[curlygirl]

When my son was first in the hospital with what turned out to be AA he had a high esinophil count. They think it was an autoimmune response to the virus he had that gave him the AA. He would get better than worse, make blood, then stop, make platelets, then stop. About a month later everything bottomed out. The doctors think we actually hit the hospital as his AA was starting and his body was trying to fight it off and did a pretty good job, but just couldn't do it. A month into it they decided on the AA diagnosis. As his respiratory virus ended the esinophils went down and the lymphocytes & monocytes shot up. His bone marrow biopsies haven't shown other autoimmune diseases in them. I don't know how the high esinophils may be related to your ferritin problem but in our case the high esinophils proceeded my son's AA. Good luck!