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Old Wed Oct 25, 2017, 04:12 PM
Neil Cuadra Neil Cuadra is offline
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Two health care professionals have told me different things about what causes them. One person told me that they are caused by prednisone making the skin thin. Another person told me they are caused by low platelets.
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I suspect that both answers are correct. My reasoning is that low platelets make blood clotting inefficient, so when your arm gets bumped more blood can pool there until it heals underneath the skin. Meanwhile, thin skin might make you bruise more easily (less protection), and thin skin definitely makes the blood inside your arm more visible from the outside.
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