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1029058 tn?1253539152

THICK BLOOD

having hard time getting blood with blood test and it is thick even tho i take a blood thinner and 81 mg of baby aspirin a day
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612551 tn?1450022175
Again, I think, I am referring to coagulation when I use the term "blood thinner' and it is in that context that I assume you use "thick blood" as too high a coagulation factor.  I think that even if you have a higher than normal clotting blood the difficulty in "tapping" a vein was due to "finding it" and/or it has a tough scar surface in the area that has been used many times before.

Thank you for donating blood... it is a gift of life and I believe can come only from a human... not animal substitutes and no synthetics yet.
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1029058 tn?1253539152
Have never had any problem giving blood before the last 2 times, and the last they tried both arms and I wound up going back 2 days later and they finally got it through a butterfly needle and it was very slow in coming out.
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612551 tn?1450022175
I have no idea what you mean by "thick" blood, well, yes, blood anticoagulants are often referred to as "blood thinners" I believe they do not in any way thin the blood, they change the ability of the blood to coagulate, the blood is otherwise unchanged.

One may have deep veins or thicker skin, and that may make it harder to "draw" blood for a test... but I think the problem is not "thick blood".
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