I know this is an old post but I'm so glad to know I'm not along with this same symptom. Along with petechia, hot flashes are one of my tells that my platelets are low. I'm 47 and have been fobbed off for the last 6 months, since diagnosis that 'it's just the menopause'. To be honest I've find it quite ageist, they wouldn't be saying this if I was 37 and I only get the hot flashes when my platelets drop. Plus I've been tested, I am definitely not going through the menopause, FSH 4.6 and my estrogen is high The curious thing is they were worse before I had an IVIG treatment and up until very recently were only what I could describe as hot head 'washes'. I too have had no explanation from the Hematologists, in fact I think they are fed up with me talking about my hormonal symptoms as it's not their 'department' even though it's absolutely tied into my platelets being low.
Has anyone had any joy with an explanation of why and if you don't mind me asking are you ladies also around menopausal age?