my first case of piles

I am guessing piles have nothing to do with ITP. I am also guessing that steroids don't account for them either. In that I first noticed them back in May before I had too many of the things and certainly before I had all the rituximab.

I first discovered them a suspect when first started to do the exercise bike and found if I did much more than half an hour a day they bleed. It cleared up when I learned to do less and forgot about them until this week and found them by pure chance? Doctors next week just to verify since they are my first case.

I am posting it here because on the whole they are another area that people do not talk about and its quite silly since we cannot be blamed for developing them since they are not all that understood.

I am confidently assuming it nothing to do with ITP and confidently assuming it a straight forward case of piles and nothing worse. I haven't lost weight etc so cannot be Chrones. I only wish I had lost weight as I can't shift it.

Anyways just to let you all know the normal things still happen to us that has nothing to do with ITP

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Thanks for sharing!

Good luck at the doctors.

"....am confidently assuming it nothing to do with ITP..."

ITP has been blamed for a lot of things by people who come here but this is the first time I've seen that hemorrhoids was even hinted at as being caused by ITP.

You are right - normal things still happen to us that do not have a thing to do with ITP - you know why? because we are normal

Good luck!

I had hemorrhoids last year. Its not caused by my ITP.
But the medication that doctor prescribed though it helps with the hemorrhoids
it did lower my platelets count during that period.

thanks guys and the platelet warning.