Those last two "and"s are killing me
I have, very consistently throughout my entire life, had bad nosebleeds that were reluctant to stop.
I also used to have a solid white (plus some yellow spots) dog who would sometimes sit next to my bed and stare at me from inches away until I woke up to a ghostly face almost pressed to my own. When he woke me up, his expression would often resemble that of Alexander from FMA. Thus spake he his desire to go outside.
The most recent time I had one of those nosebleeds, I passed out either three or four times (I don’t remember, for some reason my brain was a bit foggy at the time) from blood loss. The doctors told me that a healthy human male has sixteen units of blood and that I had twelve when I got to them.
The point I’m trying to make is that I can very much relate to both sides of this post.
Low clotting factor is a MF
I always hear terrifying stories that like this ends up being aorta dissection and they learn that they have vascular EDS and almost die.
I had a period of childhood where I got terrible nose bleeds. One time I bleed so much is covered my arm entirely. Another time it kept going for like an hour and my pulse hit 165. I was at camp so the medical staff had a pulse monitor. They didn’t like that but it eventually stopped.
Then one day I just grew out of it and it hasn’t happened again
I had terrible nosebleeds as a child and they gradually tapered off. I don’t think I’ve had a non traumatic nosebleed since my early 20s. No dissection here knock on wood I also used to work nights in the emergency department and nosebleeds in children are somewhat common and very rarely anything to be concerned with unless the bleeding lasts for hours without stopping even with pressure and ice or if the child is visibly anemic on presentation. So there’s a more positive anecdote to add to your nosebleed story collection.
crying… laughing…?
because I am
