as I could have because it seriously icked me out. Right now the vein looks normal and flush with my skin again, but last night it looked just like it does when a nurse wraps that rubber band around your arm to get the vein to puff up to draw blood. Please tell me I'm not dying lol.

rawfitness

I wouldn't worry about it. When you exercise, the blood vessels in your muscles dilate and your blood flow increases. The increased blood flow delivers more oxygenated blood to the working muscle.

jillyt85

Ok thank you. That makes me feel better.