Hi, this sounds like what happened to my brother when he was 10 years old. He was diagnosed with ITP. Thirty years later, he had an ANA test for the first time and he tested grossly positive for Lupus. There was no test for Lupus when he was 10 and no one had thought of challenging the diagnosis in the meantime.
He is now 62 years old and in good health. He requires no ongoing treatment but does need a platelet transfusion from time to time and a short course of high dose steroids.
There was some talk that the original problem may have been triggered by a course of Sulpha drugs he was given for an ear infection.
Hope this gives you some peace.
Regards
Chirley
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