Have you had a nose bleed?

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On telly, a chars yer having an unexpected nosebleed always means SOMETHING. They're dying, they're guilty etc. No one ever had an innocuous nosebleed.
In my house, nosebleeds are only noteworthy cos ds screams until it stops.

So are they really so rare that it's always a cuase of alarm elsewhere,?

Definitely not cause for alarm. I got them almost daily at one point as a child.

I still get them occasionally, generally not worrying but I had on that was unusually heavy and didn't stop the other week. Nothing serious but I did start timing it in case I needed to go to the MIU.

In a child or after a bump to the nose- No, I wouldn't be concerned.

In an adult on anti-coagulants like warfarin, or with a headache or high blood pressure then YES, I'd be very concerned and seek medical help asap.

I went through a phase of having loads of them as a teenager. As far as I’m aware I never buried a body somewhere before each one.

Never had one.
I’m nearly 40.

As a child I had nosebleeds every couple of days for about 3 years - ended up in hospital for a cauterisation; there was nothing sinister about it, I just had weird nostrils - hadn't had my first one since until 18 months ago - 22 years after the procedure! Doctor said it was because of the extremely hot weather causing a bizarre pressure change and the old vessels didn't like it.

I had my first one about 6 months ago aged 40 and it shocked me as it was really heavy, came out of nowhere and took ages to stop! Mentioned it to my gp at an appointment for something else and they weren’t remotely interested! Said it’s really common to have the odd one in your life and some people are more prone to them than others.

DS had three recently when he had Covid, he's never had them before. Can't remember when I last had one.

I've had one and that was when I was pregnant with my eldest. My DD gets them almost daily - she has some blood vessels inside her nose that are exceptionally close to the skin so vulnerable to the slightest knock, scratch (yeah she picked her nose too much!) or exuberant sneeze! She had them cauterized a few years ago which did help but now shes 21 she says shes happy just to live with it. She did exclaim happily at the weekend that she had "had a massive clot which was gross"

I had them almost daily as a child. Stopped when my period started. Like I had too much blood.

I had regular nose blooding when I was 17. It was a transitional age, I guess because it passed and rarely happened again.
It also may happen because of dry air in your house.

I had them regularly in childhood, lessening after puberty, same as my Mom. DS seems to have similar nosebleeds now - sometimes a few a month, sometimes every few months. I just find it bizarre on telly how a small dribble of blood appears and everyone has this horrified look as though they aren't just a usual kind of thing

Frequently nose bleeder here. Usually means I need some antibiotic ointment!

DS1 (5) gets them all the bloody time. The ENT doctor we see regularly for a ton of other stuff wasn't remotely interested/bothered.

I get them when pregnant (although admittedly they are very light)

Had a nostril cauterized when in my 20's, had a chest infection at the same time and every time I coughed it would gush. Utterly miserable. I get bloody bogies a lot but I put that down to the recurrent sinus infections I keep getting. Blegh.

Dd7 gets them all the time. I was actually thinking of starting a thread asking when/if I should be concerned.

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DS had three recently when he had Covid, he's never had them before. Can't remember when I last had one.

I get one occasionally if I've had a bad cold and I've been blowing my nose a lot. I think the pressure must rupture the blood vessels.

@GoldenOldBoy

Dd7 gets them all the time. I was actually thinking of starting a thread asking when/if I should be concerned.

I can't remember exactly when I was told they'd care, but I'd make sure you keep a log of how often and how bad so if you do speak to someone you can tell them not be sent away to monitor frequency

I'm alarmed when DS gets them but only because DD passes out at the sight of blood and is weak for hours after. Sigh.

I had a phase when I was a teen.
An awful one when I was pregnant... Went to A&E and had it cauterised. I'd probably been blowing too much as I felt like I had a blocked nose through much of the pregnancy.

Quite often in the last few years - maybe since menopause, seems to be related to changes in temperature but once I've had one my nose remains delicate for a while. Often it's after blowing, unsurprisingly, but the other night I was woken by one which started spontaneously. The good thing was I was sleeping on my back at that point so it didn't make a mess; the bad thing was that what woke me was coughing as blood trickled down my throat.

I used to get them all the time as a kid. It was just a random nose bleed

Crumbs. My son’s Dad had a vein close to the top of his nose that he only had to look at his glasses too hard & pop, there’d be blood everywhere.

It’s a handy cinematic trope. Nose bleed? It’s a brain tumour/radiation sickness/they’ve caught the plague and about to become a zombie.

In the real world? I was first aiding at a joint scout & guide event & a scout trundled up to me with a nose bleed worthy of a horror movie. Chatted to his leader, it was one of those things that wasn’t particularly unusual.

I’ll be honest, the only nose bleeds my kids have had is related to accidental injury (usually being daft, like when my son thought it hilarious at the age of 8 to do a Sideshow Bob & step on a rake). Or when my daughter, on being told by her grandfather that ‘if she picked her nose her legs would fall off’, decided to spend an entire evening after going to bed trying to unscrew her limbs via her nasal cavity.

She was 4.

My nose bled occasionally when I was pregnant but it didn’t gush like a proper nose bleed.

It’s gross but I was in a&e once and another patient had been in for a major nose torrent and had it cauterised. She was waiting a bit afterwards, things were looking good, and then she sneezed

Back to square one poor thing.

When I was pregnant with dd. I would wake in the night soaked from a nose bleed. The 1st one scared me. I hadn't noticed went to toilet all bleary eyed looked down there was vlood all over floor and had dripped down my legs. It was insane. I thought I was bleeding elsewhere. Then I felt my face.

As soon as I had her they stopped. Didn't have them with the boys