POLL Nosebleeds - do you get them? (Revised Poll)

I get nosebleeds only in the winter. I know why I get them. Living in Canada means our furnace is on most of the time. It drys the air out. My skin gets very dry and occassionally I get the odd very small nosebleed.

Nosebleeds are not diagnostically related to ME from what I have read. There are tons of reasons one can get a nosebleed -- dry air, sinus infections, picking your nose too much, blowing your nose too hard, cold or flu, deviated septum, high altitude, certain medications, liver disease, snorting too much cocaine etc, chemical irritants, calcium deficiency, inherited bleeding disorders -- to name a few.

Nosebleeds are very common, everyone gets them at some point in their lives.

I really don't know what this poll is meant to show.

What does occassionally mean -- 1/year, 2/year. It's difficult to answer. Frequent, long-lasting nosebleeds would likely mean an investigation should take place, but I doubt it would be included as a sypmtom of ME.

Allyson -- maybe your nosebleeds have absolutely nothing to do with ME. Maybe they have to do with your diagnosis of EDS. Nosebleeds are not a diagnostic criteria of ME. They are common to the population of the whole world. Healthy people get them. Sick people get them.

Polls on a forum really don't tell you a whole lot and plus you can't extrapolate anything from just a few answers.

Allyson -- I am not referring to fibromyalgia, I am referring to ME. Where are nosebleeds in the Canadian Consensus Criteria. I have done a lot of research on ME. I think the key here is that you have recently received a diagnosis of EDS which would explain the symptom of nosebleeds or it could be that you were just prone to them as a child. That is something that really doesn't have an easy answer. Again, nosebleeds are not diagnostically significant in ME.

Canadian Criteria

The article specifically refers to Fibromyalgia. Actually the banner refers to 'Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue' which has nothing to do with ME or CFS. The ICC doesn't mention nosebleeds either.

You quoted a site that said fibromyalgia is related to nosebleeds. My point was that nosebleeds are not a diagnostic criteria for ME. ME is not fibromyalgia. We are not discussing the banner for PR, we are discussing nosebleeds. We don't exclude any differential or related diagnosis from this site. All is important when one is looking for answers. Quite a few have said yes they have nosebleeds but it doesn't mean they are a result of ME as nosebleeds are common to the general healthy population. I suppose one could note that most have said they don't have nosebleeds.

I guess I am missing your point. I just don't see a connection to ME as one can't extrapolate any meaning to a poll that doesn't define the parameters. A lot of time has been put into defining consensus criteria -- whether Canadain or ICC -- neither mentions nosebleeds. Neither say that ME/CFS is a connective disorder. A nosebleed is a nosebleed, not diagnostic of much, except a nosebleed.

Allyson

I thought this thread was about nosebleeds? Lyme is a bit off topic.

Sushi

The list of symptoms is in Table 1

Sushi