bruising

[billyandsarah99]

I have a question. For the last 3 mnths or so my thighs have been covered in small bruises. They are fingertip size. I also have one big bruise about the size of a baseball on the inside of my leg on my knee that has been there for about 3 mnths and never healed. There are days when it will get red like it is in the healing stage but then later on goes back to the reg. bruise. I always count the bruises and on any given day I have anywhere from 15-32 bruises on each leg. Like I said most of them on my thighs, with a couple on my legs. They don't hurt at all. I have been having right leg bone pain, and don't know if this is related. That has been going on for about a yr or so. I have went to the dr for the pain. All he did was asked if I ran (I told him to look at my fat ass does it look like I run alot :P ) He said I was having bone pain but didn't know why, gave me pain pills and sent me on my way. After I had my son it came back I was anmeic and I was put on iron pills for a lil bit. So I didn't know if maybe this was related either? But if it was that, wouldn't I be bruising everywhere? What do you guys think the bruises are caused from?
Thank you all so much!

[PlateletGal]

Bruising, by itself, can be caused by bleeding disorders such as hemophilia, Von Willebrand's disease, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or immune disorders. However, bruising with bone pain (if those two symptoms are related) could be something more serious (leukemia) or a rare disease. My opinion --- not medical advice: I would follow-up with my physician and especially if I notice any other symptoms and/or call my physician and discuss this with him/her.

[PlateletGal]

P.S. - I would also ask your physician to run a lab test on you (if he/she hasn't already). The name of the lab test is PT/INR.

[billyandsarah99]

When I was pregnant with my last son (he was born 6 mnths ago) my ob ran a test on me to try and find out why I had miscarried my lil girl so late in the pregnancy. It came back that I had protien S defiency, protien C defiency, and MTHFR mutation gene. So I had to take a baby aspirin and have shots of Lovenox everyday,along with being closely monitored and went to a specialist. After the pregnacy I got refered to a different specialist. He said it sounded like I had the opp. problem of my blood not clotting as opposed to clotting to easy. He rechecked my blood. One of them was on the borderline, but not enough to worry about and the other was okay.
So, do you know is it possible that since that was pregnancy induced, could my blood not clot when I am not pregnant and clot to easy when I am?

[billyandsarah99]

Also if it would be related to my leg pain would a sign of something be always having an elevated wbc count?

[PlateletGal]

I'm not sure. It does sound like they need to run more clotting factor tests on you and find out. It seems to me this is probably the problem and especially if your last lab test was borderline. Also, I've heard many women say that after pregnancy, their immune system is run down.

[PlateletGal]

If you still have a high white cell count, then that is even more reason to follow-up with your physician ASAP. Your physician needs to do a full-work up.

A high white cell count can be due to infections, inflammation disorders, leukemia, cancer, steriod use, collagen vascular disorders and other conditions.

[billyandsarah99]

okay hun, thanks for all your help! :)

[PlateletGal]

Good luck ! If I were you, I would be agressive just in case. You shouldn't have a repeatedly high white cell count.

Keep in touch.

[billyandsarah99]

I will hun. I will update you on what I find out. Agian thank you so much!