Blood Clot?

[ChrisDDD]

I have no idea what forum to go to, so since I'm used to this one and my problem could relate to low platelets, I'll start here.  About the same time I started Olysio & Sovaldi, I got a light flesh-colored hard knot about the size of a dime right above my right elbow.  There was blue all around it.  Then the blue was replaced by spreading purple so the whole area is 3" by 2" with the knot in the middle.  It hurts.  I didn't show it to my doctor at my HepC visit this past Wednesday because I don't want to be taken off of yet another treatment and I doubt this would qualify, but I have no idea what this is.  My doctor did mention low platelets when I mentioned fatigue as a side effect, but all my blood work is normal.  Where do I ask this question?  Thanks.

ChrisDDD

[Dee1956]

Hi there, Id and Blue have given you excellent advice
I understand that you don't want to stop your tx.  I would have someone take a look at it right away.
Is there any way you could have hit it and it is a bruise albeit a bad one due to low platelets?
I am worried it might be something serious but I completely understand that you want to continue the tx.
My thought, on a Saturday is to to go an ER so they can check you out, they could take a look at it and maybe draw blood and get it back right away.
I have heard of these minute clinics in CVS where you might be able to go just to have someone take a look.
If nothing else it could ease your mind until you can see your Hep doc or regular doc.

Take care
Dee

[bluemetal]

I agree with idyllic. simultaneously, however, in addition to letting the hep doctor know, Id arrange for a biopsy with dermatology. If, right from the start, upon the dermatology dept looking at it and declining to touck it, youll at least know its not merely skin deep, and something a littlemore serious. The possibilities of wehat this could be are quite extensive, and without knowing more about your completed HCV med condition, etc, its even harder to nail down. The biopsy would be my choice though. There are very few things that can be hidden from the micro zoom focus of an electron microscope.

[Idyllic]

You say the knot started around the time you started treatment so it has been around, what 30 days or so? And it continues to change in appearance as time goes progresses. In other words it is not going away?  

How low are your platelets? I think it would help another person who responds to this to know your baseline and what they are now. I know there are other labs you take that help form an overall picture like PTT and INR. I just don't know how it all comes together and/or all the different possibilities or implications. Or if imaging could help identify what the knot actually is.

This sounds like something you ought to have looked at. Ideally by who is treating your HCV.

Here is a maybe over simplified link that talks about blood clots in general (the description of clots does kind of matches yours)
http://www.bloodclotinarm.com/


I regret participation on here has been so slow. I know there are lots of people on here who could offer insight. This does not sound like something you should ignore much longer.