Fucking platelets

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13. Well, as I said

There are two causes of low platelets. One is that you successfully make platelets, but a portion of your immune system kills them off after they're created. For that, you can have an immunoglobulin infusion (which I did the other week) which basically creates decoys that get killed instead of the platelets. We did this, and my platelets went up to 72k, which is not huge, but it's something (a really successfull infusion would have kicked it way higher). So that's part of the equation.

The other way you have low platelets is by having a shitty bone marrow. You would test this with a bone marrow biopsy. That's probably my next step. Then, if it's confirmed that the bone marrow is damaged, I think the only recourse is a bone marrow transplant.

I'm not aware of any other avenues. Actually, that's not true - steroids could help, but because I have chemo-induced diabetes, I can't take steroids - they exacerbate the situation (and actually create it to begin with).