Posted on 10/23/2020 10:56:42 AM PDT by conservative98
No danger. The bruising has no pain and I don’t know I have them unless I look. I’ve had a lot of years of good hiking, running and riding horses in the American West, so I figure some painless bruising now is a small price to pay. But I’ve noticed it gets worse fast if I take any blood thinners so I avoid things like aspirin now.
Looks like he took a fall.
I am very glad to hear that.
Sounds like a great many years of enjoying what you liked to do.
True. I am impressed that you have a proven technique, though, for reducing damage.
You missed the update. The FIB asked to interview Bobulinski. So the Senate canceled their hearing. Wray is setting him up for a process crime as we speak.
It wasn’t even a hearing. Just an interview with no doubt Trump hating Senate staffers. Johnson has known about the laptop since last month and is running out the clock. Only one more week to go.
Blood thinners reduce the tendency of blood to clot. I'm not an expert but I will describe what I think I know.
Clotting of blood is a multi-step process that involves specialized blood cells called platelets. Some medications can cause low platelets and this can interfere with normal blood clotting.
I was surprised to learn that the gauze in a bandage evidently holds the platelets in place encouraging them to clot.
Another thing that encourages clotting is turbulence. In a normal person the blood coursing through their circulatory system is moving smoothly from place to place. When the heart muscle relaxes, for example, blood can enter the ventricles of the heart. When the heart beats, the blood should move smoothly into arteries supplying the body.
Some types of heart damage, such as occurs after heart attacks, can cause the heart to beat irregularly. One type of irregularity is called "atrial fibrillation" or AFIB. Patients with AFIB can have an elevated heart rate or an irregular beat or both. When this happens, the blood does not move smoothly through the heart but instead is turbulent. This can cause clotting and the resulting clot, depending upon where the clot ends up, can cause a stroke, heart attack, or blood clots in an extremity or an organ.
Blood thinners are prescribed for some patients with AFIB to reduce the chances of dangerous clotting.
Some blood thinners can be counteracted by other medications. This is valuable when a patient reacts poorly to a blood thinner. Others cannot be counteracted and the patient must wait until they are metabolized. During the wait extensive internal bleeding might be occurring. (I'll let you guess how I know this.)
Good Lord!!
How bad was the internal bleeding??
Sounds like a helpful in some cases and deadly in other cases kind of drug.
I got a stent about 2 years ago.
They put me on two potent blood thinners and a time release aspirin tab.
Our joke, was if my wife looked a me for over a couple of seconds, I had bruises where she looked.
I dced the potent blood thinner after one year. The bruising went away for the most part. Then, they changed my baby aspirin to a different time release formula. My bruising basically disappeared. My latest time release aspirin seems to be causing some bruising. We bought the original name brand aspirin and will see how it works.
When, I was on Eliquis by itself, there was minimal bruising.
After two bouts of blood clots from my feet to my lungs, I
was placed on Warfarin Sodium (Coumadin) in 1992. I have
taken it daily since then.
My worst bout of clotting took place around 1991. I hurt
my right leg pitching a softball double header. Won the
first game and lost by a run or two the second.
Pitched the second game on one foot, standing on my toes
with the second. Thought I had pulled a muscle. Didn’t
really give it any thought. Aches and pains had come and
gone over the twenty years I played. Thought this would
too.
Four weeks later the pain had subsided, but one evening
I started to go up the stairs and was out of breath after
four steps.
My physician (a friend) told me to get to the hospital
immediately. There they found that I had clotting from
my right foot to my lungs, and had 75% involvement of
clots there.
At the time they used Abbokinase on me, and that’s the
only thing that saved my right leg. I listened to the
ultrasound of my left leg, sounding like a roaring
river. My right leg was nearly silent.
The Abbokinase side effect was the shivers. After it
was administered my body started exaggerated shaking
on the gurney. I was semi-levitating an inch or two
off of it.
Warm blankets were placed on me and I was tucked in.
The shaking stopped abruptly. One physician happened
by about then, broke the blanket seal and it started
all over again. They brought a new set of blankets
and left me alone to let the medication wear off.
That one drug saved my leg no doubt, and it may have
saved the rest of me too. My clots dissolved, with
that and heparin therapy.
I don’t know how all blood thinners affect the body.
I have only used two. Warfarin basically brings me
back to a normal clotting situation. I do not bleed
profusely when I use it. I clot normally when I use
it. (I use Lovenox to get through a needed surgery
and the like.)
If I have a cut, it doesn’t bleed excessively. I’ve
also learned a trick. If you take a paper towel and
get it wet, squeeze most of the water out, then use
it as compress on your cut, your cut will stop bleeding
very quickly. The important thing is to apply pressure
with the wound as close to closed as you can get it,
so it can acclimate to that normal position as you
apply minimal (not excessive) pressure.
Apply pressure for a while 5-10 minutes. Don’t pull
it off to see how it’s doing every thirty seconds. By
the end of ten minutes, you probably won’t be bleeding
any longer, or perhaps just minimally.
IMO < what takes place is this. Blood looks for a way
to escape. Well, it isn’t looking, but any weak spot
will lend itself to blood escaping. Blood is a fluid,
and when you put a fluid on the other side of the weak
spot, you have an hydraulic equilibrium take place.
Fluid on the inside meets fluid on the outside.
Immobilized on the inside, blood stays there and quickly
builds up a static presence at the opening, clotting
rapidly.
Because you have kept the wound clean, pressed there
nearly in the position where it is one side of the
wound pressed against the other, it heals nicely and
you get less of a scar.
It has always been my thought, that creams or other
well meaning remedies placed on the new wound, prevents
the two sides of the wound from joining back together
cleanly.
Obviously, if it’s a dirty wound, you do need to take
measures to clean and disinfect. I still do my best
not to place a lot of gunk on the wound. I want the
body to be able to heal unhindered.
When the wound is freshest, allow it to bleed for a few
moments, because is is flushing possible germs from the
intrusion site. Allow it to flush momentarily, 15-30
seconds, and then apply pressure as described.
You’ll be amazed at how quickly the bleeding stops.
Cold water seems to speed up clotting during the
process.
Even with anti-coagulants, my cuts don’t bleed more
than a minute or so. When you do lift the paper towel,
move to a clean spot on it when you apply pressure again.
This contributes to a clean site, and provides a better
way to observe progress toward stopping the bleeding.
Towel spot one, red. Towel spot two, less red. Towel
spot three yellow, and towel spot 5-8, no bleeding,
all clear. Keep the pressure on a while longer. (times
will vary)
Make sure it gets to stabilize closed. Then fold
a new paper towel that is damp, and wrap the wound
finger or where ever. Scotch tape it there with
moderate pressure.
All done.
Within a day or two you’ll be roaming around with nothing
on the wound any longer.
I lucked out the first time. Just did what seemed natural.
This is the Deep South..
When she was young interracial coupling was rare and frowned on
That didn’t stop black guys from exposing themselves
Including when she was an adult.....and the freak was a cop who did it when he pulled her over and came up to the car
She’s no miner...
Either that, or he tried to beat some ANTIFA thugs fist with his face.
Interesting photos of Mitch, but only half the story; how does Lisa Murkowski look?
LOL, that’s funny.
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