Hubby gets random nosebleeds on occasion. An ice compress applied to the nose usually stops 'em fairly quickly.
So can leukemia!
(I don’t think you have leukemia)
Fun fact, for about three years, when I was about your age in fact, I used to get the hiccups EVERYDAY. At least one episode. Then as mysteriously as it started it stopped. Now I only hiccup every couple of months.
If you’re sick of them and you can identify the side they start on most frequently, you can visit an ENT who will cauterize the surface blood vessels in ~10 minutes. It stings a little and is uncomfortable for about 3 days, and then you’re all set.
I used to get nosebleeds if
- I took a flight anywhere
- The weather changed
- I sneezed too hard
- I had more than one serving of caffeine in a day
- The day’s relative humidity was a prime number
- Anyone with three siblings looked at me funny
…
and for no reason at all.
I went in to the ENT for an earache and while we discussed my ear problems, he was doing a checkup. He stopped me to ask about the blood vessel he saw in my nose, and then while we discussed the earache, he fixed the nosebleeds. So far it’s been two years without a recurrence.
It’s been many years since I had a nosebleed. I think even then it was physically induced (stickin’ a finger up there) though they’re usually random and from non-obvious causes. I used to get them more often as a kid than I do now.
I get them when I have a bad cold and I’m blowing my nose all the time…but they’re quite mild and usually just a gentle pinch will stop them.
I used to get gushers as a kid. I don’t know why. My mother always said to “tilt your head back” so I did…swallowing blood and grossing myself out.
Then I read somewhere that you should tilt your head a bit forward, not backwards.
I need to ask my mother why she said to do that. It’s patently unecessary.
I get them in the winter when the air is dry. I have low blood pressure (80/50 is not uncommon).
The vaseline helps a lot. So does a spray of saline solution now and then. Just get some moisture up in there.
Real men use Quaker State.
I had fairly frequent nosebleeds when I was a kid (among other things, I picked my nose a lot). Then I didn’t get any for years and years. Nowadays, I get one every couple of weeks in the wintertime, I suppose because of the dry air.
Or latex caulk.
I don’t normally get nosebleeds. The first two times I ever went up north, my nose just started bleeding. Both times in the same place; right after I crossed over the Delaware Memorial Bridge and entered New Jersey. I’ve been over that bridge, and indeed up past the Mason-Dixon line a fair number of times, and I haven’t had a nosebleed since. Maybe DuPont was cooking up something particularly noxious those two times, but :eek: !
That brings in the possibility of allergies. One good glob of axle grease should last all winter (Canadians may need 2 globs per winter, especially if Spring and Summer fall on the same day that year).