ChocolateButton
21-02-18, 15:31
Can someone please reassure me about something that won't stop bugging me? :unsure:
Since having a cannula (?) in my hand on Friday/Saturday I've developed a very sore, bruised arm. There is a lump on the back of my hand where the needle was in, and the vein just next to this is very prominent and hard to the touch, so much so that I can sort of 'roll' it under my fingers.
Also I have a very sore bruised feeling further up my arm, just about at the crook of my elbow, on the inside, and again if I touch the sore bit I can feel the vein which also is hardened and feels solid / tight.
When I was at the GP yesterday I did ask her (cos it hurt when she took my blood pressure) and she said the vein was hardened from having the cannula in but she didn't look very closely at it.
Today though, the bruising has spread such that most of my forearm now hurts, and I can see a line of green bruising along the middle of my forearm (between the sore spot at my elbow and the sore spot on my hand) not yet connecting the two areas, but heading that way.
I know the GP wasn't concerned but lying here in the house on my own, with the bruising getting worse, is just fuelling my fears about blood clots (I'm wearing compression sock things that the hospital put on but I was told you can get clots in your arms too).
If anyone else has ever had this hardened vein thingy after a cannula I'd love to hear from you, just to put my mind at rest that this is a somewhat normal occurrence.
(I didn't post this in my de-realisation thread as it isn't related to that so I thought it best in a new thread - hope that's the right thing to do).
Since having a cannula (?) in my hand on Friday/Saturday I've developed a very sore, bruised arm. There is a lump on the back of my hand where the needle was in, and the vein just next to this is very prominent and hard to the touch, so much so that I can sort of 'roll' it under my fingers.
Also I have a very sore bruised feeling further up my arm, just about at the crook of my elbow, on the inside, and again if I touch the sore bit I can feel the vein which also is hardened and feels solid / tight.
When I was at the GP yesterday I did ask her (cos it hurt when she took my blood pressure) and she said the vein was hardened from having the cannula in but she didn't look very closely at it.
Today though, the bruising has spread such that most of my forearm now hurts, and I can see a line of green bruising along the middle of my forearm (between the sore spot at my elbow and the sore spot on my hand) not yet connecting the two areas, but heading that way.
I know the GP wasn't concerned but lying here in the house on my own, with the bruising getting worse, is just fuelling my fears about blood clots (I'm wearing compression sock things that the hospital put on but I was told you can get clots in your arms too).
If anyone else has ever had this hardened vein thingy after a cannula I'd love to hear from you, just to put my mind at rest that this is a somewhat normal occurrence.
(I didn't post this in my de-realisation thread as it isn't related to that so I thought it best in a new thread - hope that's the right thing to do).