Why do I keep popping blood vessels??

[JAFA]

Now and again I pop blood vessels in my fingers - it is usually the ring finger on my left hand ( I'm right handed if it matters ), and the vessel pops between the hand and the first knuckle out. It'll happen when I pick something up or grab onto something, it won't happen while I'm just sitting there doing nothing. I think it may have happened to a couple of other fingers ( the "flip the bird" finger ), and maybe on the right hand a couple of times, but can't remember exactly.

Today I was lifting some cardboard boxes, not heavy or large, and a blood vessel popped on my left wrist. It is just on the arm side of the bone that sticks out which is inline with your thumb. I think I touched my arm on a box as I was picking it up right before / as the blood vessel pooped.

So I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem and what they do to fix / reduce / minimise it?? Otherwise I might have to shell out the readies for a trip to the quack.

BTW I have been a blood donor for years and everything has always been ok.

[Captain Starfish]

varicose veins - old age , high blood pressure/thinning capillary walls. Strange in the fingers/hands though.

I would go and see a doc, just in case it's symptomatic of something a little more seriarse.

[potato]

^^ wsfushsys

i opened the thread cause you scuba dive a lot and might have shed light on it

[Mo-Fo]

I'm no quack but it sounds like the lining of some of your blood vessels is thin.

Go see ur GP mate. I wouldn't be trying to self diagnose on a bike forum.

[darkfibre]

Go see ur GP mate. I wouldn't be trying to self diagnose on a bike forum.

Unless its the battery of course.

[Old frt]

Just bung a bandaid on it, you're so vein.

[Para045]

Just bung a bandaid on it, you're so vein.

Aorta give ya slap for that comment

[GSX IN SHED]

don't yield to the pressure, no use beatin' yourself up about it....you might be variclose to the solution...