Post angiogram

[Sensei_Mark]

Hi all,

I had my angiogram just over a week ago, and it seems my bruising is getting worse. Is this normal?

[Calliope153]

Do you mean it is changing colour or spreading over a larger area?

[Sensei_Mark in reply to Calliope153]

Spreading and tender. I know because the femoral artery is deep, it can take time to develope, but I don't know if its due to this, or a possible small bleed internally.

Just wanted to know if anyone else experienced the same.

[Calliope153 in reply to Sensei_Mark]

sorry can;t help as both my angiograms were through wrist. No doubt someone with experience will be along shortly to answer your query.

[Sensei_Mark in reply to Calliope153]

No problem. I hoped that's how they would do mine, but not so lucky.

Thanks for your help.

[Red_Baron in reply to Sensei_Mark]

Hi Mark, I would call them up. I had mine through the right groin and they used Angus-Seal (which I assumed is a standard) and had no problems. Aside from a little soreness on the wound, no problems at all. I would get it checked out. Better to be safe.

[Red_Baron in reply to Red_Baron]

Angio-Seal not Angus (damned predictive text)

[Sensei_Mark in reply to Red_Baron]

Thanks. I too had it through the right groin, but just a compression dressing, nothing fancy.

So you had no bruising at all?

[Red_Baron in reply to Sensei_Mark]

No bruising at all. I would definitely get it checked. How’s your movement in the joint, aside from the soreness, any restrictions? The seal was a little silicone “plug” which they used on the artery.

[SpiritoftheFloyd]

Hi

I had angiogram through right groin with an angio-seal to close the wound. The area from my groin around the top of my leg and hip bruised very heavily - it went from red to purple and then yellow before finally fading - took about 3 weeks before it was gone, no pain or anything like that, just looked like I'd been involved in a road traffic accident!

[Sensei_Mark in reply to SpiritoftheFloyd]

Thanks. I suppose it affects people differently. I'll keep an eye on it.

[Tempest1970]

Hiya

So I had an angiogram a year ago. And after a week the bruising was black and about 4 inches deep at top of thigh, all the way round.

Very tender heavy feeling and a lump was appearing, sausage shape at top of thigh.... i didn't know then, but I had a bleed. They had nicked the artery.

I would ring cardio ward and get them to check...mine was seen straight away on a ultra sound, they wondered of angio seal had moved.. so there might be that.

Good luck !

[Sunnie2day]

Bruises often look worse as they heal - they go through some disturbing colourations generally from angry red to varying shades of blue to a spectacular purple to a horrific sickly shade of green to a bilious looking yellow - and then one morning you look down and HEY, no bruise! During the healing process, the warning sign to watch for is oozing from the insertion point, lumpiness, increasing pain OR numbness, and that 'sense something isn't right'. Generally, if you feel even a bit better every day, you probably are fine - but any worries and you really should ask for a check just in case.

I had an angiogram and right-heart study late November 2019 - angio through the wrist, right-heart through the groin. Compression for both sites despite my repeated requests for angio-seals as I'm 'a bleeder' thanks to the 300mg aspirin I take with my beta blocker every morning.

My bruises and tenderness at both sites lasted well over a month. The bruising from the right-heart study was so gruesome I decided on Day4 not to look again until the end of Week4 unless I started feeling 'weirdness' in my right leg.

Once I decided that, I had no problems from the leg site - I did wear very loose trousers (wide-leg lounging trousers, pyjama bottoms, and joggers) and I think as far as discomfort goes, the loose fitting bottoms made a difference. By the end of Week4 the bruising was a horrid and thereby satisfactory yellow - I knew that site had healed and the bruising doing the fade it should be doing.

The site on my right wrist actually took the longest to heal - I began to think I'd never be comfortable wearing a long-sleeved blouse or coat with a knit cuff again, and the bruising there lingered on for close to eight weeks. Quite tender to touch and as I am right-handed, actually uncomfortable to use even to lift a fork.

[Sensei_Mark in reply to Sunnie2day]

Many thanks for sharing your experience. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't alone.

As they say, time is a great healer.