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Research on COVID 19 vax causing Essential Thrombocythemia?

Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Aug 16 7:23am | Replies (86)
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My 68 year old friend had a pulmonary embolism on 5/18/22. This was two weeks after her second COVID vaccine on 5/6/22. She never had COVID before. After that, her lab tests kept showing high red blood cells. She caught COVID for the first time last year. She didn’t get too sick, but several months later, March 2024, she had a stroke. She had a second stroke on April 2024, and a third in June if 2024. She now has an evolving stroke, August 2024. Dr finally diagnoses her with Polycythemia Vera, a jak2 gene mutation. I believe this occurred after her second vaccination. This should be studied.

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nohrt4me | @nohrt4me | Aug 13 8:50am

Sure. But it's likely her blood tests pre-vax will show abnormalities that indicated PV that the doc didn't catch. This is pretty common with MPN-family cancers: Blood tests start looking a little off in a patient's 50s or 60s. Doc ignores it or chalks it up to age because levels because the results aren't THAT bad. Patient develops a clot. More investigation occurs, and the diagnosis is made.

MPNs are caused by genetic mutations that may lurk without causing symptoms for decades. They typically show up in late middle age.

Researchers are looking at a small subset of patients who develop an MPN in childhood or before age 40.

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