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).

Bleeding Black Blood

My mother is 94 years old. She was bathing and was washing her legs and feet, and because her skin is to thin, she started bleeding black blood. Her legs do have like dark spots on them and her feet. Is this lack of oxygen in her body? Why is it black. I finally got her leg to quit bleeding after...

by V Mott over a year ago

Bruising, headaches and fainting! Whats wrong with me?

Answered by a doctor

I am a 23 year old mother of two. I have been experiencing a few problems over the past 2 years that are making my everyday tasks difficult. I bruise with ease, and in the past yr. have fainted 3 times in public! ( how humiliating ) I get terrible headaches everyday around 5:30 in the evening and I...

by alleriamage35106997 over a year ago

Headaches, fatigue, hypoglycemia?, sugar-free diet

Answered by a doctor

hi everybody! i am 17 years old and get headaches every day! i often feel tired and have recently been very sick! i used to collapse at school and would spend most of my time in bed. i was losing a kg per week and no doctor could work out what was wrong with me. i wasn't hungry and food would make...

by angelicnessa94674 over a year ago

accuracy of MRAngiography vs CTAngiography

I am faced with the advisability of having an angiography. The CTA will require contrast dye for which I need to be medicinally prepared since I've had an anaphylactic shock response to previous dye. I wonder whether it would be just as accurate to have an MRA which would not require this...

by cilinko over a year ago

Aortic arch interruption and potential post-op complications?

Are there any people here who have first hand experience with operations for aortic arch interruption? I would like to hear more about the possible post op complications and what to expect afterwards, as our daughter was born with aortic arch interruption and opinions are very much divided on...

by prince568172510 over a year ago

Suffereing from psedomonus infection

I am suffereing from psedomonus infection in UT and consistenly getting count of 100000 CFU/ml. I had gone through open surgory in Sept 2004 to remove the staghorn calculi of 4cm x 1.5 cm size at right kidney. Now the infection has damaged my right testicle forming abscess and pus. Eventhough I have...

by Anant Palkar68316 over a year ago

Suddenly very visible veins all over, mostly on my chest and legs

I'm a 20 year old girl and last year, my veins just became extremely visible all over my body. Before then, you couldn't even find my veins. I had to get blood drawn a couple years ago and the doctor had to try 9 times before she found a vein. Now, you can very clearly see them, especially on my...

by Guest over a year ago

costeocondritis in chest

Does anyone else have this I do and I keep getting it does it ever go away

by ronald1957 over a year ago

Blood Type Undetected

My sister is 7 months pregnant and every time she has had a blood test since the start of her pregnancy, they have not been able to tell what her blood type is! We already know that she is type O, but apparently they haven't been able to pick that up on her blood samples. I've searched the internet...

by boujjha over a year ago