I am 51 and I am low risk. I was told by an oncologist that until I reach age 60, have a stroke or reach platelets over a million I would be put on medication. I was taking baby aspirin only at first. My platelets reached over a million. I went back to oncology and saw a different doctor, since mine retired, He gave me the choice to start Hydrea or wait. He had said that there were studies with follow up of 10 years,whether people treated by observation, aspirin, cytoreductive therapy alone or aspirin with cytoreductive therapy there were only 2 arterial thrombotic events, and one venous thrombotic event. I chose Hydrea and have been on it for almost one year. My platelets went down to 445,000 and no side effects.

Hydrea