purple blotches on skin

[Zamalek]

good morning. Can anyone explain how micro-clotting is diagnosed please.

Thank you.

[MaryF Administrator]

Hi, I notice on this paper, a test that is at times used, hope this is helpful: rthm.com/articles/long-covi...

[KellyInTexas Administrator]

if you have purple blotches on your skin, you may need blood work to check other thinks also. ( platelets, for example. )

Also we can have little spasms of the vessel walls- causes a non ANCA / PANCA vasculitis (as in inflammation of the vessel) - just a swelling of veins, any size. Clotting ( micro possible) can occur because this swelling can close off these vessels.

My APS doctors have been talking about this for a while- and only recently it’s been published.

It’s impossible to say - but it may not an easy answer. It also may be a few answers at once.

edit to add link:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

[Pooky7 in reply to KellyInTexas]

Kelly, your Dr sounds amazing. My Dr is a GP. Hematologists by me are not interested in APS, only CA. I get my blood drawn and get the results . It’s up to me to change doses or figure out what I have been doing differently. Amazingly, my gut, keeps me in check:). I have tried to find a good dr since 2007. It is sad how the medical field is driven by $.