I have personal experience with this phenomenon, albeit, and fortunately, not
through an accident. When making a blood donation recently, the nurse who
pricked my finger for the preliminary hemoglobin test noted that it took a
long time for the pinprick to stop bleeding. While she held cotton on my
finger, she looked at my info sheet and noted I had taken Advil in the past
72 hours. She pointed out this was the likely cause of slow clotting. I'm
careful not to have any ibuprofen in me now when I go to the blood center!
This discussion of medications reminds me that when I rode Tevis in 1990
(first and probably last time!), I later referred to it as my Triple A
ride--I did it all on Advil, antacids, and antiflatulants!
Linda Romander
San Francisco, Calif.