# Bruising and MS **URL:** \ **Category:** Everyday living\ **Created:** [24 July 2017 13:32 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/bruising-and-ms/11213 "2017-07-24T13:32:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roarylion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@Roarylion](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Roarylion)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2017 13:32 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/bruising-and-ms/11213/1 "2017-07-24T13:32:55Z")
Hi all, I have heard about the link between MS and bruising many times, but of course when I try and look for it I can’t find anything! I have had MS for 15 years and am blessedly only mildly affected and don’t take any meds (so no blood thinning side effects) but I bruise very easily, like a peach! Can anyone shed any light on the relationship between MS and bruising please, and although I sometimes walk into things, that wouldn’t account for it all! Cheers, Roary 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chocorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/41988e/32.png) [@chocorange](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/chocorange)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2017 13:55 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/bruising-and-ms/11213/2 "2017-07-24T13:55:37Z")
hiya i dunno about any link but i do know that i am covered in them! unexplained i may add. even got a purple knuckle currently as well as the usual arm/legs. will be watching replies with interest! ellie ---
**Author:** ![Roarylion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@Roarylion](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Roarylion)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2017 13:58 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/bruising-and-ms/11213/3 "2017-07-24T13:58:30Z")
A fellow peach 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ssssue](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/mssociety/user_avatar/forum.mssociety.org.uk/ssssue/32/4182_2.png) [@Ssssue](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Ssssue)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2017 14:11 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/bruising-and-ms/11213/4 "2017-07-24T14:11:01Z")
I only bruise easily because I’m so clumsy. Even in a wheelchair. I’m constantly swearing as I go round the house bumping into doorways, dragging my knuckles along a wall, hurtling into cupboard doors and bashing my knees, not to mention running over my own feet. I say I’m a peach, but actually I’m just a clumsy oaf. Sue ---
**Author:** ![Fracastorius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Fracastorius](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Fracastorius)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2017 18:59 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/bruising-and-ms/11213/5 "2017-07-24T18:59:30Z")
Yeah, I put it down to me being a clumsy clot and walking into things more than usual…corners of desks, door frames etc. I do keep finding bruises that I don’t remember doing anything to cause… oh well, shrug, another bruise…I wonder what caused that one then? ---
**Author:** ![Dollydaydream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@Dollydaydream](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Dollydaydream)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2017 19:17 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/bruising-and-ms/11213/6 "2017-07-24T19:17:19Z")
Hi all, Yep I bruise like an apple, last year I had an accident, yet again, and smashed my face in, after having a fight with an iron railing! 24 hours after I looked like I’d gone 10 rounds with with a heavy weight boxer. My left arm was black from above the wrist to below the shoulder and I had two enormous black eyes. The facial bruising was so bad it would have scared children. I looked in the mirror and thought “this won’t fade for 5 or 6 weeks” and blathered all the bruises in arnica, I continued to do this 3 times a day until the bruising had gone, what was amazing was all of the bruising had gone in 10 days! I have continued to wonder if the combination of vitamin d and arnica healed the bruising far quicker than I had I used nothing, The vitamin d is Colecalciferol, prescription only vitamin d prescribed by my GP after my neuro said I should be prescribed this. But do try Arnica, it might have been just this alone. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Sarah\_smith](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Sarah_smith)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2017 19:50 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/bruising-and-ms/11213/7 "2017-07-24T19:50:53Z")
Lol, always have bruises, but, also always walking into things. Oh & forgetting ! Most people would notice walking into something, for me it’s a Opps, tets pretend that didn’t happen. A year ago if I walked into a wall, corner or door I would have laughed about it all day ! Now, it’s a normal part of life which I gloss over ! ---
**Author:** ![Tilly\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@Tilly\_2](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Tilly_2)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2017 20:19 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/bruising-and-ms/11213/8 "2017-07-24T20:19:13Z")
I bruise so easily. The weird thing is they stain… yes stain. Months after after a bruise has gone I see the shape under my skin. Only In a certain light, but it’s there. ---
**Author:** ![Roarylion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@Roarylion](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Roarylion)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2017 20:46 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/bruising-and-ms/11213/9 "2017-07-24T20:46:16Z")
Sarah, you are not alone in this! I find that people who don’t know me well say things like ‘oooooo, mind yourself’ or ‘careful’ which I find really annoying. I just blame objects for trying to trip me up or moving if anyone notices! But I have heard from more than one person about genuinely spontaneous bruising related to MS. Or did I just imagine it again…! And Tilly, I have that sometimes too and I now exactly what you mean. Roary, 🙂