I have ITP and MDS. The ITP is what affects my platelets. I have had this for 7yrs. I am low risk MDS. my platelets run around 33 to 40and no treatments. They have even dropped to 20 when I had an infection and put on rounds of antibiotics. I take papaya leaf extract and wheatgrass and it brings my platelets up. You can find them on Amazon. Also papaya leaf tea. So
It is a slow progress but that’s ok. I need hip and knee surgery so they tried platelet transfusions and they didn’t work. They put me on steroids and my platelets shot up to 80 and I still wasn’t finished the steroids. I had 2 days left out of 5. So I can have the surgery. That is when they diagnosed me with ITP. Not a fan of steroids but will take them for surgery and then stop.