{"id":19998,"date":"2022-06-22T11:06:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19998"},"modified":"2024-08-26T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:42:09","slug":"why-has-my-platelet-count-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19998","title":{"rendered":"Why has my platelet count fallen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>No. A slightly low platelet count will not be the result of acute seroconversion. it would also be likely that you&#8217;d be experiencing a number of symptoms if you were.<\/p>\n<p>Have you had a blood test recently? A platelet count just out of range is not going to cause clinical signs to suggest testing. it is possible that you have a generally lower than normal platelet count &#8211; but this can be normal for you. It just happens that you have discovered this incidentally.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more information about PEP:<br \/>\n<a style=\"font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal;\" href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1724092211850000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3MtZP4p_TZNLaWKIRsumit\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/<wbr \/>factsheets\/pep-faq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Josh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 3 weeks through a PEP course (tested -ve at the start of the course) and I&#8217;ve stupidly (because of insane anxiety) paid for a private blood test which has shown my platelet levels to be just under the bottom range. All other tests are fine. Could an acute\/seroconversion be causing this at such an early stage? I&#8217;ve had no problems for the 3 weeks (other than massive anxiety).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-peppepse","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23891,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19998\/revisions\/23891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}