a bruise that will not heal?

[Oso]

Hey, I resemble that remark...

me too...so, get in line and wait yer turn

[IronFist]

the bruise is under my left eye starting at the bone under the eye which also has a small scar and going up to the eye. Also some bruising under the other eye. I think its possible a small fracture on the bone and a break deep in the base of the nose. It took two weeks for the swelling to go down and for me to stop spittin up blood and has been healing slowly since.

Also I got in a street fight by myself vs eight people last month and got a couple of smaller bruises on my forearms and the side of my face and skull all of which healed normally.

The dit da and acupuncture sound like good ideas as far as running off to the docter every time I get punched in the head... well lets just say I'm gonna save that untill I lose an eye or get my arm broke in three places.

You know, a real injury

Sounds like there's a story attached to that. What happened?

[sideslider]

Yeah, me too. I always like to start treatment before a diagnosis.

ya and an acupuncturist would never do a diagnosis!

[KC Elbows]

If you have a break, it wouldn't be unheard of to have a bruise for a long time, especially if it's in an area that often gets messed with.

[Mr Punch]

ya and an acupuncturist would never do a diagnosis!

I was talking about you diagnosing his problem over the internet.

But it's OK, it seems that hiddenmantis is daft as a brush, and there ain't no cure for that...

The dit da and acupuncture sound like good ideas as far as running off to the docter every time I get punched in the head... well lets just say I'm gonna save that untill I lose an eye or get my arm broke in three places.

You know, a real injury

He seems to think he's hard if he ignores non-recovering blunt trauma to the head, and that it's less dangerous or worthy of a doctor than breaking his arm.

[Oso]

@ Mr. P

[GreenCloudCLF]

Sounds like there's a story attached to that. What happened?

He had an arm chopped off. But he rubbed Dit Da on it and had needles stuck in him, so he is OK now.

[hiddenmantis]

A wise man will speak little and say much
A fool will speak constantly and say nothing



I feel this thread has moved off topic and will post a similar thread soon in the TCM section. Hopefully I can clarify a few things (like the difference between non recovering and recovering slowly).

Also I should add that soon after the injury I saw one of my teachers who is a professional in health care. After he got done laughing at me for letting myself get hit he told me what I should do. He said

"Next time ... block"

[Mr Punch]

A wise man will speak little and say much
A fool will speak constantly and say nothing

Some fools are pretty quiet too!

I feel this thread has moved off topic...

Welcome to KFM!

Also I should add that soon after the injury I saw one of my teachers who is a professional in health care. After he got done laughing at me for letting myself get hit he told me what I should do. He said

"Next time ... block"

I take it he's Chinese? You see, 'Western' medicine is the same! I had a detrimental enzyme in my liver which is cause by physical damage to your body (like hard exercise or being punched). The quack asked my hobbies and I told
him, and asked him was there anything I could do to prevent this enzyme level rising: he said, 'Get better - don't get punched!'

[Drake]

I'd qualify potential cancer as a real injury.

Seriously... a bruise that hasn't healed in MONTHS is a bit beyond the simple physical injury that you seemed determined to paint it as. Whilst you sit around making light of a bruise it could be a malignant tumor eating away at you without you knowing.

To assume that simple physical injury is the only qualifying reason to visit a doctor is naive... at best.

[IronFist]

I had a detrimental enzyme in my liver which is cause by physical damage to your body (like hard exercise or being punched).

In for more info about this. What caused it? What is it called? How did you treat it?

[Mr Punch]

GPT, or ALT...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanine_transaminase

It's not a problem on its own I was told, and there's nothing that can be done about it, although gluten-free diet will lower it, it's a symptomatic treatment rather than a causal one. The ratios of GPT, GOT and ALP are apparently important, but I don't know anything about it really.

[BoulderDawg]

Maybe it alien DNA or something showing up on the skin after he was taken into the mothership and probed!

[No_Know]

hiddenmantis, a bruise from the bone under the eye-up that doesn't heal in four months.

Having multiple injuries divides the body resources I might think. Damage to bone takes more effort than damaged muscle I might think. This all might contribute to the lack of noticeable healing for this long.

To help the healing I might reccomend gently brushing over and around the area with fingertips--index and middle or eone finger such as your pinkey. There is two methods here--moving skin; polishing bone

Moving Skin: your touch leaves the skin inplace except for sometimes when the skin moves with the finger as by greater pressure or friction relating to moisture or evaporation one might suppose...You'll gently brush the skin under your or at your bruised eye.

Polishing Bone: pressing the skin and all between skin and bone rub or polic the affeted or suspected affected bone, what you can reach and slightly passed.

My thinking relates to the bodycleaning itself with blood flow. The outsides of a bruise are brushed-away. Massage the bruise (gently because this might be hard to take for some depending on how hard-ish) to break the bruise or dried blood under the skin or at skin levels. Broken bruises have greater surface areas~--An apple only browns where the meat meets the air. Split the apple and that exposed white will brown. Similarly, I am thinking spread the concentration thereby weakening the concentration of the bruise.

Spreading the bruise might allow your body's damage cleaners to clean faster or make the cleaning more apparant.

No_Know

[No_Know]

How is your bruise? How are you?

No_Know