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I've never had a nosebleed in my life, until a month ago when I got one (kinda freaked me out too ). Then this Saturday I got another one. I hadn't made the connection before till someone it brought it to my attention, but both times it's happened after the Friday I get my braces adjustment. I looked this up on-line and found that nosebleeds can occur after an adjustment.
My question is: how common is this? Is this indicative that perhaps the adjustments are too intense??? Any thoughts?
I used to suffer from nosebleeds quite frequently but i've never had one close before or after an adjustment. Could perhaps be to do with pressure from the braces?
After I broke my nose a few years ago ( ) I stopped having nosebleeds, and I haven't had one ever since ..
I haven't got my braces on yet, because I still have a consultation in June, so it will be interesting to see whether I'LL get nose bleeds, because before I broke my nose, I had them very frequently
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I get nosebleeds pretty frequently when it is very dry. When I first moved from NY to So Cal, dry season was TORTURE, but with better hydration (and acclimation to the climate) I have them much less.
I still get pretty dry and bloody sometimes, but I haven't had an actual dry season nosebleed in awhile.
I have no idea if it had anything to do with your adjustments but I've always had nosebleeds. Once I even had to go in and have the inside of my nose cauterized because I had a nosebleed that just owuldn't stop. And it wasn't a little drip-drip situation. It was full on pouring. Blech! I was told it was from allergy irritation blah blah blah....
Anyway, something I've learned is that when my nose tries to start drying out if I'll put a little Neosporin on a Q-tip and swab the inside of my nose it helps prevent them.
Now I'm not a doctor so don't sue me if you accidently slip with the Q-tip and ram your brain or wind up having a horrible deathly allergic reaction to neosporin. LOL! So try it at your own risk.
). Then this Saturday I got another one. I hadn't made the connection before till someone it brought it to my attention, but both times it's happened after the Friday I get my braces adjustment. I looked this up on-line and found that nosebleeds can occur after an adjustment. 
) I stopped having nosebleeds, and I haven't had one ever since ..
