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I really feel your concerns so let me post my husband's CBC history to see if it will help you.
Since my husband's first detection of his problem in April 2014 (CBC low across the board with platelet at 13), we looked back at his CBC:
2006: everything normal. Platelet 246
2011: everything within range. Platelet dropped to 176
Dec. 2012: WBC low but in range. RBC/HGB low too and out of range. Platelet dropped to 38. Incredibly, neither his doctor nor he did anything about it or seemed to be concerned about it.
Then we were in the dark all these time until April 2014.
You can see it is slow moving. It took us 2 bone marrow biopsies to formally diagnose it "AA" in August 2014. He did h-ATG in September at UCSF. As of 1/2/2015 (3 months post-ATG), his platelet increased to 38 and his last platelet transfusion was the week of Thanksgiving.
Hope this helps.
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