Sounds like subconjunctival hemorrhage? It's mostly a harmless process, but there have been reports of severe thrombocytopenia (low platelets) associated with the vaccines, so I think it's reasonable to get it checked out, especially if she's experienced abnormal bleeding/bruising elsewhere as well. You don't need a hematologist to test for it, a regular complete blood count (CBC), one of the most common tests should do as it includes counts of your platelets as well as white/red blood cells.
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I didn't see where his actual study is at, so I'm basing my assessment on the article you posted. Here are a few things I think are worth pointing out.
First, some general comments:
1) D-dimer is considered a non-specific marker of inflammation. It can become elevated whenever something causes inflammation, like an infection, cancer, surgery or in this case, a vaccine. With that said, it should be noted that the mechanism of D-dimer being elevated in the setting of inflammation is that it can increase coagulation in the blood,
so this could actually be an indicator of elevated risk of forming blood clots.
2) The next logical question then, should be:
does an elevated D-dimer after vaccination actually lead to an increased risk in blood clots (I'm gonna guess yes, as we've seen some reports of it, and it's reasonable that something that causes inflammation should raises your risk of clots). This should nevertheless be studied, and is in fact being studied in phase 4 trials.
3) The logical question after that then, should be
how often does it happen, and to what degree? Only by reaching a conclusion in this step can we truly make the most informed decision. For example, surgeries massively increase your risk of forming blood clots, some raise it so much (e.g. hip replacement) that we actually give therapeutic doses of blood thinners preemptively after the surgery, even with potential risk of increased bleeding right after a surgery. We nevertheless proceed with surgeries, because blood clots don't happen often enough, and they're not deadly enough, to justify putting off surgery in most cases.
4) I think at least one of the logical questions after this would be:
if it's still being studied, why do some people, including so many doctors, rush to get the vaccine? This is because COVID, as you might already know, causes massive inflammation in your body, and results in a very, very high risk of blood clots. So much so that in the beginning of the pandemic (and even now in many hospitals) many doctors actually give preemptive treatment for blood clots for COVID patients. It's standard practice to give most hospitalized patients low dose blood thinners to prevent blood clots, but we're talking about at least double the dosing here. If vaccines cause as much blood clots anywhere near what COVID does, then phase 3 trials would've been able to catch them.
Now, some critical comments/questions:
1) The type of study Dr. Hoffe ran is not unusual, but typically
these types of studies are used to raise questions, not to answer them. That is, if an intervention raises D-dimer levels, it should raise the questions I asked above (i.e. does it actually increase clots? if so how often, and how severe?). Studies may then be done to answer these questions. It's bad science to just jump to the conclusion of these questions, which seems like what the article and Dr. Hoffe have done.
2) In fact, Dr. Hoffe jumps to a lot of conclusions. For example, this was quoted in the article "they’ve clogged up thousands of tiny capillaries in their lungs."
How does he know that? Did he take biopsies of lung tissue? We know it happens in COVID because of autopsy findings confirming such, has he done the same with vaccinated patients? It seems like he just checked a D-dimer and then jumped to various conclusions.
3) Probably the biggest and most glaring issue, even to laymen, is that it's clearly stated that "Hoffe has been conducting the D-dimer test on his patients to detect the potential presence of blood clots within
four to seven days of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine" Yet the conclusion he reaches is that there is permanent damage being caused. I think he's missing a few steps in between.
4) Another note: having access to his actual study is useful.
Does he has a control group. Any good study needs a control group. What are D-dimer levels in non-vaccinated patients? What are they in people who are recently vaccinated with say the influenza or tetanus vaccine? Is there randomization? We know that D-dimer levels go up with age, so if his patients are mostly elderly, then comparing it to the average of the general population may be inapplicable. Randomization helps to eliminate these kinds of biases.