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Essential Thrombocytosis symptoms

Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Sep 5 1:54pm | Replies (72)

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@lynnevb

I have had headaches and tingling in extremities when I briefly went off the daily baby aspirin. Once i restarted the aspirin all of the headaches and tingling went away. Baby aspirin is to prevent stroke or cell death of major and minor organs. I was told the headaches and tingling are called microvascular ischemia (small vessel inadequate blood supple to an organ). If it goes untreated such as stopping the baby aspirin then blood cannot get to the brain or eyes or vessels of the heart, kidney and other important organs so then a person could have a stroke (decreased blood to the brain), heart attack decreased blood supple to the heart), blindness (decreased blood supply to the eye). I do not want to scare anyone but all of the research states that aspirin is important in preventing problems.
Good luck to you and everyone with this diagnosis.

Here is a document for your review.
https://www.nccn.org/patientresources/patient-resources/guidelines-for-patients/guidelines-for-patients-details?patientGuidelineId=27

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Agree, it is just unfortunate for those of us allergic to it

How important is the aspirin if you are being treated and the treatment has brought blood lab numbers into the normal zone?