Hi, @rosew1969 Welcome to Connect…I’m so happy to see you here! Your positivity is infectious with your reply to @ghen in another post!

Thank you sharing your experience with ET and the benefits you’re seeing from taking hydroxyurea. I know it can be disconcerting having to be on a drug classified as a chemotherapy. But these meds can be very valuable tools with helping us to remain active and an healthy when we have a medical underlying issue.

It sounds like you must have been experiencing some pretty serious symptoms that led you to the diagnosis of essential thrombocythemia (ET). If you don’t mind sharing, what type of symptoms were you noticing?