Re: bruise-like mark from meds?

[Guest guest]

I bruise all the time. Never know why! Sue#2 is the EXPERT on this though.

It's very common w/ MTX and prednisone and also with the Stills in general I

believe. Love to ya. --Sue

[Guest guest]

I bruise very easily. Just a simple tap can do it. And simple tasks like

carrying in grocery bags on my arms will cause a striped bruise.

My load bearing areas, especially my feet, bruise if jolted or pressured

when I flare.

The methotrexate, prednisone, vasculitis, and general inflammation is the

cause in my case.

If it looks like a sore, not a bruise, see your doctor.

I also run over myself with riding lawnmowers once in a great while, which

usually leads to severe bruising, especially my forehead when I slap it

afterwards, but that is another story.

-Brent

Re: bruise-like mark from meds?

I bruise all the time. Never know why! Sue#2 is the EXPERT on this though.

It's very common w/ MTX and prednisone and also with the Stills in general I

believe. Love to ya. --Sue

[Guest guest]

hi Brent & Sue---It's not like a regular bruise---but maybe he hurt himself and

cant remember--it is red as well not blue????? and it doesn't hurt either???? It

just appeared overnight??

Hopefully the good dr will have some news.

Have a good day

Re: bruise-like mark from meds?

I bruise all the time. Never know why! Sue#2 is the EXPERT on this though.

It's very common w/ MTX and prednisone and also with the Stills in general I

believe. Love to ya. --Sue

[Guest guest]

I remember that when I was on Methotrexate and Prednisone I also felt

nauseated and was anemic and bruised easily. I think it was more the

Methotrexate but I think the combo didn't help.

jatw@...

[Guest guest]

I have noticed since I started Methotrexate that I started bruising a lot.

I mean a lot too! I get bruises that I don't even know how they got there.

Before mtx I at least knew why a bruise occurred. But I have bruises,

somtimes very large ones, for no reason at all. So maybe mtx is the abuser!

LOL.

Finicia

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> I bruise all the time. Never know why! Sue#2 is the EXPERT on this

though.

> It's very common w/ MTX and prednisone and also with the Stills in

general I

> believe. Love to ya. --Sue

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[Guest guest]

Hello Everyone,

I hope that all of you who are bruising so easily get your blood tested

regularly to make sure that everything is okay. I just want my Still's

Friends to be as healthy as possible.

Have A Good Night,

jatw@...

[Guest guest]

Dear Finicia,

Please go to your dr. and get a blood test. That

happened to me when I was on gold. I don't want to

scare you, but in my case if I had taken another shot

it could have been disasterous! Sometimes these drugs

affect the platelets. I noticed I was bruising and I

was sure I hadn't bumped into anything. I am worried

for you. Please take care. It is better to be safe

than sorry.

All the best

Caroline

--- Finicia Murray Compton

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> I have noticed since I started Methotrexate that I

> started bruising a lot.

> I mean a lot too! I get bruises that I don't even

> know how they got there.

> Before mtx I at least knew why a bruise occurred.

> But I have bruises,

> somtimes very large ones, for no reason at all. So

> maybe mtx is the abuser!

> LOL.

>

> Finicia

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> > I bruise all the time. Never know why! Sue#2 is

> the EXPERT on this

> though.

> > It's very common w/ MTX and prednisone and also

> with the Stills in

> general I

> > believe. Love to ya. --Sue

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[Guest guest]

Hi all,

got home at midnight last night from Mayo Clinic (Rochester) will

write more about that later. Just had to comment here.

last July when I received my left shoulder repacment..I was off of MTX for

several weeks. (am on a *low* dose of steroids) all the bruising and " blood

spots " I was getting, and there were a lot of them..never showed up during

those weeks. I have asked y rhuemy, family doc and pharmicist what was

causing all those ugly bruisy blood type marks. Some small, some large. Size

from eraser type to top of pill bottle type. They all kept telling me " it's

from

the steroids, the MTX doesn't do that. " *But,* I wasn't getting them before

the MTX! So when being off the MTX for those several weeks and there

were no spots...I went in to show my family doc (he was taking the stictches

out of the shoulder) " look, no bruises/blood spots..right? " He had to agree

there weren't any. I took my daighter-in-law in with me as a witness.

So...Finicia..

I agree with you. It can be from Methotrexate.

Tricia (tired in Wisconsin)

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> > I bruise all the time. Never know why! Sue#2 is the EXPERT on this

> though.

> > It's very common w/ MTX and prednisone and also with the Stills in

> general I

> > believe. Love to ya. --Sue

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