Is this the place for medical advice?
Platelets should be 150, this person has platelet count 7.
Not from birth.
Not due to illegal or prescription drugs.
Hospital tried steroids and blood transfusion without success.
Bone marrow biopsy showed nothing wrong.
Ditto mri.
I’m all out of ideas.
mollwollfumble said:
Is this the place for medical advice?Platelets should be 150, this person has platelet count 7.
Not from birth.
Not due to illegal or prescription drugs.
Hospital tried steroids and blood transfusion without success.
Bone marrow biopsy showed nothing wrong.
Ditto mri.I’m all out of ideas.
Oh, and one more, not due to being deliberately poisoned.
Thrombocytopenia?
mollwollfumble said:
mollwollfumble said:
Is this the place for medical advice?Platelets should be 150, this person has platelet count 7.
Not from birth.
Not due to illegal or prescription drugs.
Hospital tried steroids and blood transfusion without success.
Bone marrow biopsy showed nothing wrong.
Ditto mri.I’m all out of ideas.
Oh, and one more, not due to being deliberately poisoned.
Try spinach.
btm said:
mollwollfumble said:
mollwollfumble said:
Is this the place for medical advice?Platelets should be 150, this person has platelet count 7.
Not from birth.
Not due to illegal or prescription drugs.
Hospital tried steroids and blood transfusion without success.
Bone marrow biopsy showed nothing wrong.
Ditto mri.I’m all out of ideas.
Oh, and one more, not due to being deliberately poisoned.
Try spinach.
GUINNESS
or perhaps seek medical advice – but what the fuck would I know.
A normal platelet count ranges from 150,000 to 350,000. It’s important to have enough platelets in your blood. If the number of platelets is too low, excessive bleeding can occur. The medical name for a low platelet count is thrombocytopenia (throm-bo-sigh-toe-PEE-nee-uh)
https://share.upmc.com/2016/01/low-blood-platelet-count/
It’s cancer for sure.
agglutinated
Woodie said:
A normal platelet count ranges from 150,000 to 350,000. It’s important to have enough platelets in your blood. If the number of platelets is too low, excessive bleeding can occur. The medical name for a low platelet count is thrombocytopenia (throm-bo-sigh-toe-PEE-nee-uh)https://share.upmc.com/2016/01/low-blood-platelet-count/
> A platelet count below 20,000 is very low. When it’s this low, you may bleed even when you’re not injured. Your doctor may order platelet transfusions until your count returns to a safe level.
Yeah. They went into hospital first with a platelet count of 7,000.
> Try spinach.
That is not such a stupid idea. “Lean meats such as fish, chicken and turkey are rich in protein, zinc and Vitamin B12, all of which help increase the blood platelet count. Beans contain Vitamin B9 or folate which greatly helps boost the blood platelet count. Some other foods rich in B9 are spinach …”.
And
“Vitamin K plays a key role in helping the blood clot, preventing excessive bleeding. Unlike many other vitamins, vitamin K is not typically used as a dietary supplement. Vitamin K is actually a group of compounds. The most important of these compounds appears to be vitamin K1 and vitamin K2. Vitamin K1 is obtained from leafy greens …”
The person tried that and it worked, sort of. With dietary change they got the platelet count up to 16,000, not high enough but noticeably better. Went into hospital again and the count quickly went back down to 10,000, even with steroids. Not happy with hospital.
> It’s cancer for sure.
My first thought. Nothing on MRI, nothing in bone marrow biopsy. Wouldn’t there be a simple blood test for leukemia?
My second thought was warfarin, rat poison. But as the person’s platelet count was declining even in hospital, it would have to be self-administered, which seems unlikely.
> agglutinated.
I had not thought of that. Could it occur cryptically?
How else could platelets be removed from the blood?
How does the body know what the correct level of platelets in the blood is – homeostasis?
This person does have other medical problems, notably pre-diabetes (they can’t treat low blood sugar by eating sugar because that causes a long term drop in blood sugar making things a lot worse).
They also have sarcosis, hold on, I misheard that, psychosis.
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Best guess at the moment is that a stomach bug is producing some chemical that blocks vitamin K–dependent clotting factors. Wild guess.
Rule 303 said:
It’s cancer for sure.
Yeah, it’s gotta be.
Just because the hospital can’t find anything more dangerous than a cyst, doesn’t matter. There has to be a cancer there somewhere.
Could what a doctor calls a “cyst” actually be a cancer?
mollwollfumble said:
Could what a doctor calls a “cyst” actually be a cancer?
Lance it and see.
Witty Rejoinder said:
mollwollfumble said:
Could what a doctor calls a “cyst” actually be a cancer?
Lance it and see.
That means “yes”?
mollwollfumble said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
mollwollfumble said:
Could what a doctor calls a “cyst” actually be a cancer?
Lance it and see.
That means “yes”?
Keeping in mind that doctors aren’t always right, then yes.
But usually cysts and tumours are quite distinct.
Could be idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Not a malignancy. Can be treated.