Appearance of blue marks / bruising

I have a round dark blue mark on the outside of my arm, just above my elbow. This mark is certainly not caused by bumping into something or anything like that. I've been getting this dark blue mark every other two weeks on exactly the same spot. I had a bigger dark blue mark on the inside of my leg just below my knee as well, just noticed it out of the blue. And also my nose seems to be bleeding quite frequently (at least once a month) is this normal?

[Avinash R Kakade]

Hello,

The appearance of such frequent bruises cannot definitely be considered normal unless and untill proved otherwise.

May I suggest you to see a hematologist or atleast get your complete blood picture with peripheral smear examination done. This would throw light on the platelet count. You would even need to undergo tests like Prothrombin time, Activated partial thromboplastin time, bleeding time and clotting time and such other hematological tests to come to a diagnosis.

Keep me in loop of the happenings.

Regards.