Hi ann and run4peach1,
Thank you ann for the kind words
- you know when I search the net for info I learn a lot myself.
You know run4peach1 MDS patients should be very careful and always control if the food or the drugs they are taking could decrease their platelets or increase bleeding. Of cause we have to take drugs like antibiotics when we need them even if some patient get decreased platelets from that drug.
When I was dx May 2006 my platelet count was 65. Since then I have looked at the warning list from patients with a bleeding disease due to low platelets and my platelets have decreased very slowly to about 40 without bleeding symptoms.
Pain medications are specially dangerous but drugs for depression could be bad too. Try to control the adverse reactions of the drug that your father’s doctor eventually will give him.
http://www.pdsa.org/itp-information/itp-warnings.html
Hope your father's fighting spirit will increase!
Kind regards
Birgitta-A