What are the best treatments for Essential Thrombocythemia?

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Water, the most obvious one, keep hydrated. Take the medication your Doctors / specialists prescribe. Do not over or under dose. If get a temperature, or feel a little strange always check with your GP or specialist. better safe than sorry, especially in the early days of diagnosis. I am on Hydroxycarbamide and Aspirin.

Posted Aug 11, 2017 by Steve 2685

Hydrea - oral chemo to control the platelets
Baby Aspirin to keep your blood thin
Folic Acid to build your immune

Posted Aug 11, 2017 by Nicky 1000

i am using allopurinol and hydroxyurea

Posted Feb 7, 2019 by James 3550

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With a routine blood test my life changed. I had been having severe migraine headaches and I had never had even small headaches really so my Dr. made the decision to test my blood from that to a hematologist and more blood work I was diagnosed. My bl...

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9/28/17, 2:41 PM by Shannon

MY DIAGNOSIS

In 2011 at the age of 42 I was diagnosed with Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (or MPN) and after a bone marrow biopsy, Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) was diagnosed. I am also JAK2+ I take a daily dosis of 1 500mg Hydrea which is an oral chemo and somet...

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8/11/17, 2:39 PM by Nicky

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Routine blood test to check on my iron counts as I also have thalassemia minor, showed platelets at 1mil. In the process of being diagnosed in 2006, had a heart attack (after having a colonoscopy.)I had a heart cath which showed blockage in 2 arterie...

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8/10/17, 7:01 PM by Cobysgram

A RECENT DIAGNOSIS

Last year (winter of 2015/2016) I had a virus and, at one stage, collapsed and was taken to hospital with a suspected heart attack/stroke. I had neither but my platelet level was elevated at over 600. However, the hospital ascribed to the virus and d...

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9/29/17, 9:29 AM by Pat

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Was having trouble with health symptoms which affected my work ethic, a job I loved, so I asked my internist to either fix me or make it so I didn’t care! My symptoms were sudden confusion, dizzyness, a phantom feathery feeling and tingling in my ...

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