Love Bite?

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Changed name for this.
Found a mark on my Husband's hip this morning that looks a lot like a love bite. It's small, round and has bright red tiny spots in it. I have no reason to think he's up to to no good. Could there be an innocent explanation for this? It definitely doesn't look like a normal bruise. Can't get it out of my head and work out what else it could be.

What did he say when you asked him?

I probably approached it wrong. When I saw it I said instantly that it looked like a love bite, he initially laughed and said don't be silly, but then got quite angry and started calling me mental etc.
This has made me more suspicious to be honest, but at the same time if it is innocent then I can understand why he felt angry.

Is he slim ?

I quite often bang my hip bones on the edge of tables etc and get roundish bruises

Yes he is slim and thinks he may have done it in the gym.
It just doesn't look like any kind of bruise I've ever seen him with before, it looks exactly like a love bite does, that's why I can't get it out of my head.

I have occasionally had small round bruises with dots in, but they were always from a really painful knock that I'd remember. Usually from walking past a desk at work at speed a bit too close to the corner. Does he know where he got the bruise from?

If I have a bruise with dots in it, it's usually because I've knocked it whilst wearing material/through my clothes.

No he doesn't remember and said it doesn't hurt.
Good to know that it's possible to get bruises that look like love bites though, thanks x

It’s called petacheia (I can’t spell it) - I get them on and off. My Godson had one recently from a knock on a trampoline.

Bit of a weird place to get a love bite surely? I tended to get them on chemo when my platelets were low in my arms mainly.

Maybe he has a higher pain tolerance than me as those ones were painful to do, and painful afterwards. I think I had one on my knee from a bit of lego before, has he been laying on the floor where there are lego-type things about?

Maybe I'm naive but isn't the hip a weird place for a love bite? If my dh who I trusted had a bruise, love bite is the last thing I'd think of ..

Petechiae

I've had marks like that on my hips (cluster of little red dots) and they were from a pair of pants that "nipped" as they rubbed but I hadn't realised until I took them off and saw it.

DH also gets them on his hips from where the elastic on the top of his boxer shorts nips/rubs against certain trousers he wears.

It would be more suspicious if he was hiding it.

I used to get these a lot, and I could never explain them. Sometimes they just randomly appeared, other times, I’d get really itchy and know one was coming.

Thanks AF, never been able to spell it!

They don’t tend to hurt, can be from things rubbing too.

Thanks everyone for your reassurance, it sits right on the elastic bit of his boxers so sounds like it's because of that.
Have been upset about it all day. Ridiculous really!
Glad I posted and found out this is normal!

Peh-tee-kee-aye

Pinpoint bruising