Anyone take it for thin skin and bruises?

My arms and wrists look like I was beaten with an ugly stick....every bump, pinprick or scrape turns into a bruise and takes forever to heal, every scrape tears back the skin , sometimes I can pull it back over the wound sometimes not...Doc says I have old skin and laughed, lol, said it was normal...

Read that collagen MIGHT help, but probably won't....
anyone else with "old" skin?.....

Do you take a blood thinner? I do.

No blood thinners or aspirin therapy...

Get a blood test, CBC, biochem panel, INR and clotting factors. It sounds like a clotting issue so you must exclude serious problems first, which these basic tests will show.


If you are not on a low protein diet and don't have problems with you pancreas, collagen powder will do very little for the skin and my personal experience is that some forms of collagen in food supplements, especially fish-derived, are not very bioavailable and may cause allergies. I've found that very thick stock from beef or moose/deer hock joints works MUCH better, it's common knowledge here for joint issues. My mom had rotator cuff surgery scheduled after years of unsuccessful conservative treatment and I suggested the beef hock stock option with high doses of vitamin C and her shoulder healed within a month and it's been 15 years with no problems. The vitamin C catalyzes collagen synthesis, so no matter how protein rich your diet is, you won't be able to generate your own collagen without vitamin C. This is why gums bleed and old scars come apart in scurvy patients. By high doses, I mean at least 100 mg a day.

I take 16 different pills a day, and several of them are blood thinners that cause those "Senior Tatoo's"!

I take collagen powder, it definitely makes hair and nails grow super fast