Should I be worried?

[AndiGirl]

I am noticing some more strange symptoms, though my digestion has been better than it has been in a long time. Here are the new things that are unsettling.

Beth, my baby girl, is taking to pinching lately. I noticed that I have several bruises on my arms where she pinched me. Scott and I play around once in a while. He grabbed my arm when I was trying to escape. We were rough housing. He didn't grab me hard at all, but I have a couple more bruises on my arms. I am also waking up with bruised legs. I never used to bruise so easily. I don't have any strange clotting issues. Could it be CD related? Maybe I'm not absorbing certain vitamins and/or minerals. It's embarrassing because it looks as though I'm an abuse victim. I definitely am not, and don't want others to get that impression, including my parents. I do know several women who really are in abusive relationships and they make excuses. I don't want anyone to think that I'm in that situation.

The other issues are lip twitching and freckling. My lip twitched for about an hour yesterday. I tried moving it, to get it to stop. Weird! I have always had freckles, but they are becoming more noticeable, especially on my arms, of all weird places. I don't mind freckles, but why is this happening. Both my mom and dad are freckled, so my siblings and I all have them. I am more freckled than the others. I thought they were supposed to disappear more as you aged.

I am the most concerned about the bruising. The freckles just hurt my pride a bit.

 

[Grumbletum]

Have you had a change of meds? I'm covered in bruises since starting on the Pred.

 

[Welsh-bird]

I was going to ask simular to Grumbletum Andi- are you still on the Entocort?
I had simular probs on pred, just woke up with bruises all ove my thighs, nowhere else! Saw my gp and he put it down to pred?!
Sorry, can't help with the freckles- come summer I morph into one large walking one!!

 

[Crohn's Mom]

I think similar to them...the lovely pred/entocort !

I am more concerned with your concern for the freckles! Freckles are beauty marks and you get to have extra to show the world your true inner beauty !! :rosette2::rosette2:
Hold your head high and walk proud!

My youngest is the only one of us to have freckles and I just love them :thumleft:

 

[littlemissh]

Another vote for the entocort here...

 

[AndiGirl]

Thank you all! I never thought of the Prednisone or Entocort, but those are probably what is causing the bruising. I tapered off the Entocort not too long ago. I also have a tough case of asthma. Guess what! If I flare-up with the asthma, my doctor puts me on Prednisone. I know that's why the CD has been relatively quiet lately. I never noticed that side effect before, though maybe I just didn't notice. I've got some ugly bruises on my arms and legs.

Tracy, that was a very sweet comment about the freckles. I have mixed feelings about them. I don't think they are ugly, but I sometimes wish that I had a peaches and cream complexion minus the sprinkles of cinnamon. LOL!