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[charon47]

Does anyone know anything you can take to increase the strength of your blood vessel walls? Vitamins or such?

Weird question, I know. Mine have been breaking when I exercise for a while but, if the size of resulting bruises is anything to go by, there are more or bigger vessels are breaking.

Comments

[karaden]

...that sounds like something you should be mentioning to your doctor, not taking vitamins for :S

[charon47]

I did. She told me I had 'fragile veins' and it was left at that. :-/

[meeshy]

Gotta love the NHS...

[masterofwalri]

Mmmmm, I know that feeling. Since going veggie, I bruise like a peach on a hot day.

[charon47]

Do you get it from exercising?????

I'm checking my legs right now and I've got one bigger than my fist under my knee and eight small ones over my feet. :/

[masterofwalri]

Well nowadays, most exercise I get is cycling, or Wing Chun.

As you can imagine, it's a little difficult to tell whether bruises come just from exercise, or from being beaten up twice a week ;)

But that doesn't sound good... Second opinion time?

[charon47]

Yes, I can see why that would be a problem! Weird that you've been bruising more since becoming veggie. I've been thinking about it and the only thing I can think of is the decrease in your iron intake?

Guess so...

[jo47]

I would definitely try mentioning that to your doctor again...worth at least checking your platelets. See if you can persuade him to do a blood test! (though you may not want to be begging for a blood test!)

[charon47]

Okay Jo, I'll give it a mention. Thanks for the advice. :)