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Blood & Blood Vessel (Vascular) Disorders

The basic types of blood vessels are arteries, veins, capillaries and lymphatics. Their main goal is to keep blood flowing to all of your vital organs. Here, you can discuss topics related to blood disorders (anemia, blood cholesterol, hemochromatosis, hemophilia, polycythemia vera, sepsis, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, thrombosis) and blood vessel disorders (arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, aneurysm, vasculitis, venous thrombosis, varicose veins, lymphedema).

Deep vein thrombosis

I'm 55 year old man and recently I bump on one problem, so I hope someone could help me with some useful advice. I have one big passion and that is walking. I know it sound a bit funny bit as you see, I'm not young any more and walking and sightseeing is only that keeps me amused these days. Just...

by User avatar bette1052

Morning post breakfast (2hr) glucose reading is always high

I need some advice as to what is going on. I'm a Type 2 Diabetic and have been closely monitoring my blood glucose levels recently. I have noticed a pattern that I cannot explain. I wake up daily with my levels pretty consistent from night before. After breakfast -2hr my readings always climb high...

by User avatar Guest

Low white blood cell count and anemia

my daughter is 18 and had a skin infection, diagnosed as staff. she was given antibiotics and few days later got a bad yeast infection. Then she started having a fever that would not go down much with ibuprofen and tylenol. At the ER she here heart rate was elavated and she was given an iv. The...

by User avatar Mereja

blood pressure and heart disease

Answered by a doctor

Hi, I am a fifty three years old woman. All my life I was suffering from low blood pressure. However, on my last regular check up my doctor said that he is worried because it seems that my blood pressure is unusually high. I was surprised because I didn't have any symptoms. Another thing the doctor...

by User avatar Guest

PAH went fom 25 mmHg to 88 mm Hg in 9 months!

Hello. My Dad is 62 and has been diagnosed with Interstitual Lung Disease. He doesn't have a classic case. He was tested back in August of 2008 and had a PAH of 25 mm Hg. He was told to use Oxygen, but he confesses he didn't feel he needed it / rather just didn't want to wear it. They re-tested...

by User avatar IndyDad113199

echiness after travel

i just came from a hard trip in eourpe my body echie all over and then im having very strong headache i realise when im home its a high blood presure 190-95 and i think im having herpis **edited by moderator**

by User avatar madani

Bruising shins

Answered by a doctor

Hi. I am a guy who is 14 years old. I noticed that I really tend to bruise, and sometimes with no reason. On shins, mostly. I just don't know why. And I don't remember bruising them. Could this be a sign of poor circulation? An that is not a first time. I always get bruises, but they all pass really...

by User avatar mendy25366

bloodtype

When I was ill, I had to make some tests, where blood test was included too. I accidentally read it and I saw my blood is type A. Since I have never heard for that during my 50 years of life, I want to know difference. Isn’t blood the same with everyone? I would like to learn how doctors made...

by User avatar Guest

Does a broken blood vessel in the neck effect the eye?

I am ill, and everything aches. Yesterday morning i woke up and stretched and my neck like strained or something and i couldnt move it and it hurt pretty badly and now it feels bruised on the right side of my neck, (from the middle of my neck to the beginning of my shoulder), and now my right eye...

by User avatar Guest

polycythemia ruba vera

Hi, my mother is effected by polycytemia ruba vera, and all informatins we get about the disease and treatment seems to be contradictory, except that it is malignant. What is polycytemia ruba vera like?

by User avatar Guest