- Location
- Surrey,UK
I've searched the forum but can only see reference to using dexamethasone as a substitute for prednisolone. Has anyone been prescribed a short, sharp, high dose of dexamethasone to try and increase their platelet count prior to an operation or procedure? If so did it :
a) increase your platelets - how quickly and by how much
b) cause any side effects
The reason I'm asking is that as a result of Crohn's I've ended up with a liver problem for which I need a biopsy (12th December) to show the extent of the damage. As a side effect of the liver problem my platelet count is low - 75 (75,000 as measured in US) and the UK clinical limit for a conventional liver biopsy is 80. Hence the need for the dexamethasone.
(This post isn't the right place to explain the whole story of how I got from Crohn's to my present condition but I've drawn a diagram that hopefully explains it - http://goo.gl/blozU)
a) increase your platelets - how quickly and by how much
b) cause any side effects
The reason I'm asking is that as a result of Crohn's I've ended up with a liver problem for which I need a biopsy (12th December) to show the extent of the damage. As a side effect of the liver problem my platelet count is low - 75 (75,000 as measured in US) and the UK clinical limit for a conventional liver biopsy is 80. Hence the need for the dexamethasone.
(This post isn't the right place to explain the whole story of how I got from Crohn's to my present condition but I've drawn a diagram that hopefully explains it - http://goo.gl/blozU)