bruises like crazy

Stella_Mayfair
Stella_Mayfair Posts: 226 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Okay My legs are horribly gross. Mainly cos they are as white as milk (spray tan if I really cared) and they are covered in bruises. They bruise too easily. I cannot count how many I have. I got many in my sleep, a bug flying into my leg, or tiny peebles from the wind (NOT JOKING!!) My dr says I have anemia, so that explains my pica (drools sand) but not the bruises. She isn't concerned with them. I have taken many blood test over the years. Last was for my high blood pressure. I will see her on the 29th. Not sure if this is a different type of blood test I must do or another deficiency?

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  • weightliftingdiva
    weightliftingdiva Posts: 522 Member
    Maybe get a second opinion from another doctor?
  • shadowofender
    shadowofender Posts: 786 Member
    Anemia and low iron levels will make you bruise more often. They can test for that with a blood draw. For now, make sure you're getting enough iron in your diet. I tend to bruise more easily if I've been lacking on the iron front.
  • Stella_Mayfair
    Stella_Mayfair Posts: 226 Member
    Maybe get a second opinion from another doctor?

    Here family drs are hell to get and walk ins are for colds etc when ur dr is away. If I ask her colleague he will tell me she is the best at what she does. Like always. he is like 30. Then tell her and she will be mad and I have felt her rath b4...:(
  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    Anemia and low iron levels will make you bruise more often. They can test for that with a blood draw. For now, make sure you're getting enough iron in your diet. I tend to bruise more easily if I've been lacking on the iron front.

    Eggs
    Red Meat
    Spinach

    Iron supplements
  • Stella_Mayfair
    Stella_Mayfair Posts: 226 Member
    Anemia and low iron levels will make you bruise more often. They can test for that with a blood draw. For now, make sure you're getting enough iron in your diet. I tend to bruise more easily if I've been lacking on the iron front.

    I hate fish, and cottage cheese, what about an iron supplement? That did take my craving for sand away when I kept up with it
  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    Maybe get a second opinion from another doctor?

    Here family drs are hell to get and walk ins are for colds etc when ur dr is away. If I ask her colleague he will tell me she is the best at what she does. Like always. he is like 30. Then tell her and she will be mad and I have felt her rath b4...:(

    You have every right to see a different doctor without feeling your PCP's "wrath".
    If she is that immature over you seeking a second opinion, you need to 1)Find a new permanent PCP and 2)probably report her to the medical board for inappropriate behavior (unprofessionalism).

    Go to a different practice to get your second opinion
  • Stella_Mayfair
    Stella_Mayfair Posts: 226 Member
    Anemia and low iron levels will make you bruise more often. They can test for that with a blood draw. For now, make sure you're getting enough iron in your diet. I tend to bruise more easily if I've been lacking on the iron front.

    Eggs
    Red Meat
    Spinach

    Iron supplements

    Love spinach, eggs, but not the meat much. ty will get more spinach I eat many eggs. And I will try to stick to my supplements. I ake so many meds as it is adding 1 more makes me ill, thinking of it. But I think I should to be healthy.
  • shadowofender
    shadowofender Posts: 786 Member
    Anemia and low iron levels will make you bruise more often. They can test for that with a blood draw. For now, make sure you're getting enough iron in your diet. I tend to bruise more easily if I've been lacking on the iron front.

    I hate fish, and cottage cheese, what about an iron supplement? That did take my craving for sand away when I kept up with it

    An iron supplement could help if that's what is causing the bruising. Craving for sand? What?
  • Stella_Mayfair
    Stella_Mayfair Posts: 226 Member
    Maybe get a second opinion from another doctor?

    Here family drs are hell to get and walk ins are for colds etc when ur dr is away. If I ask her colleague he will tell me she is the best at what she does. Like always. he is like 30. Then tell her and she will be mad and I have felt her rath b4...:(

    You have every right to see a different doctor without feeling your PCP's "wrath".
    If she is that immature over you seeking a second opinion, you need to 1)Find a new permanent PCP and 2)probably report her to the medical board for inappropriate behavior (unprofessionalism).

    Go to a different practice to get your second opinion

    I know right? But that is what you get with free health care in Canada. Who will they believe me? or a dr? Plus my cousin was seeing her, funny we both complained not knowing she was the same dr. My cousin stopped seeing her after a horrid incident. She wanted me and her to report this dr from all our own incidents. But my parents see her too and like her, plus if u get caught reporting a dr, no others will take u. I am still in waiting for new dr. She can be cherry sweet or sour evil,,, Lately nice. Idw f that up
  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    Maybe get a second opinion from another doctor?

    Here family drs are hell to get and walk ins are for colds etc when ur dr is away. If I ask her colleague he will tell me she is the best at what she does. Like always. he is like 30. Then tell her and she will be mad and I have felt her rath b4...:(

    You have every right to see a different doctor without feeling your PCP's "wrath".
    If she is that immature over you seeking a second opinion, you need to 1)Find a new permanent PCP and 2)probably report her to the medical board for inappropriate behavior (unprofessionalism).

    Go to a different practice to get your second opinion

    I know right? But that is what you get with free health care in Canada. Who will they believe me? or a dr? Plus my cousin was seeing her, funny we both complained not knowing she was the same dr. My cousin stopped seeing her after a horrid incident. She wanted me and her to report this dr from all our own incidents. But my parents see her too and like her, plus if u get caught reporting a dr, no others will take u. I am still in waiting for new dr. She can be cherry sweet or sour evil,,, Lately nice. Idw f that up

    Both of you should approach the medical board in your province and lodge complaints about this doctor.
  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    Anemia and low iron levels will make you bruise more often. They can test for that with a blood draw. For now, make sure you're getting enough iron in your diet. I tend to bruise more easily if I've been lacking on the iron front.

    I hate fish, and cottage cheese, what about an iron supplement? That did take my craving for sand away when I kept up with it

    An iron supplement could help if that's what is causing the bruising. Craving for sand? What?

    States in OP she has pica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder))
  • Stella_Mayfair
    Stella_Mayfair Posts: 226 Member
    Anemia and low iron levels will make you bruise more often. They can test for that with a blood draw. For now, make sure you're getting enough iron in your diet. I tend to bruise more easily if I've been lacking on the iron front.

    I hate fish, and cottage cheese, what about an iron supplement? That did take my craving for sand away when I kept up with it

    An iron supplement could help if that's what is causing the bruising. Craving for sand? What?

    I have pica from my anemia I love (haven't for years, my god my mouth salivates... I'd take sand I sifted thru and place it on my tongue and let it "melt" on my tongue. The taste, texture, so amazing, nothing like it. Then I;d spit is out and repeat. But grains are swallowed. My mom asked what I was chewing on once. I said sand like it was normal. She told me not to for her uncle did the same and died cos his appendix exploded. I swear my dr doesn't believe I "eat" sand. I wish I could show her. My mom saw it, my bro, even my last bf. But I haven't for like 6 months. 9 months. No sand in winter here, and art sand doesn't have the same effect. I know I;m a freak.
  • shadowofender
    shadowofender Posts: 786 Member
    Anemia and low iron levels will make you bruise more often. They can test for that with a blood draw. For now, make sure you're getting enough iron in your diet. I tend to bruise more easily if I've been lacking on the iron front.

    I hate fish, and cottage cheese, what about an iron supplement? That did take my craving for sand away when I kept up with it

    An iron supplement could help if that's what is causing the bruising. Craving for sand? What?

    States in OP she has pica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder))


    Oh ok. I hadn't looked at her profile.

    But yeah. If that helped with that craving, too, maybe that's something you should try hard to keep up with? Could be beneficial on multiple fronts. I don't know the first thing about dealing with pica, though.
  • shadowofender
    shadowofender Posts: 786 Member
    Anemia and low iron levels will make you bruise more often. They can test for that with a blood draw. For now, make sure you're getting enough iron in your diet. I tend to bruise more easily if I've been lacking on the iron front.

    I hate fish, and cottage cheese, what about an iron supplement? That did take my craving for sand away when I kept up with it

    An iron supplement could help if that's what is causing the bruising. Craving for sand? What?

    I have pica from my anemia I love (haven't for years, my god my mouth salivates... I'd take sand I sifted thru and place it on my tongue and let it "melt" on my tongue. The taste, texture, so amazing, nothing like it. Then I;d spit is out and repeat. But grains are swallowed. My mom asked what I was chewing on once. I said sand like it was normal. She told me not to for her uncle did the same and died cos his appendix exploded. I swear my dr doesn't believe I "eat" sand. I wish I could show her. My mom saw it, my bro, even my last bf. But I haven't for like 6 months. 9 months. No sand in winter here, and art sand doesn't have the same effect. I know I;m a freak.

    No, not a freak. It's just a thing you have to deal with. Lots of us have issues that are hard for someone else to understand. It's just one more thing to tackle, that's all. If it's been 9 months, that's fantastic.
  • Stella_Mayfair
    Stella_Mayfair Posts: 226 Member
    Anemia and low iron levels will make you bruise more often. They can test for that with a blood draw. For now, make sure you're getting enough iron in your diet. I tend to bruise more easily if I've been lacking on the iron front.

    I hate fish, and cottage cheese, what about an iron supplement? That did take my craving for sand away when I kept up with it

    An iron supplement could help if that's what is causing the bruising. Craving for sand? What?

    I have pica from my anemia I love (haven't for years, my god my mouth salivates... I'd take sand I sifted thru and place it on my tongue and let it "melt" on my tongue. The taste, texture, so amazing, nothing like it. Then I;d spit is out and repeat. But grains are swallowed. My mom asked what I was chewing on once. I said sand like it was normal. She told me not to for her uncle did the same and died cos his appendix exploded. I swear my dr doesn't believe I "eat" sand. I wish I could show her. My mom saw it, my bro, even my last bf. But I haven't for like 6 months. 9 months. No sand in winter here, and art sand doesn't have the same effect. I know I;m a freak.

    No, not a freak. It's just a thing you have to deal with. Lots of us have issues that are hard for someone else to understand. It's just one more thing to tackle, that's all. If it's been 9 months, that's fantastic.
    Ty hun, it is hard. But I watch those ppl on my strange addiction and think, wow they are so out of control! I can go w/o it. I dream of it, I love the smell. I think of it when nauseated and it helps. Sand. I wish It was something you could eat to expel toxins etc. But it isn't and idw have anymore issue than I already do. But I tell ya, if I were going to die I'd take mouthfuls daily lol. I try not to keep sand near me. I tend to :eat: it when stressed more.
  • ArtGeek22
    ArtGeek22 Posts: 1,429 Member
    To be on the safe side I would go to your doctor and get a blood test if you feel it is really abnormal. Just start a dialog with your doctor to perhaps prevent a bigger nutritional issue. But anemia certainly can cause some level of bruising. I perhaps would bring up the benefits of a plant based life style? I have had several friend who have greatly balanced their nutrition and actually have reversed their anemia and helped balance out their nutritional levels.
  • Stella_Mayfair
    Stella_Mayfair Posts: 226 Member
    To be on the safe side I would go to your doctor and get a blood test if you feel it is really abnormal. Just start a dialog with your doctor to perhaps prevent a bigger nutritional issue. But anemia certainly can cause some level of bruising. I perhaps would bring up the benefits of a plant based life style? I have had several friend who have greatly balanced their nutrition and actually have reversed their anemia and helped balance out their nutritional levels.

    I'm open to that. I would eat sand, fine mud, clay gravol and grass if healthy. Can you pm me this Plant based stuff?
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