Clark, I do not know if people with MS have or do not have platelet problems.
Mine are high due to another disease.

However, Dr. Swank, one of the premier researchers on MS, believed we had
sticky blood. I think he thought it was the red cells rather than the platelets which stuck together and didn't move as well as those of others.

He tested my blood years ago, before I had Polycythemia Vera, the disease which has raised my platelets and red cells. He said my blood cells (I presume
red) moved slower than average, and that meant my previous dx of MS was
correct. He believed that eating saturated fat slowed the movement, and put his patients on the Swank Diet, which is one very low in saturated fat. There are two books on it he wrote with his nurse, available at most libraries, or at least they used to be. Well worth reading to find an interesting theory about
MS....I would say, now, a theory applying only to SOME with MS, which seems to have different types.

The Swank diet was VERY helpful in lowering symptoms for me. I can't say it
would do that for you, but I would certainly read the book. Several others on
this forum are in favor of the Swank. I have stuck to it for well over twenty
years, the only exception to it being that I do have an egg yolk almost every
morning. He suggested we have only two eggs per week. I have almost no
red meat--and I had left eating red meat even before I met Swank, as I didn't feel good after eating it.

It could be that there is an inter-relationship among diseases not recognized
by standard medicine. We should have been researchers ourselves in order to even start to understand!

Mariel