Yes, there was some initial suspicion about medications I was taking Chlorthalidone and Uloric for kindey stone prevention (not that it seemed to help), but I have been off both for 6 moths, so unlikely relationship at this point. As some of you have recommended I will want to get a second opinion on the MDS. My hemotologist for now has struck it from the diagnosis in favor of ITP, but I do want to find out more detail about why the pathologist seemed to think it was clearly MDS with so little hard evidence in terms of blasts or in terms of cytogenetics, so I am guessing it was the look/morphology or possibly the cellularity of the megakaryocytes that was an indication (
http://www.nespath.org/PDF_files/Has...06_lecture.pdf). What does blur all this is the seeming response to Prednisone:
http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/facul...lItemRecord=ON