As a kid, I bruised all the time, very easily. Nowadays, I don’t bruise at all, with some exceptions.
I broke my toe about a week ago, as in literally snapped the bone in half and ended up with one piece almost a centimeter out of alignment. And yet, no bruise. Not even the slightest sign of one.
Now, the exception is if I’ve been drinking. I broke that same toe 2 years ago while I was drunk and it basically turned black.

I don’t know why I would bruise normally when drinking, but never bruise at all when sober. Is it possible I am bruising and it’s just not visible for whatever reason?

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    10 months ago

    I’m about to be one of the aforementioned. Almost done with the clinical rotation part. You guys are kinda on point, but those effects are minimal. We’d have a lot of leaky drunks on the streets if so.

    When you’re drunk you’re much more likely to have hit yourself harder and sloppier than initially thought. More damage might result in a messy wound vs an anticipated accident.

    OP has a good reaction time and nice and stretchy arteries

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      It’s nice to know my arteries are good considering my doctors hate my veins. Getting blood drawn often takes 3 or 4 attempts and when I need an IV they break out the ultrasound.

      And the drunk bit does make sense. When I broke my toe while drunk, I didn’t even know it was broken and just kept walking on it, so maybe that’s why it bruised when I normally don’t.

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        10 months ago

        Hahahahaha that is a super pertinent piece of information right there. You kept walking on a broken bone. Owowowowow. I hope everything is all good now!

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          It was good until I broke the same toe the same way again. I’ll never break any other bones, just that toe over and over again. Luckily there’s been basically no pain this time since I’ve actually been treating it properly and staying off it.