How can I bruise so badly and not realise?

[wingingatlife]

I get whopping bruises and yet can't recall hurting myself. This has been on/off for years. Any idea? I've had blood tests for other things before and never raised this to a doctor, blood tests haven't shown anything.

Here's my thigh. About day 7 of this beast

If you've never mentioned this to the doctor, you may well not have had the right blood tests to check this out. Raise it to your doctor, and they can check if you have had the right tests, and if not can do them.

I'd mention this to your doctor.

I get this. As a child my parents were actually called into my school because I was always black with bruises and there was concern about abuse. My mother was mortified. I currently have one leg which is virtually black from hip to knee, and the other which has blue spots all down the calf. I have had all manner of tests and am fine, just clumsy. I teach, and pretty much every mark corresponds to the corner of a desk or chair.

Do you sometimes bleed a lot, or have you had significant bleeding following dental work or operations?

Have the tests included a full blood count?

I think it wouid be worth seeing your GP again and asking specifically about that. Sorry to be alarming, but bruising easily can be a symptom of blood cancer. If your previous tests included FBC, and your symptoms haven't changed, then it's probably only a remote chance.

noeuf I do, my blood takes forever to clot, although funnily enough, no issues when I had a wisdom tooth out last year. Even a paper cut can be a bloodbath, which is unfortunate because I’m a lecturer. I have also been tested wrt this, but nothing of alarm came up. My grandpa was haemophiliac and while I know women can’t have that, I am sure if I had been a man I would have had.

I'm asking because my family has just been diagnosed with Von willenbrands. It's a bit tricky to do through the NHS - plus the factor pleats to be erratic so sometimes you bleed loads and sometimes you don't.

There is treatment available pre surgery or during a bleed and we all are now under a centre. Once the first person paid privately and was diagnosed we all got tested under the NHS as it is hereditary.

www.hemophilia.org/Bleeding-Disorders/Types-of-Bleeding-Disorders/Von-Willebrand-Disease