#83250 10-31-2008 06:39 AM | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 61 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 61 | Hi Everyone,
I can't believe it has been 8 months since Mary finished her chemo and radiation-time flies. She is doing really well, eating is still slow but she is working on it. Over the past several weeks she has noticed that she is bruising fairly easily, sometimes with no known injury. Some of these bruises are fairly large, especially on her legs. She has started exercising (step aerobics) again on a regular basis. She is seeing the docs in Boston next week and plans on discussing it with them, but I was just curious if anyone else encountered this such a long time after their treatment ended?
Anemia or low platelets cross my mind, but she is not fatigued.
I stressed that it is important for her to mention this next week. Hopefully it is nothing.
Liz
CG to friend Mary. SCC Stage IV-A of rt. tonsil, mets. to lymph node on rt. DX 06/07,tonsillectomy 08/07, Chemo Cisplatin, Taxotere and 5FU X3 cycles; RAD completed 1/20/08 RND scheduled for 3/08. 54yr.old, NS, social drinker.
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Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 531 | Hi Liz
I am not sure on the larger bruising my daughter easily bruises and since my surgery I am diabetic and it seems everywhere I have injected myself I bruised. My nurses commented that it could be related to taking meds for swelling anything that makes the blood flow faster and not being a doctor...if she is starting up aerobics could cause the muscles which haven't been used for a long time to bruise by themselves. This however is just my observation and opinion and I concur that it should be discussed with her doctor...
Dianne
Dianne..treatment at cc at Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario...insulin dependant, Surgery Sept 8/08 Tracheotomy,composite resection and bilateral neck dissection, left radial forearm free flap... T2N0 squamous cell carcinoma. No radiation A little over 2 yrs clear YAY
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Hi Liz:
Bruising is something I thought was a 'just me' type thing. I have awful purple bruises all over my legs and have no idea what caused them. It really could have soemthing to do with the blood levels. I do know it can take a very very long time for those to get back to normal numbers. At my 1 year mark, I still wasnt even close to where I had been pre-cancer. Im sure there are medical reasons why some people bruise more easily than others.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | | | | | Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 507 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 507 | Aspirin causes me to bruise. For some reason a couple years ago my PCP put me on a baby aspirin a day and I was always bruised.
Once I got cancer they stopped the baby aspirin and now I have no bruises.
I preferred it the other way (aspirin bruises and no cancer)!
Don
TXN2bM0 Stage IVa SCC-Occult Primary
FNA 6/6/08-SCC in node<2cm
PET/CT 6/19/08-SCC in 2nd node<1cm
HiRes CT 6/21/08
Exploratory,Tonsillectomy(benign),Right SND 6/23/08
PEG 7/3/08-11/6/08
35 TomoTherapy 7/16/08-9/04/08 No Chemo
Clear PET/CT 11/15/08, 5/15/09, 5/28/10, 7/8/11
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