The Petechiae

I am not super optimistic about Tuesday’s platelet check since I noticed Petechiae this morning on my stomach.

Within an hour, my sister-in-law pointed out that there were some on my arm as well.

Usually Petechiae is a sign of low platelets. I’m not sure if the drop in platelets can be linked to one particular cause, though. It’s probably a combination of the bottle of wine I had this weekend, the 40mg dose of Prednisone instead of 50, the change in medication (Sertraline), or any other number of things. I’m not going to let myself feel guilty between now and Tuesday thinking this is solely related to the wine when I had way more last week and my platelets weren’t affected at all.

I’m not sure what the doctor will want to do. Hopefully I’m just paranoid and he will tell me the rash is due to an unrelated cause/event and my platelets are fine. Back when I was having more than half a dozen bloody noses in a week, I thought my platelets had gone down then, too, but they had gone up, so I’m going to try my best not to self-diagnosis or worry too much.