Also see some discussion of this in the thread "
TO quote Erica from that thread: "Sometimes a hematoma is just a hematoma"
"Someone here posted recently a really clever guide to bruises - if a bruise is sore, you probably got it the normal way by clunking yourself somehow. If a bruise isnt' sore, maybe it is an ITP type bruise that occurred without a real injury."
I imagine this is not an uncommon experience - you might mention your ITP to someone and explain it and the person says something like "Oh, I get bruises all the time that I have no explanation for". A version of this conversation occurs often in my experience - which means that many people get bruises for no explanation. So when they occur at high platelet numbers in ITP patients, I suspect the phenomena is akin to those bruises in people without ITP...
