Tell people you keep bursting veins in your fingers and seems everyone has a story. Similar, however, isn’t same, so here, in detail is what happens with mine and my cousin’s.
I’ve been getting these since around age 26. They start as a spontaneous sharp pinch sensation in the soft phalange of a finger and if you look at the finger at that time the vein will be bulging, turn purple-black as it bursts and the blood from it then fills up the phalange of the finger turning it purple, and progressively black, with associated pain. Then over a series of days the blood will be taken back up by the body and the bruise will disappear. Fairly mundane little issue, transient, but can be perplexing, worrying. If you have these regularly, as my cousin and I now do (every few weeks or more) chances are you have a vascular problem. If you have other signs of vascular EDS (EDS IV) you would best get a referral to a vascular specialist aware of the condition to get an opinion.

Donna Williams, BA Hons, Dip Ed.
Author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter.
Autism consultant and public speaker.
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