General Medical Question - Urgent - Panicking *ED-purging trigger*

30-07-2007, 08:49 AM

Hi,

I'm really sorry to bother everyone but I'm having a wee panic. I was trying to purge, and instead of puke blood came out, I'm wondering if a nail scratched my mouth. I only go through phrases of purging, and I noticed my reflux thing is bad, the other day I threw up laughing, but right now I'm realyl freaking out. Could I have just scratched my throat with me nail?

We used to have blood colour warnings thing, could someone send it to me? Or just general information about purging blood.

Sorry, thanks

~XxxFireflyxxX~ · 30-07-2007, 09:34 AM

Hi Sweetheart, this must have been really scary for you *cuddles*. As far as I can remember:

Bright red, is okish and is more likely to be a scratch

Dark red, is bad news and you should get help asap as it could be the sign of an internal bleed.

Please get checked over by your doctor just to be on the safe side though hunni, especially if there was a lot of blood there,

Sophie
Xxxx

30-07-2007, 09:52 AM

Thank you, thank you so much for replying so quickly, I go back to my unit tonight and I'll tell them then.

Thank you so much.

~XxxFireflyxxX~ · 30-07-2007, 10:02 AM

Not a problem, hope it helped.

*big hugs*

Sophie
Xxxx

Aidee · 30-07-2007, 10:24 AM

How much blood are you talking about?

If there were just traces of bright red blood, then it could be a small injury/issue, large amounts of bright red blood, or any amount of dark red blood need to be checked out by a doctor immediately.

Blood can be caused from scratches to your mouth, bleeding gums, esophageal tears, stomach tears, and stomach ulcers just to name a few things.

30-07-2007, 11:15 AM

Erm like, it wasn't like a trace, it was all over my hand, well no it wasn't that much, I mean like, I think it was a scratch, It was like a tea spoon full. My friend thinks it might be that I hadn't eaten since a massive binge yesterday, but as I hadn't eaten in like 12 hours it was because of that.

Starburst · 30-07-2007, 01:47 PM

That happened to me over the weekend. I saw a doctor who said it was probably from wretching to be sick. It can be one of many things. Hope you're OK now.