Hi Ingy
Welcome to KickAS,
While we sometimes like to blame almost everything on our AS, breaking our noses seems to stretch credibility a bit. I broke my nose the first time when I was 4 years old and fell down two stairs. Broke my nose the second time at the age of 14 while boxing with a cousin who was 27. A year later, I experienced my first AS pains. I doubt that there is any connection.
Re the nose bleeds, I also had this problem at least once a day during my elementary school days and sometimes twice a day. The Doctor gave my mother a bunch of the silver nitrate swabs so Mom could cauterize it at home.
As the Doctor explained my bleeding, my blood vessels were to close to the surface and when I was too active, playing too rough or whenever the interior of my nose got too dry, the skin would crack and bleeding usually followed. So my Mom got the idea that it would be wise to keep the inside of my nose lubricated and every morning, I would get a layer of Vaseline spread inside my nose. It worked but only for about 4 or 5 hours so I started taking a small jar of Vaseline to school with me. Kids would tease me about opening a jar and stuffing the contents up my nose.
The nose bleeds dropped from 1 a day to about 1 every couple of weeks. At age of 18, the bleeding stopped completely.
George
Breb Assyl
