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What are most common side effects when starting HU (Hydroxyurea)?
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I am 82 years old. My platelet count had been slowly increasing and a year ago my primary doctor referred me to a hematologist. I was diagnosed with ET and the JAK-2 gene mutation. I have often wondered how I acquired it. I had a blood transfusion in 1977 and also had Covid shots.
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"How I acquired it" -- that's the baffling question. No one knows the answer.
A broken bone, anyone can understand. Bone marrow going haywire -- huh? Such fun to live with a medical mystery.
I'm no expert, just someone else with ET, but I hope you will stop worrying about whether those Covid shots "caused" your cancer. ET has been around for a long time. It was recognized as a blood disorder/cancer more than a hundred years ago. And as you know, there were no Covid shots back in the 1920s.
Alas, the possibility of "catching" ET from a blood or organ donation has NOT been ruled out.
That's why, upon diagnosis, I stopped donating blood. And I also have removed the "organ donor" designation from my driver's license.
I hope the hematologist is providing you with excellent care!