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[razorjak]

Okay, seems I lost about a pint of blood over the last day or so. That's the only way I can explain why I have been so sick. After I got back to Buffalo I woke up four times having to go stuff TP up my nose due to having a free flowing bloody nose. A lot of that drained down into my stomach.

Not being a vampire, I was ill due to all the blood in my stomach.

Still don't know why I started bleeding out when I puked yesterday though.

(- I'm not biologically related to my sister. There's no way I can have VW. -)

Comments

[ravenhart.livejournal.com]

OH! How AWFUL!

Get better. Soon.

[lovegoth.livejournal.com]

Hope everything gets better real soon, sorry your so sick.:-(

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

How's your blood pressure?

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

My blood pressure is a tad high. Has been for awhile now.

[ain9el.livejournal.com]

maybe it's from the change of where you were to buffalo. i've heard of that happening. the weather, altitude and what not and then changing it to something completely different. however i cant remember if it's for as long as you've had it

[sola.livejournal.com]

dude, put some ice on your face and go to the ER if it won't stop. that sounds seriously uncool. you'll probably need a neti pot after all this, i'm thinking

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Oh it stopped wednesday morning ( the nosebleed at least ) until I retched and started bleeding again.

Feeling a bit better now ... just a tad woosy.

[masokisst.livejournal.com]

one bursted blood vessel is all it takes

I didnt know your sister had VW... factor 5, I have factor 8. They are closely related but mine is far less serious.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's one of the big three she is dealing with ...
Grave's disease ( which was diagnosed while she was pregnant )
Von Will ....
and a condition that aggrivates VW and visa versa ( they make each other worse ) sometime like dense granular platelets or something like that. I don't know what she called it.

[prgrmr.livejournal.com]

I was a cronic nosebleeder as a kid, up through highschool. My mom took me to the ER one day after I had a nosebleed that was going on 12 hours and wouldn't stop. The doc who saw me was the first to tell me how to stop a nosebleed in under 5 minutes: put some vaseline or KY on a cotton ball and pack it in you nose. If both sides are bleeding, obviously use two. Then hold your index finger flat against your upper lip and apply pressure.

Evidentally the artery that supplies blood to nose runs across the upper lip. So compress that with the packing in place and hold about 5 minutes. Go 10 if you want to be sure. Then slowly remove the cotton and *gently* blow out the clots (otherwise you'll eventually swallow them).

HTH, and drink a lot of water if you've lost that much fluid!