Where do random bruises on your legs come from? I never fall or anything
from sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 31 Aug 20:25
https://sopuli.xyz/post/32949068

My divan does suck ass

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expatriado@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 20:52 next collapse

sleepwalking

BillDaCatt@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 21:00 next collapse

Do you have a dog? My dog like to crash into me when he is playing.

Other possibilities are bumping into chairs or tables as you walk by.

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 31 Aug 21:02 collapse

Thats plausible i probably bump into my divan

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 01 Sep 04:46 collapse

pressure? varicose veins kind of thing. one time i was feeling a tingly sensation and stinging painon one of my finger i could not see any bruising, but apparently the blood vessels kinda ruptured somehow, but i dont remember hitting anything. apparently they can just burst from pressure and cause a bruise without hitting something, or lightly hititng something.

Also i have this wierd bruise that appeared around the time my atopic dermatitis flares to, apparently theres inflammation related bruising.(it only flared one other time in '16).

of course there are systemic causes, but those are usually more, requiring a DR to diagnosis.

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 01 Sep 05:02 collapse

I dont have any of thos

Maeve@kbin.earth on 31 Aug 21:08 next collapse

If you can afford it, get a WBC test.

tanisnikana@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 21:12 next collapse

My legs would like to know this question.

Actually they prolly just get whacked with my own cane fairly often.

DisOne@lemmy.zip on 31 Aug 21:37 next collapse

Sometimes from knocks that seem minor to your brain, but they just bust a small blood vessel inside - enough to give a little bruise.

I most often see them when moving boxes around, especially heavy boxes. The next day you see a few and don’t even remember hitting that part of you.

One thing that helps remind me where I got a bruise is pressing the centre of the bruise. The resulting pain links back to the pain you got at the time. I don’t recommend this though coz it hurts

Nougat@fedia.io on 31 Aug 21:48 next collapse

Have you been to Canada recently?

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 31 Aug 21:49 collapse

Not recently no

fox2263@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 22:00 next collapse

Aliens

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 31 Aug 22:03 collapse

I think they’d go for a little more than just mild brusing, which, hell, cant even blame em. Dis booty toofiiiiine

aramis87@fedia.io on 31 Aug 22:08 next collapse

Bags of groceries, using your legs to hold doors open, bumping crossbars under tables, etc.

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 31 Aug 22:12 next collapse

I have been questioning whether or not I chipped my shin bone on a shopping cart. I noticed this hard, but free floating lump around my shin where I had smacked it against the underside of a shopping cart not that long ago. It doesn’t hurt and I can move it around inside my body like it’s not attached to anything, and there’s also a divet in the bone on that leg that isn’t on the other. Again, it doesn’t hurt at all tho and in my experience, a broken, chipped or cracked bone is the most painful thing I have ever experienced so there’s no way it can be that… right?

Raiderkev@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 22:39 collapse

I did this on when I slipped out on a box snowboarding. My shin straight up has little peaks and valleys from bone chips that presumably came lose that day and relocated and I’m guessing eventually healed / just fused into their new spot? It hurt like a bitch at the time, but I knew I didn’t break it and never went to the DR about it. It must look real interesting on an X ray. Now if I slide the skin up and down on my shin you can see all the chips. I don’t have any pain from it, just a weird injury with a bit of a story to tell.

riskable@programming.dev on 31 Aug 23:25 next collapse

Go to the doctor!

Random, mysterious bruising can be caused by a lot of things. From diabetes to split personality disorder.

k0e3@lemmy.ca on 01 Sep 01:24 next collapse

It could also be a low level curse of some sort, so go see a local wizard as well. In Japan, those aren’t covered by the National health insurance though so check your local regulations.

subignition@fedia.io on 01 Sep 01:53 collapse

We're off to see the Wizard,
the wonderful Wizard of Wa.

jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works on 01 Sep 04:58 collapse

Or carbon monoxide poisoning making you forget

RBWells@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 01:59 next collapse

I often knock into something, yell “fuck!” because it hurts, then immediately forget about it when it stops hurting.

If you are like that, no worries, maybe a little more mindfulness.

If you mean something like Trump, big bruises on your hand spontaneously? Go to a doctor, please.

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 01 Sep 02:01 collapse

I wonder if cursing sparingly but only during painful stuff actually activates the endogenous opioid system more to provide analgesia to the pain

Hugin@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 04:06 collapse

There have been MRI studies that show swearing reduces pain response in the brain.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7204505/

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 01 Sep 04:21 collapse

Is that benefit attenuated by prophylactic opioid antagonist?

Birch@sh.itjust.works on 01 Sep 05:31 next collapse

Diabeetus

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 01 Sep 05:33 collapse

No

  • no genetic occurrence or history of diabetes
  • underweight if anything
  • generally avoid sugar or otherwise minimize it
  • no other positive symptoms

I’d sooner suspect Lupus

Birch@sh.itjust.works on 02 Sep 13:28 collapse

Type 1 Diabeetus

mateofeo85@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 05:55 collapse

SATAN SATAN SATAN

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 01 Sep 05:57 collapse

Finally! Something actionable…