[evansmom]

ITP ugh...Well the prednisone is taking care of that for now but you'll need to get off of it at some point soon. Maybe they'll give you a course of Rituxan however, before that, I'd like to see them definitively (if it's possible) rule out lupus because if it's a lupus flare, you may not need further treatment and can come of the pred until another flare happens.

It may not be lupus at all, but I did wonder about it earlier as did you with the ssa/ro antibody (highly implicated in lupus) and you'll want to get the right treatment.

The comment before mine was interesting in that her brother's ITP diagnosis was changed to a mild case of lupus.

Talk soon,
Nicole