Go to the doctor!
Random, mysterious bruising can be caused by a lot of things. From diabetes to split personality disorder.
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Or carbon monoxide poisoning making you forget
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.
We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Wa.
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 donβt 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 donβt recommend this though coz it hurts
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Finally! Something actionable....
If you can afford it, get a WBC test.
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.
Thats plausible i probably bump into my divan
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.
I dont have any of thos
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.
I wonder if cursing sparingly but only during painful stuff actually activates the endogenous opioid system more to provide analgesia to the pain
There have been MRI studies that show swearing reduces pain response in the brain.
Is that benefit attenuated by prophylactic opioid antagonist?
Bags of groceries, using your legs to hold doors open, bumping crossbars under tables, etc.
sleepwalking
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?
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.
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I think they'd go for a little more than just mild brusing, which, hell, cant even blame em. Dis booty toofiiiiine
Diabeetus
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
Type 1 Diabeetus
Diabeetush
My legs would like to know this question.
Actually they prolly just get whacked with my own cane fairly often.