Pulse_Kimonos

Have you ever heard of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP)? A lot of people mistake ITP for Hemophilia or vice versa.

I hope the cure happens in this lifetime for the sake of your future children. I had fun reading your tattoos stories. How many kids are you planning to have? Living with chronic ITP and being a female, I was discouraged from having kids.

The acute form is viral but the chronic form's cause is still unknown. Some say the chronic form might even be genetic. Both me and my cousin have ITP. I had the lowest count of platelet of 1,000 that could have brought a lot of complications (normal platelet level is 150,000 and up). How's your platelet count normally at? I just wondered what numbers do you look at in the Complete Blood Count tests?

Either steroids such as Prednisolone or IV ImmunoGlobulin in my case. The steroids can be oral or IV and I hated them! Steroids made me have moon face. The cheeks became fuller and round, hiding the cheekbones more. When I bleed when my platelet is low, it doesn't stop or very slowly stop. The blood vessels in my eyeballs and underneath my skin pop giving the appearance of red dots or petechiae. Do you get petechiae (tiny bruises)? I was at first mistaken for Dengue Fever since I was diagnosed in Malaysia.