My mum is diagnosed with Itp. She is 68 years old.
She is taking 120mg prodnisone a day.last week the count of palette was 22k this week when only 33k is this normal.she has osteoporosis as well please advise if any of you had the same issue.
Thank you
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Your mom needs a good hematologist. Taking 120 gm of prednisone each day is a high dose. There are bad side effects. I got aggressive verbally with prednisone, and there are worse physical side effects. Long term this would be terrible. She must find another solution to the problem.
After 2 months of taking prednisone the platelet went up to 120k.
Meantime they also gave her imuran which we think help her on the platelets to grow.now after 2 months of this therapy they started to reduce the prednisone.
After 3 week of reduction the platelets are going down again. Will see next step
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