PMR, Prednisone, Eye Hemorrhage

My husband gets them periodically.  His is due to blood thinners according to the Dr.   A sneeze or a cough can cause them.   I am not sure if pred thins the blood but it sure thins the skin.  

I've had a few, either too much exertion or more recently blood thinners. Bright red at first but fade and disappear over about a week.

I had them too before PMR and pred. Looks very scary, but when I saw an eye doctor, he pretty much said it's nothing to worry about. I don't' take any blood thinners or have any blood pressure issue.  I had one a month ago too.  After a few days it slowly disappeared.

I woke up to this a couple of weeks ago. Looked very scary but dr said nothing to worry about. She said could be pred related but happens to people who don't take pred too. 

I had a couple of spectacular nose bleeds after I'd been onPred. for a considerable time ( eight years in all). Not sure if any connection but the routine cauterising procedure fixed it.

As robbie says, thin skin and pred. ARE connected and the colourful bruises we all know about are little bleeds, I believe.

Some people suffer from them a lot when on pred - as long as it is just on the white of your eye and it doesn't hurt or itch it's probably nothing to worry about. 

Here's an extract with the low down:

"The hemorrhage itself is an obvious, sharply outlined bright red area overlying the sclera. The entire white part of the eye may occasionally be covered by blood.

In a spontaneous subconjunctival hemorrhage, no blood will exit from the eye. If one blots the eye with a tissue, there should be no blood on the tissue.

The hemorrhage will appear larger within the first 24 hours after its onset and then will slowly decrease in size as the blood is absorbed.

Call a primary-care provider or ophthalmologist (a medical doctor who specializes in eye care and surgery) if the subconjunctival hemorrhage does not get better within two weeks or if it has happened multiple times.

Also, call your health-care provider if you have a hemorrhage in both eyes at the same time or if the subconjunctival hemorrhage coincides with a new onset of easy bruising or bleeding gums.

Go to a doctor immediately if the subconjunctival hemorrhage is associated with

- pain,

- changes in vision (for example, blurry vision, double vision, difficulty seeing),

- a history of recent injury or trauma, and

- a history of bleeding disorder."

I had them too, and my Eye Doctor told me that taking a daily baby aspirin can cause this.  I don't take the aspirin anymore, and I am fine.

I also had several of  these hemoraghes  during my second  year on prednisone. ( I was not taking any other medications)   the opthalmologist  said they were nothing to worry about unless accompanied by other symptoms such as those  listed by Eileen.  the occurences stopped in my third year on prednisone.