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Red or black spots on fingernails, recent injury or trauma
Red or black spots on fingernails, recent injury or trauma
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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A 30-year old male asked:
I have trochanteric bursitis in my hip. I also have a very tender indented spot 6-8 inches down my leg. No injury/trauma or redness/swelling concern?
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A 31-year old asked:
Two little red blood spots in my mouth, trauma?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Got a random sore spot on my forearm for 2 weeks. Its way less sore now.Not red or swollen,no trauma happened there. Any ideas what causes it?
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A 19-year old male asked:
I have a non painful red spot on the hard palate of the roof of my mouth. Could this be caused by trauma? Or something more serious
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A 30-year old female asked:
Small red purple spot in an enlarged papilla left cheek & a canker sore inside red cheek. I have allergies but overall feel fine. No trauma, feel ok?
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A 20-year old male asked:
Flat and painless red mark in throat, possible std from giving oral? seems to be in the same spot I would hit my brush, possible bruise from trauma?
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A 37-year old male asked:
I poke white part of my eye hour ago with fingernail while taking out contact.shows dark red spot that hurts will it stop hurting on its own ?
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A 22-year old female asked:
I keep getting red spots on my face skin but its not acne since my skin has been clear recently but it looks like its underneath. It looks like red blood / spots or minor injuries on skin ?
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A 18-year old female asked:
I recently broke my finger nail off at work. it bleed a lot & was super painful, i noticed a black spot under the skin, will it go away?
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A 20-year old female asked:
My daughter is 14 months old && her pinky fingernail fell off. What could this mean? No injury or trauma and she isn't in any pain. H e l p !
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A female asked:
My son has a 2 black spots under the skin of the pad part ofone of his toes. It dosent hurt and he hasn't had any trauma to his toe that he knows of.
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A 23-year old female asked:
I have tenderness on certain spots of skin throughout my body with no rash, redness, swelling. Feels almost as if its been burned. No injury, random.?
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A 46-year old asked:
I have a black spot on my toe. It appeared overnight without any trauma. What could cause this?
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A 58-year old female asked:
What would cause toe and fingernails to turn black and fall off? No trauma, no pain.
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A 20-year old male asked:
Had pimples on my face, I crushed those by fingernails Now there are black spots. I tried BetnovateN but it's not working. Which cream will remove it?
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A 19-year old female asked:
I have a brown/black spot on 1toe.Been there for months but toe nail grows slow so not grown out.Does not move when pressed, no memory of trauma.Panic?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Hello Doctor Im 26 years old tomorrow. I have balanitis like redness and very dry skin on the head of penis and white spots like herpess in the skin of penis that got black in some parts. How to brighten the skin of penis and to cure the redness?
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A 37-year old female asked:
My son came to me with a hard lump on top of his head. Hard. Size of small bouncy ball cut in half. No recent trauma he recalls.no pain. no redness or bruising. Neuro appears WNL.
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A 53-year old male asked:
I have a small black spot under my thumb fingernail, what is it ?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Could melanoma be picked off with fingernail? My friend is 27 and he pick a 3mm black spot on leg. He has panic attacks. Was it a melanoma?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Is melanoma common at 26 male on leg? Also would melanoma come of with a fingernail? My reason is my friend scatched a black spot on leg.
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A 47-year old asked:
I had a small black spot on my bottom lip that fastly turned into two black lips w/ redness, swelling & itching. Any ideas?
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A 53-year old female asked:
I often get fingernail size dark bruises,blackish,purple in colour on the backs of my hands ,they only last a day or two then disappear, and another one will come up in another spot,any ideas what or why this is?
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A 22-year old male asked:
Recently I've had off and on pain in knees mostly when moving around,redness, soreness, hurts when bending making it hard to move,hip pain, feels like I can't carry myself around stiffness these symptoms in both knees same spot I don't overuse them?
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A 37-year old female asked:
What can cause flat red spots on child's arm that together form a line about 2 inches long and 5mm wide over a vein. it is flat and doesn't turn white when pressed, no pain or wormth no other symptoms doesn't recall injury?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Sudden bruising on arm. Red, hurts when pressed on it. Appeared suddenly. No injury or trauma. Help?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Small bruise with red spots appeared out of nowhere, don't recall injury. I made a dr appt--petechiae worry me. Did I act too quickly? What can dr do?
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A 32-year old female asked:
I have had a blunt trauma to my stomach lover quadrant 24 hours ago. Vomiting started now and a bit lightheaded before vomiting. Area of injury is blue mostal pink red?
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A female asked:
2 days ago I noticed a small red rash on my right lower abdomen, today there is a large bruise under it. No pain ,no trauma or injury. Any ideas?
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A female asked:
What caused a tiny red nodule to appear on the top of 2nd toe joint, no pain, no enclosed shoes in months (only flip-flops), no injury or trauma?
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