5. Easy Bruising
If you are bruising easily and often, then you definitely want to look at hepatitis C is a potential cause. Easily bruising can be a symptom of several different illnesses, but if you are already experiencing other symptoms of hepatitis C, then you definitely want to take this one under serious consideration. The reason that bruising happens with hep C is that the liver isn’t processing nearly as fast as it should, so blood gets backed up into the spleen and loses its platelets.
Without those platelets circulating throughout the body, clotting does not happen as quickly as it should. This is usually throughout the entire body, and bruises may hang around for several days or weeks. Again, there are other reasons that you might bruise easily, so the symptom doesn’t always lead to hepatitis C, but it is a symptom that should always be investigated.