Bruises symptoms and conditions

I am also really glad I have found this website. I had my mirena placed in March 2006. I loved it, told all my friends thought it was a miracle. I have completely changed my mind. I have dizziness, headaches, joint pain and my PCP put on Lexapro for anxiety and mild depression in September 09.
I have a 3 and 4 year old, but am so fatigued at times I don't want to do anything but sit around. I can not lose any weight. I tried nutrisystem and
that didn't help. I am also having having a symptom that hasn't been mentioned on the site. I have done some research and noticed that the mirena can also cause blood vessels to constrict. In December 08 after having some (quite a few) drinks and smoking cigaretts at my husbands
Christmas Party the next morning my forearms and hands were a dusty blue color. I have had this happen one time since. A couple of times the bottoms of my feet were a purple/ bluish color looked as if they were badly bruised. After researching the cause of this, the only thing I can find is that the mirena can also cause constriction of the blood vessels. Has anyone else had this happen???? I had and echocardiogram done, that was fine all my blood work has come back normal. Am seeing a neurologist, he has me scheduled for a nerve condition test, but he thinks
I may need to see a vascular doctor.

I have been on toprol for sometime now, and what I have found is, I have no sex drive at all which is causing problems in my marriage. I am always tired, can't remember anything short term that is and my shoulders are always hurting as if I have been lifting weights. I am also noticing bruises if any kind of pressure is applied to my skin which is weird. I also get swollen ankles and lots of hair loss. My vision is giving me lots of problems. I now wear glasses that are so thick you would think I borrowed them from the bottom of a Pepsi bottle. I just don't know what to do anymore. I have expressed most of my symptoms to my doctor, but my cries have gone unheard. I am afraid to stop taking the medication in fear of having a heat attack.. I have taken my daughter through a specialized school until she was able to manage herself but today I cannot remember how to do math or just simply write and essay which I think is weird. I am also having a hard time with spelling and reading long passages due to my lack of energy and concentration. Does anyone have advice that is helpful?

I am a 40 year old female. I have had several sinus infections and had been placedo n Avelox before. The doc kept asking me if I had any plans on pregnancy and continued to stress the strength of the drug. However, I had NO idea what would become of this last time. I had been taking it for about 4 days and went to the ENT and was told to stop taking it because my sinuses looked good. That day I struggled to breath and had to literally gasps for air. I developed a bruise on my left arm that looked as if someone had pinched me. I didn't think much of it until I woke up the next morning with another bruise on the right arm. I continued to develop these bruises until there were 6 altogether. A few days later my body began involuntary jerking. I felt like I was having seizures. I became tearful and so afraid. This med needs to GO AWAY!!! I cannot imagine what would have happened if I continued to take it. BE CAREFUL if you're daring enough to continue it. Thank God I have a praying partner and family that would NOT let me go!

Hey all. I have had asthmatic bronchitis for about 6-7 weeks now and I have never had asthma or bronchitis before. It started off as a normal flu for 3 days with fever. Then when the flu went away, I started having trouble breathing and shortness of breath. It felt like I ran a marathon walking to the bathroom. I never had that before. The doctor told me it was bronchitis. All tests were fine. I was taking azithromycin (took 3 paks of them) and that was the only thing that made me feel normal, but it did not get rid of the infection. Then I was placed on cipro and steroids. Now I'm not on any antibiotics. I'm taking prednisone and just started the advair inhaler. I was having asthma attacks that I never had before. Very scary. Did anyone have asthmatic bronchitis before??? What did you do to get over it and how long??? Please help!!!

When I first started taking Alesse I did have nausea for about one week. That was the least of my problems.
I became such a basket case! I cried at everything (both happy and sad movies) and wanted to hurt anyone around me (including myself). I actually felt suicidal at times, even though I'd never ever seriously consider it. This was extreme depression, despite being happier than ever with my boyfriend. It was so confusing. I would burst into tears randomly...and on the last day of taking the pill, (only two days ago!) I burst into tears in public. It was very embarrassing!
I gained ~10lbs during the first month. My appetite had no end to it. I pretty much had all the symptoms of pregnancy, minus breast tenderness. My Dr. scared me and told me I needed a pregnancy test. Luckily, I'm not pregnant.
I developed these painful, red bumps on my shins. At first it looked like bruises, now the Dr. says it's from the pill (but he wouldn't tell me what it was). Now I'm worried about blood clots and the like. I've heard of other women having these symptoms. So, it's not just me.
Finally, I had a lot of trouble sleeping at night. I'd wake up randomly, feeling as though I was high on caffeine, and not be able to relax for ~30mins afterwards. By the time the alarm went off, I was exhausted. I just had mono this past year, and losing sleep weakens me even more now.
Not only is Alesse totally wrong for me, but I'm changing doctors. If you know your symptoms are from the pill, find another one. It's NOT worth ruining your life. Thankfully my boyfriend is understanding!

I had open heart surgery August 23rd 2006 for a conginital heart defeat (Aortic Valve replaced with mechanical St Jude valve). I wanted a bio valve but Drs insisted I should have the mechanical valve because of my age (45 at the time).

Prior to my heart surgery I was a performer, singer/songwriter/actress/comedianne and I loved what I did. It was my life. Now, after 2+ years post-op and on Warfarin (7.5 mg daily for life) I feel like life has ended and I'm just a walking dead person. The effects I feel daily are as follows...

Dizziness
Severe Headaches
Blurred vision
Memory Loss
Fatigue
Weight Gain
Trouble concentating
Fluttering effect in my head/ears- Hard to explain
Hair loss
Unexplained pains in chest & left side of my body
Unable to sleep well
Tiredness- even when I've done nothing to be tired for
Nausea
Gas & Diarrhea off and on
teeth pain- Like I've drank something very cold
feeling in my head similar to a brain freeze- like you ate ice cream too fast
Night bleeds in my month- wake up with a mouth full of blood daily
What do think, is that enough??

I'm going in tomorrow for a cat scan because the headaches have been so bad they feel I need to be checked for brain tumor and/or internal bleeding. When I tell the Drs I think this is due to Wafarin they pratically laugh in my face as if to say, "Silly silly woman, don't be foolish! We know whats best for you. Remember, we saved your life!" Really? Did you?!

I want nothing more than to get off this rat poison and regain my life, but to do so could mean a stroke or heart attack. I would go under the knife again to have the mechanical valve removed and replaced with a biological valve, but do you think my insurance company (Kieser) would pay for a "silly" thing like that? Right!

Welcome to the greatest country in the world!

I'm going to start a website to help people like us. I want your stories, please send me your info, together we might make a change, what can it hurt to try? Email me ******

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I, too, felt FINE in the beginning. I thought it was so wonderful not to have to worry about taking a pill or anything!
What an amazing invention!
My sister was so gung-ho about it, I didn't want to tell her that my Mirena was giving me trouble. Well, I wanted to add one more post because today she called and I asked her about her Mirena.
She said, "Oh, I had mine removed WEEKS AGO!"
She, too, was having the same trouble as MOST OF US!

Never sleeping through the night w/out getting up to pee.

Getting mad at her kids for no reason.

Being TIRED all the time. Waking up not feeling RESTED.

Blurred vision, assuming her contacts were just messed up.

She had stabbing pains in her side... turns out the Mirena was cock-eyed and GREW into her UTERINE WALL... when they tried to remove it, it was stuck there. Luckily, the nurse gave it a good YANK and it came out, but it was definitely painful. She feels the pain still because it is still healing.

These are only a few of the side effects. It hadn't even occurred to me that my legs, too, are COVERED in BRUISES and I could never figure out where they came from.

I, too, have had burning and tight eyeballs. I NEVER wear my contacts anymore, because I constantly feel like I've had no sleep. I had to buy a SLEEP AID so I could try to get some good sleep!

Without getting TOO personal, I also understand why the Mirena is so effective. It's because you're too TIRED to want to be close to your husband, and you just want to be left ALONE all the time. (Not to mention, he won't want to get near the mega-beast anyway!)

My sister (before having her Mirena removed) also thought something was wrong with her health. So her doctor recommended she get her blood tested. Well, of course, everything came back perfectly healthy! Go figure! Well, she says that most of these symptoms are GONE since the removal. I have to wait another MONTH before getting mine out, since my doctor is going on vacation. But I feel better already, just knowing that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I hope you will consider these things, because so many of us have had the same things happen to us! And life is too short to let ONE DAY be ruined unnecessarily!!

I have been taking lisinopril/hctz for about 10 months, 4 months ago the hctz was raised to 25 mg and the lisinopril stayed at 10mg. I started developing what appeared to be food allergies. After eating certain foods (like chili, barbecue sauce and seasoned salt) i would start to itch anywhere there is tight clothing, always within 1 hour. Then within 3-4 more hours my whole body would be covered in really large hives. After overdosing on benadryl for about 24 hours the hives would subside but leave big purple skin bruises. My doctor thinks that the lisinopril is the culprit and has changed me to benicar.

I have been weaning off Prednisone for sometime, from 50mg down to 5mg in two week steps, 5mg at a time. I've had quite a few of the physical side effects of Prednisone, though none so severe that I would have considered not taking the drug, as it is helping the neuropathy that it was described for. When I hit the 5mg dose, I really seemed to be having trouble with my mental state. I seemed to switch back and forth from knowing what was going on to wondering if I was starting to go insane or losing touch with reality. Hard one to explain. It seems to occur later in the day when I am fairly tired. Back on 10 mg for the last three days and seem to be tired but not so mentally confused. Don't know if this is all from the Prednisone, though. Has anyone out there had any seemingly similar mental things happen on this drug. Thanks in advance for answering if you have had these experiences, they are scary and am hoping that it is the drug and not something else.

Have had two back to back ER visits because of severe hives on Buproprion (generic wellbutrin). Had been taking it for a little over two weeks. Was told that the wellbutrin couldn't be the cause (is the only drug I was taking) and it must be due to my CHRISTMAS TREE...uh-huh. But I'm a good sport, kept taking the drug even on the day I was in the ER. Hives go down by the first evening but after a shot of benadryl and steroids which knocks me out for the rest of the day. Next day I take oral benadryl, clariton, prescribed steroids, and use hydrocortizone cream (all recommended in ER), new hives but little...end of day, can barely walk because feet and thighs are one big hive. Ears, mouth, shoulders, arms, in between fingers....hives. BACK to the ER (lovely Christmas eve) and am told by a new Doc that it was stupid to keep taking the buproprion. This time more shots don't help. The hives keep coming for several more hours. It's the next day and they have gone down some but were so bad that I have been left with dark bruises in various locations. Yuck.

I had had some initial side effects that were pretty mild and all went away after the first nine days (insomnia, headache, dry mouth) but I will not be waiting to see if my airway stops constricting after a few more days of treatment. So...ouch.

my 95 yr. old mother was given 2 SMZ/TMP pills 12 hrs apart and within hours after the 2nd one, spiked a fever and became flush around her eyes and then her entire face. She ended up in the emergency room. Several days later she broke out with hives, red blotches, arm bruises, a skin infection, and blood vessel breaks on her arms and legs. She also itched terrible all over. Doctors thought it was her blood platelets causing this but they were wrong. She is allergic to sulfur drugs. Finally after 5 weeks now she seems to be improving. This is a very dangerous drug for some.

I have been on levothroid 25mg for a year but went to see an endocrinologist who switched me to Levoxyl 75mg which I have taken for a week. I have developed tiny bruises on my body. I am waiting for my doctors office to call back to see what they say. I don't think I want to take it anymore. I am glad i found this website. Thanks to everyone for all the information.

I just finished a 10 day (4xday) prescription of Flagyl (250 mg) prescribed by my Gastro doctor for treatment of (SIBO) Severe Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth. Two days after finishing Flagyl I broke out in hives all over my body and my upper eyelids were very swollen. Now my dermatologist has me on Zyrtec and Prednisone. Has anyone broken out with hives and had swollen eyes from taking Flagyl?

I was an occasional user of Ambien CR, took it if I couldn't sleep. Well a few weeks ago I couldn't sleep took an Ambien and woke up in bed the next morning with a crushed wrist, cheekbone, temporal bone, bruises etc. Apparently, I walked in my sleep had a serious fall (and concussion) then got myself back in bed???? I don't remember anything--including much of the next day, emergency room, operations etc. It was a nightmare. I seriously think this drug should be taken off the market. It made me wonder if I walked in my sleep after taking this before and had no recollection.
I have missed weeks of work, gone through several extensive operations and have been through a lot of pain. I have since read that I am one of many ambien sleepwalkers with all kinds of results---why are they still allowing this drug to be on the market????

Like so many of you, I Googled "tissue atrophy" and have had the very same experience that you have had with Kenalog. I received a shot in late February of 08, shortly after I noticed severe bruising, which eventually turned into the atrophy I now have. I have taken pictures of it for the past several months...and now, 6 months later it is much worse...deeper and darker in color. Is anyone else having discoloration? Mine is a dark purple-red.
I AM PURSUING a lawsuit against the nurse that injected me because I was absolutely not warned of the side-effects...and now have had to suffer with this hole in my side.

It bothers me...and no one would understand unless this had happened to them I suppose. In addition, I received a second opinion and was told the atrophy was permanent...can anyone else confirm this?

I've also noticed other severe menstrual and emotional side-effects...this stuff can stay in your system for a long time.

I have been on Lipitor for over a year know after having a heart attack at 43 and having two stents put in. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia by in 2002. Recently, I have been having more arm, leg, back, pelvic, hip and hand pain then ever before. I am going to talk to my doctors now about the side effects. I have just know decided to start halving my Lipitor and may ween off of it completely. I'm on Niacin and Zieta in addition to the Lipitor. Have also been having a lot more digestive problems lately...am to be scheduled for a upper GI. I came here looking for info on the fact that although since being on Plavix (didn't realize Lipitor could be culprit) I have had bruising...today I found knots under two bruises on my upper arm. Not only are there knots but they (the bruises) are a different shade of blue (if that makes sense). Thanks to all who have shared their stories.

I have had all three of my Gardasil shots, starting in September 2007, November 2007 and then February 2008. I felt slightly ill after each one, came down with what felt like the flu but went away after a couple of days. My periods changed completely however. I'm 24 and have regular, monthly menstruation since I was 10, without a change in flow or length of the period. Since taking the vaccination, I had terrible cramps, delayed periods, and very heavy flow for the six months and a few months after that. Since then, my period has become very light and irregular and I have started growing abnormally dark facial hair as well increased hair growth overall (hirsutism). My skin has become very thin and breaks and bruises easily, and I have developed adult acne which I never had as a teenager. I don't have PCOS so I'm not sure if the two are linked, but nothing else has changed in my lifestyle over the past year so please do let me know if you have experienced anything similar.

Placed 6/19/08. Started period two weeks later. Daily period since. Now I am certain I am anemic. Extreme fatigue, weakness, bruises, nails chipping, hair falling out and I've lost 8 pounds. Also experiencing bizarre anxiety attacks - especially at night - almost panic with numbness in arm and tight chest.

I wish I could stick it out like some of you did but I am throwing in the towel. I will have it removed next week.

Information For The Recently Diagnosed
Possible Side Effects of Coumadin®

I found the following on a website dedicated to Factor V Leiden patients who need the warfarin/coumadin due to the genetic issues:
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Here are some of the side effects reported by members of our mailing list who are on Coumadin®:

Hair thinning-hair loss
fatigue or being tired more often
taking longer to recover from cuts or bruises
sun burn or sensitivity to light
depression.
You may experience some of these effects or none of them.

Also reported: Uneven INR's with generic coumadin®. I refuse to take generic coumadin® (warfarin). My INR will not stay stable on it. But some folks like it. It's a personal choice.

Possible side effects of LMWH:

Bleeding is the main adverse effect, either major (internal) or minor (injection site bruises, easy bruising, etc).
osteoporosis may be an issue with long-term use
very rarely an allergy develops, called HIT (heparin-induced thrombocytopenia)
liver tests (enzyme levels) may become temporarily elevated, but usually return to normal and rarely lead to the need to stop LMWH
last but not least: empty wallet syndrome (very expensive drugs)

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I took Levaquin for a kidney infection 500 mg. I was inchy all over. stomach pain. sever neck pain, and pain all over I feel like I was hit by a truck. no energy. my eyes get all heavy like I haven't slept in weeks. Alls I do is sleep and when I do I wake up very confused. I've been taking naps in the day time which I've never been able to do even if I was sick. I don't feel normal like I'm drunk and I don't even drink my sister says I even sound drunk. I get headaches. I have bruises all over in the places that I had itched. I still have kidney pain it feels like it's flopping around in there. Sweat a lot at night time. My heart sometimes beats really fast then thunks hard and then slows down. anxiety attacks. I cry for no reason. I called my doctor and he said he don't think it's from the levaquin that people only get a couple side effects not this many and put me back on antibiotics.

My 14-Year-old daughter has very large bruising on both legs after taking this med for three days. This bruising was NOT from any injury, as she was bed-ridden from her migraines.

I have been on Advair 250/50 off and on for a couple of years. When I take the dose I get a smothering feeling that last for about l5 minutes. I also have cramps in my legs and feet.. Another side effect I think is bruising very easily. If I barely touch something I get big red bruises. Does anyone else have the problem with bruising. Am going to try to get off Advair completely.

My 15 y.o. daughter has has first hand experience with weight gain on Advair. About 6 years ago at about 9 y.o., she gained 20 lbs in 6 months - and it started happening exactly when she started the drug. She was very active (swim team, gymnastics, etc) and did not overeat. It is very frustrating that both her pediatrician and her asthma/allergy specialist deny that her small dose of Advair is to blame.

For some reason, and I have talked to others that this has happened to, switching to Singulair did not help her with the weight problem. Seems the people who are hypersensitive to inhaled steroids are also sensitive to Singulair. Concerned about her rapid weight gain, and because she was always so thin, I took her to an endocrinologist to rule out any other problems. After a lot of bloodwork, he concluded that he could not rule out that it was a side effect of the Advair and/or Singulair, and that they may have elevated her blood sugar. I have read tons and tons of postings on the internet about children & adults rapidly gaining weight from inhaled corticosteroids (i.e. Flovent, Advair), along with the round face, bloated stomach, stretch marks, thin skin, easy bruising, etc. but nobody ever says what happens after stopping any of these drugs. Do people ever go back to normal? Do kids look like themselves again? Do any of the side effects disappear?

She is now 15 y.o. and cannot reverse her weight gain no matter what (30 lbs overweight). The last 2 years, she has only been on a small dose of Pulmicort (a different class of corticosteroid even safe to take when pregnant) since she has mild persistent asthma, and allergy shots have helped trememdously. My husband and I have been looking for 6 years now on how to avoid our daughter's weight gain with asthma drugs. If you run into any info., please let us know. Any experiences or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

My 6 year old has been taking Singulair for close to two years. She has become so emotional that I have been wondering what was wrong. She has been crying and getting upset over the slightest things. We had a pet die over 2 years ago and she still cries uncontrollably about him. She has wanted to stay home and not go to school, although she has a blast at school. She tends to get more bruises and scrapes. She has been restless during her sleep, tossing and turning. And now that the national networks are reporting this Singulair problem, I am realizing that her problems started after taking singulair. I am immediately taking her off of it. I don't know how long it will take for her to recover, if she will.

I am a 30 year old mother of three young boys, and my husband and I are pretty sure we are done having children, but not 100% positive, so we thought the Mirena IUD would be a great birth control option: no muss, no fuss, and it would allow us the time to make the decision later. I had mine inserted in April 2007. I bled for a few months on and off, had a seriously bloated stomach (that never went away), almost constant nausea, stomach pains both dull and sharp at times, and shooting leg pains. After I waited this all out, I thought the IUD was pretty OK. If someone would've asked me, I would've told them as much.

The past six-eight months have been much rougher. I had constant vaginal discharge that was an effort to get out of my underwear! How gross is that? Periods came more often than before the IUD, sometimes only 2 weeks apart, they were longer and PMS was constant and horrendous. I felt terrible about how mean-tempered I had become to my kids and husband. I used to be the calm, even-keeled one who could laugh at three crazy boys! Now my husband has been on a mission to get a vasectomy because life has become so stressful due to how I handle everything with them. I began to resent my own children, was not interested in spending time with them because they annoyed me to the point of rage. I was ready to sign him up for the vasectomy as well!

Listening to my instincts, I had the IUD removed on Friday. It did not hurt at all, was easier than a pap smear. Later that afternoon, for interest's sake, I googled IUD side effects, and have been unsure whether to jump up and down or cry ever since.

I look back at all the things I worried about over the last almost year, never realizing any of them could have anything to do with the IUD. I could tell my hair was thinner, so I put myself back on prenatal and all sorts of other vitamins, thinking I was deficient.

I couldn't figure out why I had fingerprint bruises all over the tops of my legs, so I worried about blood disorders until I researched that I had no other symptoms of those types of things. Then I just gave up trying to figure out what it was from.

I thought my horrible headaches (which I never had in my life) were caused by stress. I was at the chiropractor for the first time 3 weeks ago because I've had neck and back pain since last June that would not go away. I also had to take tylenol a lot for leg aches and weird pains in my limbs.

I thought the tiny hairs that started to pop up on my face might be related to the IUD, but I wondered how could that be? Mirena only gives localized hormones and they are not MALE hormones, right?

I researched strokes and aneurysms because many days I felt so enraged, so upset by the littlest things my kids would do, I felt like my head might literally pop off. I wanted to make sure that I couldn't bring something like that on from getting so worked up! My husband and I have been married almost 10 years and he has never before advised me to get on an anti-depressant until I had the IUD. That made me even more upset, because I knew he was right, but this just wasn't me!

My restlessness at night, lack of quality sleep, I didn't attribute it to the Mirena either. Even when I wanted to take a nap, I'd pop awake after 10 minutes, but still feel tired.

The craziest thing of all is that I had anxiety to the point of panic attacks. I was never afraid of flying on airplanes until I had the IUD. Last June I got on a small jet to take a weekend getaway with my husband and almost had to get off. The claustrophobic panic kept coming in waves. The whole weekend I couldn't relax because I knew I had to get back on that plane to go home and it was unbearable. Mentally, the trip home was absolute torture. I had two more flights on tiny planes to take last summer after that, and fretted constantly beforehand to the point my heart would race, my face would flush, and I would almost have a panic attack just thinking about it. I had to go see my GP and get Xanax to make it through those next two trips. She and I both agreed it was probably anxiety about leaving my kids and worrying subconsciously about what would happen to them if something happened to me.

Additionally, day to day worries and anxiety consumed me. I constantly worried about my own mortality, something horrible happening to my kids, something horrible happening to my husband, etc. I knew thinking negatively about that stuff was just not in my best interest, but I couldn't get those types of thoughts out of my head! My teeth ache all day because I have spent the better part of the last year grinding them in my sleep, something I've never done before. My heart did race at times and I found myself deep sighing a lot. Dizziness came and went sometimes as well.

That is why, when my OB asked why I wanted it out, I simply told her it was making me nuts. I didn't know until afterwards, what an awesome decision I had made based upon my intuition. I am so thankful to have found out all this stuff is a result of that thing, and that I can look forward to an eventual full return to my normal laid-back positive self once my hormones readjust.

Already I feel calmer, and tired, but in a good way (the way you feel when you have had a long day and can look forward to a hard sleep, not the crazy restless tired I've felt for so long). I just started my first period since removal, so we'll see how that goes. I'm sure it will take awhile for all my hormones to straighten around, considering how funky they had obviously become.

My husband is a wonderful man who never minded using condoms before, and so that will have to do it until we do something permanent some day. I'm sure he will be thrilled to wear one at this point, since we basically weren't having sex at all before (the thought disgusted me), so what was the point of having the IUD anyways? Yes, like everyone else, I had NO SEX DRIVE. And, during sex, I was SO dry (kind of ironic, since there was so much discharge the rest of the time!) It just wasn't enjoyable.

I am sure there are women out there who tolerate this thing with little or no side effects, but it sure seems like there are a lot who don't!! And what is terrible is that the doctors and the pamphlets all make it out to be so great and dismiss that these other freaky side effects are a result of the Mirena. Had I known that this was a possibility, I never would have thought twice about trying it, especially for the cost. I would advise anyone who asked me to stay as far away from it as possible.