Anyone get bruises they can’t remember getting?

[SinkGirl]

I always have bruises on my legs with no memory of, but then I’m constantly running around after two toddlers so I figured I’m just banging into things and not remembering it. I have chronic fatigue and have chronic pain too, so maybe I’m just not very with it sometimes?

On Monday I noticed a bruise on my arm which was quite painful - it’s now obviously faded but it’s massive! I have no memory at all of doing anything to it.

Had blood tests very recently including full blood count and no issues there - so is it my memory that’s screwed up?! Does this happen to anyone else?

(Excuse my worktop which desperately needs sanding and oiling )

Ouch!
Have at least 5 small purple bruises on my legs and I have no clue how they got there.

No you are not alone! I'm always bruising for no underlying reason. I am always noticing bruises on my legs and forearms. They normally don't hurt but look bad.

I have that, too. Sometimes even quite large and painful ones, where I've obviously hit or banged myself into something, but it just hasn't stayed in my mind long enough to still remember it when the actual bruise has turned up. No underlying medical issue for easy bruising, although some occasional issues with short term memory!

All the time but I am a) clumsy and b) a banana so I only need the slightest knock.

I’m guessing it happened while wrangling a toddler but you’d think anything that could cause a bruise that big would have been memorable!

My twins are always covered in little bruises on their legs but then they are always climbing and falling, which I try to avoid these days

I always get bruises OP that I have absolutely no idea where they came from. I always have plenty on my legs, arms, torso!

That looks either door handle or worktop height, I reckon you bashed it on the corner of something like a worktop or table!

I've always been like this, constantly covered in little bruises of unknown origin.

Are you hypermobile (double jointed) by any chance?

I always have loads.

Most recently a selection of small ones across my belly.

I'd been to my dad's and used his laptop sitting on the sofa.

Strangely many of my bruises look like countries.

I sort of do, but generally if I think back carefully enough I remember what caused it. Or I remember by repeating the experience. Common culprit are my 3yo's sharp elbows/knees and heels when needing to leave somewhere and my car's tow bar. Also bits of Lego...

Toddler wrangling definitely causes bruises, and often you're too focussed on damage limitation to register a likely bruise on you!

I’m a permanent bruise-fest. I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and it’s one of the things you can get with that, along with fatigue and chronic pain. Might be worth going onto Ehlers-Danlos.org for info that might give you an idea if you might have it. The criteria for diagnosis are strict and a lot of people are on the hypermobility spectrum but don’t have EDS but a lot of the symptoms are the same.

@Chopin yes that's what I was getting at too. I suspect I'm somewhere along that spectrum too, albeit undiagnosed.

Yep I get heaps. A while ago I was getting them the size of a small plate and I became concerned and had blood tests like you. But all tests were negative and I was just diagnosed with bruising easily.

Avocados I didn’t get a diagnosis till I was in my mid 50’s and only got one at all because DD has arthritis and her rheumatologist at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital said she thought she had it and asked about close family members. She thendiagnosed the pair of us with EDS at a double appointment. She said that new criteria for diagnosis were brought in a year or two back and they’re far stricter than they were previously so that many people who would have been diagnosed with EDS then are now given a hypermobility spectrum disorder diagnosis. Im glad I finally have a diagnosis as it makes sense of all the weird and wonderful seemingly unrelated things I’ve always had going on.

Same here re bruises.

I spoke to my doctor he said as long as when you cut yourself the blood clots there is no problem with bruising.

This is interesting...I was coming on thread, to say, surely everyone is like this..

But interested in the EDvaspect. I am hypermobile and have a CFSME diagnosis. I also have Kyphosis. I asked for ED referral and was rejected. Criteria is hard..needed to have at least 9 childhood dislocations, if I remember correctly!

I'm worried because 1 of my dds is also hypermobile. The other suffers awful backache which the GP won't investigate (am worried about arthritis)

I quite often have bruises that I have no memory of sustaining. I'm very clumsy though and I bruise if you breathe on me!

I had one last week in exactly the same place on my arm as yours in your photo, no idea where it came from either

I am a little bendy - can bend the end joints on my fingers for example, press my thumb to my forearm,make my fingers curve back and turn my elbows inside out. Or rather, I used to be able to do all these things very easily but I’m less flexible than I used to be!

I did consider EDS before but don’t think I meet the criteria. I have diagnoses of endometriosis, adenomyosis, ME and fibro but frankly I think the last two are bollocks in my case as they don’t make sense with my symptoms but you know how it is.

Good to know it’s not a reason to worry! Sorry we are all bruises messes though!

I’m always discovering random bruises. No correlation for me with any other diagnosis though? I think I just bruise easily.

Whatever if you look at the 2017 diagnostic criteria for EDS diagnosis on the Ehlers Danlos Society site, it will give you an idea if you do meet them. It’s not 9 dislocations in childhood. No way either DD or I had that amount (don’t think DD had any) but she has a definite EDS diagnosis under the latest criteria. She also has kyphosis and both of us and my DB have a lot of backache.

If you look at the guidelines you might have a much better chance of getting a referral. But with the symptoms you have I think you should still be able to get one because it would be beneficial for your DC also to either get a diagnosis or rule one out,

All the time. My legs are frequently black and blue and I hardly ever remember where the bruises come from (and yet I frequently whack myself really hard on things and don't get a bruise anywhere near as spectacular as I deserve!). When I was in hospital a few years back, umpteen doctors quizzed me about all the bruises on my legs but they never actually did anything about finding out why. I do have a chronic autoimmune condition which frequently leaves me severely anaemic, so I've always blamed that.

My DS is the same. He has a bruise covering virtually the whole of his knee at the moment and no recollection of how he got it.

Yes so does dd. I thinks it just because we have pale skin they're more obvious.

OP bruising very easily is a sign of some sort of deficiency. I’d definitely look into that.

I bruise easily - always have done, never been any sinister reason for it - I just bruise well and I'm clumsy as hell... having DD2 with a dyspraxia diagnosis and seeing how she's affected by that, I'm fairly sure I have the condition as well (but there's no NHS pathway in our area for an adult diagnosis so I just get on with things). DD2's legs look horrific at the moment from falling over after climbing things - but I resist the urge to wrap her up in cotton wool as finding her limits and building up her core and arm and shoulder strength is more beneficial than avoiding a few bumps to her legs.

Arms for me are usually hooking carrier bags over my forearms while I unlock the door or something, or catching door knobs with my elbow area as I walk in and out of rooms.

loads
unfortunate combination of awful clumsiness, bruising easily, and very pale skin.