bruise under eye ?? have PMR

Bones, joints and muscles
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Hi all, I had my 1st dry needling yesterday on my lower spine and some light massage. It feels a little better this morning but to early yet, will be a long term project I think. ( Facet Joint Arthritis )

My question is, I am on blood thinners, and my Physio knows this and was gentle. But this morning when I woke, both my eyes have very dark looking bruises under them, not the full length of the eye..  Like where we have bags lol  

Is this something I should be concerned about? my only change is I have started to take 1 Super 1000 fish oil capsule a day.

I guess I am just being silly because of the blood thinners : No bruising where she inserted the needles, a little sore but fine.

Thanks Dea 

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You should check into this.  A quick look at what dr google has to say indicates that fish oil can cause excessive and prolonged bruising "especially when taken with other blood thinners like aspirin" - and presumably your prescription blood thinners.

I'm glad you find the dry needling seems to be helping.  

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Thanks Anhaga, I will check out the fish oil and blood thinners, who would think : PMR and Preds, the things we put up with  

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I was told to stop taking my CLO capsulesw hile having a hip replacement and was told by the hospital pharmacist it was because, along with the surgery drugs, they would thin my blood too much.

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Yep I have to agree with the other's I have always been told to stop my fish oil before any surgeries or epedural injections.

But another thing is that my eye dr had me taking omega 3 1100 mg and when I started on pred he told me to stop the omega 3. I am still having a lot of problems with my dry eye since so we talked about starting it over again. He told me that one of the problems is bruising.