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Platelets are too high: What can be done to find root cause?
Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: May 12 6:04am | Replies (38)Comment receiving replies
You are absolutely correct on doctors taking time before they can figure out the problem with raised platelets. I have been seeing my GP since March this year. Several test done. Today he rang me in and told me CARL Exon 9 Mutation and JAk2 V617F Mutation have been detected in my blood sample. He said i have ET but she needs me to do a bone marrow biopsy before he can put me on medication. My platelets have been rising since 2021 and today reading was 848. She asked me to return in 3 weeks time for the bone marrow procedure. In the meantime she put me on 100mg aspirin.
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I am on aspirin as well. I read somewhere that if bone marrow biopsy didn’t show anything and all other blood work and scans ultra sounds didn’t show anything it would be a fluke if they found the cause
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Yes, took from March to November to get my firm diagnosis. Later, when the CALR test was available, I had that to confirm my driver mutation.