I have (or had, my counts have been good for a while) primary aplastic anemia. It seems to have gone away, but it caused me to develop antiphospholipid syndrome, which might have caused me to develop lupus -- jury's still out on that one.

The aplastic anemia was caused by my psych meds, they think, in particular the Lamictal. They cold-turkeyed me off all of them in the hospital and then only gave me back Effexor and Risperdal, and those at half the doses I'd been at.

APS is a clotting disorder and can cause kidney failure, strokes, heart attacks, blindness and all kinds of goodies.

I'm too bummed out today to try thinking positive.



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