what are the treatment for a hematoma in the arm?
the dr. diagnosis me with a hematoma to the forearm, I am doing everything the dr orders but the hematoma is getting larger. the reason for the hematoma was caused by taking my blood pressure too much, it has no pain and no bruising. Can i have the wrong diagnosis . Is elevation and hot treatments all i can do?
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A hematoma is simply an accumulation of blood under the skin. It’s not very likely that a hematoma would be misdiagnosed, but the doc could easily be wrong about the cause. If there is still bleeding under the skin you either have an injury that is bleeding (possibly an injured blood vessel?) or you have a clotting problem. A blood test is needed to identify a clotting problem. If no clotting problem shows up in a test, there has to be some sort of injury that is not healing.
You are doing pretty much all you can do at home to help blood become reabsorbed, but if there is still bleeding, applying heat can make it worse.