POLL - bruising and/or prior sickness | Arthritis Information

 

Hillhoney and Cah got me thinking so I thought I'd run a poll.  Just place your answers to the following questions in the reply box to play along. 

Pip!2008-07-27 15:00:36Bruise when there is just cause before & after Bruised before and after RA.  Very rarely was sick before Ra and very rarely sick now...always have bruised, now it seems to be more sensitive. Bruised before and after, sick a couple times a year but I have 2 small children who bring home a lot of stuff and I don't catch most of it. Never bruised before RA, but bruise very easily now.  Looks like I fell off a train! 
Was rarely sick before RA, except for a hysterectomy and gallbladder removal.
GG2008-07-27 16:19:23Don't forget - aspirin and NSAIDs increase the tendency to bruise. Don't forget the fish oil and some other alternative therapies you are using that can make you more prone to bruising. I am covering with bruising, most of my life.  The slightest touch bruises me.

Bruiser- Never before or after.  ( I am also very fair skinned and light haired like snow owl, another reason I find this odd)

Sickly- No- only sinus infections and I rarely get those anymore. That is really the only thing I can think of. I have never had strep or ear infections or any of that stuff that goes around with little kids. Besides the RA I was a healthy child and now I don't get sick and I am a teacher. 

I have always bruised easily.
I wasn't as sick before I had RA. seems after I have had more health issues colds, flu, everything under the sun.

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Bruise easily before and after RA

not a bruiser before or after

never sick before or after and that includes all the years I've been on the heavy hitters-I've been on all of the biologics

I was always sickly as a kid, and still to this day tend to get the latest and greatest viruses.

never a bruiser before or after

I'm not an easy bruiser but when I get one, it tends to stay forever. I played women's rugby in college and I was never covered in bruises, but the ones I had were good ones.

I haven't ever been really sick. I teach middle school and I am around things all the time so I have become immune to alot of things going around. I was sick alot the first year of teaching but that is a rite of passage. Once you catch their viruses, you won't get them again.I am not a teacher, but during the school year I am at our school quite a bit.  Also, where I work, we share workstations out in the hardware lab when we're doing system testing.  It's not uncommon to be crawling around on the floor hooking something up one minute, to using the keyboard/mouse the next minute.  Not to mention the fact that our company doesn't understand the value of kleenex, so people just tend to sneeze into their hands and keep on typing.  I try to keep kleenex around, but it tends to disappear rapidly.  The snotty people like me tend to always keep kleenex in our cells (oops! I mean cubicles) but the I-never-get-sick types end up grabbing whatever kleenex they can find when they come down with the sniffles at work. Not a bruiser before or after. What part of Illinois?  I'm up in the Chicago suburbs. Always a bruiser.  Used to always get strep throat, since RA I really don't get sick.  *hope I'm not jinxing myself*   Bruising is a lot worse since all the meds.....And perhaps I'm more aware of germs now, I use wipes to wipe down shared phone/computer keyboard/fax at work when I have to use it, etc.  Some coworkers think I'm just paranoid, but I don't get sick and they do!