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My first question would be -- has he been diagnosed with any coinfections? From most of the reading I have done low platelets are more common with babesia and possibly ehrlichia/anaplasma or rocky mountain spotted fever or maybe even bartonella than from lyme.
My guess is that the increase in platelets is causing hypercoagulation. This could lead to headaches and eyepain.
Don't know anything about the med you have listed.
Hubby has had his platelets drop to a low of 135 I think and then increase to 300 within a couple of weeks this year. They keep jumping around all over the place since he has been diagnosed with anaplasma and RMSF and had sepsis from serratia marcescens.
The other possibility is that the platelets he does have are clumping together. Hubby had one blood test that they could not get a platelet count due to them clumping together. I think I put him back on vitamin e which seemed to help with that.
Many lyme patients have hypercoagulation. The best test for that is from hemex lab. It is the ISAC panel -- immune system activation of clotting.
But I do think that many of the things that decrease the hypercoagulation could be contraindicated in someone with low platelets.
I think the first thing to do would be to make sure he has been adequately tested for coinfections. Then I would probably order the Hemex test before adding any supplements.
Good luck.
Bea Seibert
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