Hi all, My name is Angela

Hello @angelard, and welcome to Connect. I moved your discussion and combined it with an existing discussion with many active members on Chronic Pain and medical marijuana. If you are replying by email I suggest you click on the VIEW & REPLY button that will take you in to the long discussion so that you can meet the other members discussing medical marijuana.

angelard IF you live in a state where medical pot is legal, I don't see what you would have to lose. I would ask the pot doctor for his opinion regarding your platelets.

MY platelets were down to 12. My Hematologist prescribed Promacta raising platelets to 100+.

@cappysmith My goodness, 12! When mine went down to the 40s I thought that was terrible. Now, post transplant, they are still lower than the desired range, this post week my lab work showed them to be 106. I was supposed to have knee surgery a few years ago, my platelets were running low so my hematologist put me on prednisone to bring the count up. It did, but then on the day of surgery they plummeted again so the surgeon had to call the surgery off. I am finally scheduled to have that surgery in October.
JK

Hello @cappysmith, I see you have been a member for a year and this is your first post, thank you for joining the conversation. If you are comfortable sharing, what was the cause of your platelets being so low? We do have a hematology group and page here on Connect if you are interested.

I wish you well with yourOctober