Nosebleeds (may be TMI for some)

This is my third attempt at posting this; I have no idea why my home
software won't let me start a thread, but it won't.

Over the last few weeks I've been getting increasing numbers of
nosebleeds; I think this weekend hit the nadir, I managed two on
Friday (one at work and one in the Underground going home) and two on
Sunday, one spontaneous while I was happily surfing the web and one
when I put my skin medication on. I don't pick my nose in case you
were wondering, and definitely not either at work on on the
Underground!

I'm a bit fed up with this as this has been going on from time to time
since November. A doctor at my practice (not my usual GP but one of
the others) when I saw him after the one in the swimming pool in
December which left me looking like I'd gone ten rounds with Mike
Tyson (as in 'her face was a mask of blood') said it was a bacterial
nasal infection. He prescribed an antibiotic cream which I had to put
up my nostrils on my little fingers. Yes, major 'yuck' there. And it
seems to have made no difference whatsoever.

I'm going back to my own doctor today to see what he says and try and
get a straight answer about what the problem is, and/or a referral to
an ear, nose and throat specialist. At least I live in a country with
an NHS!

What I think is this: I have some dodgy blood vessels which are very
close to the surface in my nose. Even closer than most other people.
Added to this my blood seems thinner now I low carb than it used to be
- it is disctinctly more liquid. It's now liquid in the way that
water is liquid rather than (as it used to be) liquid in the way that
single cream is liquid. When I last gave blood I was able to fill the
bag in about ten minutes rather than the half an hour it had usually
taken me, so I'm sure I'm not imagining it. I think that this means
that the blood vessels in my nose are more liable to damage than they
used to be. I also think that had my blood been this liquid when my
blood pressure was 145/85 I might have had even more problems than I
do now it's around 129/75. I also think the solution is likely to
involve having my nose cauterised.

Do people agree? Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone
have any advice? (I do know, after all these weeks, what to do for a
nosebleed!)

--
Lexin
(300/237/182)

In article ,
says...
Do people agree? Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone
have any advice? (I do know, after all these weeks, what to do for a
nosebleed!)

No real advice. I've gone through times here and there when I've been prone to
nosebleeds for a month or two, but then the problem cleared up on it's own. One
of those times I'll NEVER forget. I had an orgasm and my nose started to bleed!!
I was on TOP and it spontaneously came gushing out!! What a lovely visual THAT
must have been ;-) At least *I* was done :-) Oh well, if so inclined, he now
has the right to brag that he took me to such passionate heights of delight that
I actually got a nosebleed from the sheer bliss of it all ;-)

Then there was that year I had to keep explaining to doctors exactly HOW I ended
up bruising my tailbone ...

--
Saffire
205/176/125
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

Lexin wrote:
Its nosebleed season Lexin. The heater is on and it dries you out, and you
get nosebleeds!
Get a humidifier!

preesi

Saffire wrote:
One of those times I'll NEVER forget. I had an orgasm and
| my nose started to bleed!!

Dos this mean that you no longer have a virgin nose?

(Sorry, it was just too easy ... g)

--
Peter
website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo

Lexin wrote:

This is my third attempt at posting this; I have no idea why my home
software won't let me start a thread, but it won't.

Over the last few weeks I've been getting increasing numbers of
nosebleeds; I think this weekend hit the nadir, I managed two on
Friday (one at work and one in the Underground going home) and two on
Sunday, one spontaneous while I was happily surfing the web and one
when I put my skin medication on. I don't pick my nose in case you
were wondering, and definitely not either at work on on the
Underground!

I'm a bit fed up with this as this has been going on from time to time
since November. A doctor at my practice (not my usual GP but one of
the others) when I saw him after the one in the swimming pool in
December which left me looking like I'd gone ten rounds with Mike
Tyson (as in 'her face was a mask of blood') said it was a bacterial
nasal infection. He prescribed an antibiotic cream which I had to put
up my nostrils on my little fingers. Yes, major 'yuck' there. And it
seems to have made no difference whatsoever.

I'm going back to my own doctor today to see what he says and try and
get a straight answer about what the problem is, and/or a referral to
an ear, nose and throat specialist. At least I live in a country with
an NHS!

What I think is this: I have some dodgy blood vessels which are very
close to the surface in my nose. Even closer than most other people.
Added to this my blood seems thinner now I low carb than it used to be
- it is disctinctly more liquid. It's now liquid in the way that
water is liquid rather than (as it used to be) liquid in the way that
single cream is liquid. When I last gave blood I was able to fill the
bag in about ten minutes rather than the half an hour it had usually
taken me, so I'm sure I'm not imagining it. I think that this means
that the blood vessels in my nose are more liable to damage than they
used to be. I also think that had my blood been this liquid when my
blood pressure was 145/85 I might have had even more problems than I
do now it's around 129/75. I also think the solution is likely to
involve having my nose cauterised.

Do people agree? Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone
have any advice? (I do know, after all these weeks, what to do for a
nosebleed!)

--
Lexin
(300/237/182)

First, you might want to talk to your dr about it. Then, assuming
all is okay, take a supplement that includes vitamin K (this is
not potassium). Eat pork and other foods that contain same. My
daughter had a lot of nosebleeds when she was a kid, and that got
her out of that cycle.
--
Jean B.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:41:47 -0500, "Preesi" wrote:

Get a humidifier!

I'll second this suggestion. I've had nosebleeds all my life and they are kept to
a minimum as long as I have the humidifier running in my home during the heating
season. The only ones I get now is when I'm too lazy to fill my humidifier for a
week during the winter.

L.

Try taking an Iron supplement.

Andi

snip

Then there was that year I had to keep explaining to doctors exactly HOW I ended
up bruising my tailbone ...

I'd like to know. I'm guessing from rough doggy style sex. Right?

Saffire wrote:
Then there was that year I had to keep explaining to doctors exactly HOW I ended up bruising my tailbone ...

I have to ask, though this may be a mistake: how did you bruise your
tailbone, Saffire?

--
Lexin
(300/237/182)

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:41:47 -0500, "Preesi"
wrote:

Lexin wrote:
Its nosebleed season Lexin. The heater is on and it dries you out, and you
get nosebleeds!
Get a humidifier!

preesi

Ridiculous, sweeping advice like this, which includes no medical
attention or supervision, is dangerous, callous and downright idiotic.

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