Thin purple veins under eyes - General Health Message Board

JasonKid · 02-12-2008, 04:12 PM

Over the past 6 months or so I've been slowly developing these dark purple veins under my eyes. I've got one under my left eye that goes from bottom to top, and now I see two more starting to appear under my right eye. I think they might be called spider veins, but I'm not toally sure if that's what it is.

So my question is, what's causing these? Granted I have a very erratic sleep schedule so I usually don't get what you would call a good night's sleep, but that's how it's been for a while and these veins are a recent occurrence. Consequently I've ruled out sleep as the cause, but I guess I should leave the diagnosis to you guys.

TheAdventure · 03-16-2008, 04:43 PM

I don't understand what they are either. Mine came on after I took something called Ciprofloxacin (it is a quinolone antibiotic, others are levaquin, avelox, floxin etc..). Cipro caused chronic insomnia aswell as lots of other symptoms and lately I have been getting these very thin purple veins around my body, and under my eyes.