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High Factor VIII (8) Blood Clotting Disorder and its Impacts on life

Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Sep 10 9:49am | Replies (133)
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@colleenyoung

@carriebythesea, how are you doing? Did you and your care team get to the bottom of the bleeding issues?

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carriebythesea | @carriebythesea | Sep 6 10:54pm

Hi Colleen,

We're still working on it. I'm not any anticoagulants right now until we know more about what's going on.

Part of it appears to be the aging process and I'm not taking hormone replacement because of clotting risk. Not doing so seems to be causing some other issues in my particular case.

My iron level is OK per tests last week, and the spotting is intermittent and less than when I was on the Xarelto.

Drs are looking for another underlying condition that is causing the problem, so I'll know more in about a month.

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