![]() “So if you can relate it back to one of those things, or any minor trauma, obviously it’s more likely that’s what it is.” If you can’t think of anything at all that might be responsible for those symptoms, you might want to consider getting an ultrasound, but again - bruises aren’t likely to be a part of it. “It could be a strain, or a muscle cramp that you get in the middle of the night, that can actually tear the muscle and cause pain and swelling,” he says. Jacobowitz says the important thing to do is to ask yourself whether or not your symptoms can be traced back to any likelier explanations. I pointed out that swelling and pain are also fairly common symptoms, and some people might take that kind of information and run with it. The most common symptoms of blood clots (and DVT) are swelling and pain, says Jacobowitz, so a bruise unaccompanied by either shouldn’t be cause for concern. “If you just find bruising on your body, whether it’s your arms, your legs, or anything - that’s almost never a blood clot.” “Deep vein thrombosis (or DVT) is a blood clot in the veins,” says Jacobowitz. Most bruises are innocuous and heal easily on their own, but for those of you who like to take to the internet to research: (a) don’t, but (b) consider first the advice of Glenn Jacobowitz, professor and chief of vascular surgery at NYU Langone Health. After a momentary teenage fascination with the Habsburgs I wondered if I, too, was a hemophiliac (which can also cause bruising), even though I, unlike so many Habsburgs, am not the result of decades of inbreeding. (Right?) There are too many at any given point for me to keep track of, and I too have occasionally worried that something more serious was going on - especially with those ones that turn yellow. As a clumsy and lanky person, I know this phenomenon well: Sure, I know the provenance of some of my bruises, but surely they can’t ALL be from running into things. ![]() I think I Googled something like “mysterious bruise blood clot die?”Īh, the mystery bruise, my lifelong companion. One time I got a huge, mysterious, PERFECTLY ROUND bruise on my outer left thigh and was convinced I was going to contract deep vein thrombosis. ![]() You can email us your hypochondriac questions at. The European Medicines Agency yesterday said that it had seen seven cases of disseminated intravascular coagulation in 20 million people given the AstraZeneca jab.Welcome to Am I Dying, a column that hopes to save you from your late-night WebMD spiraling. Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) The drug giant says that the numbers of blood clots “are lower than the number that would have occurred naturally in the unvaccinated population”. In comparison, the figure was 38 cases among the first 10.7million Pfizer vaccines.ĪZ has found fewer than 40 cases of blood clots and related conditions in 17 million people vaccinated across Europe. This is far lower than what would be expected, experts say.īoth the EMA and the MHRA have said the vaccine are safe and effective.įor this reason, Brits have been told to carry on taking the vaccine because the benefits of protection against Covid outweighs and potential risk of the jab.īlood clots - which can cause heart attacks and strokes - are “not uncommon” scientists say, diagnosed about 3,000 times a month in the UK.Ībout 30 blood clots were reported by 9.7million people given Oxford doses by late February. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said there had been just 30 reports of blood clots among close to five million people given the AstraZeneca vaccine across Europe. Superficial bleeding into the skin that appears as a rash of pinpoint-sized reddish-purple spots (petechiae), usually on the lower legs.What are the symptoms of thrombocytopenia? ![]() In rare cases, the number of platelets can be so low that dangerous internal bleeding occurs. Thrombocytopenia is another type of blood clot which happens when your blood platelet count is so low that the blood is not efficiently clotting when it needs to. The symptoms below occur in patients who are suffering from DVT: The patient experiences pain, bruising, warmth and shining skin Credit: Getty - Contributor 4 The illustration above shows deep vein thrombosis. ![]()
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