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Why is my blood drying goldish bronze

Posted by lindamoo @lindamoo, Mar 9, 2022

I've noticed lately getting nicks and cuts my blood is red but when it drys it's a golden bronze like makeup bronzer power color I know this isn't normal. No I wasn't cutting. But accidentally trimmed my nail to low and had to pull it off. Yeah ouch. Anyways I didn't wanna drip and leak all over my paint audio so I just put the extra on my arm because I stop bleeding super fast all the time no matter the cut,jab or poke. Is this normal or do I need to go get checked I hate going in. I mean from an artist stand point it's a pretty color. It's kinda glittery the pictures do not justice

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Lori, Volunteer Mentor | @loribmt | Mar 9, 2022

Good morning @lindamoo As a fellow artist, I love the color burnt sienna and totally get your appreciation of the color you’re describing…with sparkles as a bonus! 🙃
When blood dries, it loses oxygen and turns a brown rusty color. Usually we don’t see it quite like that because it’s often in a concentrated scab form. I’m wondering, because you wiped the blood on your arm, it allowed the blood to spread out to dry with exposing more surface area for you to see the dried results. It’s also possible the plasma in the blood, because it carries so many minerals it can dry sparkly. I’ve seen this happen on surfaces. (Career-field related). In my opinion, it doesn’t sound abnormal and wouldn’t lose sleep over it.
However, I’m not a doctor and don’t want to dismiss the fact that you mentioned that you clot super quickly. If you feel this is abnormally fast you may want to have a CBC blood test run at your next physical to check your platelets level. Just to reassure yourself that all your blood perimeters are normal.
When’s the last time you had a blood test?

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lindamoo | @lindamoo | Mar 9, 2022
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@loribmt

Good morning @lindamoo As a fellow artist, I love the color burnt sienna and totally get your appreciation of the color you’re describing…with sparkles as a bonus! 🙃
When blood dries, it loses oxygen and turns a brown rusty color. Usually we don’t see it quite like that because it’s often in a concentrated scab form. I’m wondering, because you wiped the blood on your arm, it allowed the blood to spread out to dry with exposing more surface area for you to see the dried results. It’s also possible the plasma in the blood, because it carries so many minerals it can dry sparkly. I’ve seen this happen on surfaces. (Career-field related). In my opinion, it doesn’t sound abnormal and wouldn’t lose sleep over it.
However, I’m not a doctor and don’t want to dismiss the fact that you mentioned that you clot super quickly. If you feel this is abnormally fast you may want to have a CBC blood test run at your next physical to check your platelets level. Just to reassure yourself that all your blood perimeters are normal.
When’s the last time you had a blood test?

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Thank you and yes it is a pretty color. And I'm headed in to get work done. Apparently I have an issue with rdw or drw something like that my last work up was a little over a year ago for cbc run downs. Have a wonderful day

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Mar 12, 2022
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@lindamoo

Thank you and yes it is a pretty color. And I'm headed in to get work done. Apparently I have an issue with rdw or drw something like that my last work up was a little over a year ago for cbc run downs. Have a wonderful day

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Hi Linda,
RDW refers to the red cell distribution width. RDW is a blood test that measures the amount of red blood cell variation in volume and size. Here's more info:
[ What is an RDW blood test? https://www.healthline.com/health/rdw-blood-test

Did you learn anything more from recent blood tests?

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