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Feb. 12th, 2013 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisFor reasons I'm not entirely clear on, I get these ugly blood bruises on my hands and arms if I even lightly knock against anything. They don't hurt but they look so gross. If they were on the back of my thighs I would not give a shit since I couldn't see them but I look at my hands and arms all day long. I have taken to wearing long sleeves whenever possible. In winter, this actually helps, I think, providing a kind of cushion. My sleeves aren't thick enough in Summer to help much but at least it covers them up.
Lately I'd been doing so well. My a
rms are mostly ugly blotch free and I had only one spot on my right hand. And then today came. I went swimming (water does not cause the bruises, thankfully) and spent the rest of the day working on the newsletter. Where the fuck is the bump in that????
Then I went to empty the litter box and gather the trash. Fuck and fuckity fuck. I now have two spots on one hand and one nice, dark fresh one on the other.
It's not like my hands look all that grate anyway, they are old and wrinkled and dried up looking and now we can add plague like splotches to the mix. I think I'm going to put gloves on and never take them off.
Lately I'd been doing so well. My a
rms are mostly ugly blotch free and I had only one spot on my right hand. And then today came. I went swimming (water does not cause the bruises, thankfully) and spent the rest of the day working on the newsletter. Where the fuck is the bump in that????Then I went to empty the litter box and gather the trash. Fuck and fuckity fuck. I now have two spots on one hand and one nice, dark fresh one on the other.
It's not like my hands look all that grate anyway, they are old and wrinkled and dried up looking and now we can add plague like splotches to the mix. I think I'm going to put gloves on and never take them off.
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Date: 2013-02-12 11:38 pm (UTC)I thought i remembered you saying you take some kind of steroid, maybe an inhaler? That's why you get the blotches. Other possible causes are any kind of blood thinner including baby aspirin, some types of hormone therapy, getting older, or just plain sensitive skin.
We all have thinner skin as we age, but those factors i just listed exacerbates that type of thinning A LOT. I've seen those thin white cotton gloves in stores and i've thought about it just because i beat the hell outta my hands at work washing them non stop. It takes so much moisture out of my hands that i'm always trying to protect them otherwise. I bet there's some natural remedy you could apply, maybe check it out at the health food store.
Glad they don't hurt though.
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Date: 2013-02-12 11:44 pm (UTC)Makes total sense and the cotton gloves idea is a great one. Thanks!!!
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Date: 2013-02-13 12:16 am (UTC)xx
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Date: 2013-02-13 12:22 am (UTC)I just found them and put them on. no lace but there is some black!!! Thanks!!!
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Date: 2013-02-13 12:43 am (UTC)we don't have plastic grocery bags here any more so at least i'm safe there!
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Date: 2013-02-13 03:11 am (UTC)I have terrible red blotches on my ankles from bad circulation, and they don't go away - so I understand.
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Date: 2013-02-13 06:33 pm (UTC)can't you arrange to get the splotches in a pattern?
Date: 2013-02-14 07:57 am (UTC)Re: can't you arrange to get the splotches in a pattern?
Date: 2013-02-14 03:58 pm (UTC)