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Scat89
 Post subject: MS and platelet count
PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:45 pm 
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Has anyone ever heard of MS lowering your platelet count?
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Abe
PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:18 pm 
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I pretty sure RBC are raised due to excess iron. Not sure about platelet count...
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NHE
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I have read that elevated platelet counts can be indicative of chronic inflammation, but that was in children with heavy metal contamination. Not sure if this is applicable to MS.

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Here's a report from 2008: Evidence of platelet activation in multiple sclerosis

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No, but MS being considered somewhat of an auto-immune disease many people with MS have higher incidences of all sorts of things. ITP could be one of them. I was pointed towards Copaxone because it does not have any negative effects on platelet count. And from time to time my platelet dips down. So put me in the +1 category for MS and strange platelet counts.
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