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@eansgardengirl

Wow... I love how you put things. "Dealing" not healing. When I see someone say they have numbers at 1 million, and I have numbers in the 570-630 range, It makes me wonder how one goes from the hundreds to the millions so fast. I guess it is something with this disease that I am still learning. It seems that you facing numbers now in the millions, you are still doing well physically? That is encouraging. I do want to note that from the many sites I have been on to research and learn from other ET-ers,.. the symptomology of visual headaches, fatigue, and rare dizziness, is something not only I have experienced, but so have so many others with ET. I don't think it is a coincidence. I am 57, I am very healthy otherwise and very active. I am hoping that when I start HU, I can do a very low dosing... like a few days a week, and find myself with lower numbers. Thanks for your insights.

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The way I understsnd it, if you are 570 to 630 range in reality then you are 570,000 to 630,000. They do not add the zeroes on the lab reports.

Eileen

I looked it up. If your lab says 570-630 range…then you are actually 570,000-630,000.

I read…
A high platelet count is 400,000 (400 x 10 9L). A higher number of platelets is called thrombocytosis. It means your body is making too many platelets.

My LabCorp results show a range range 150-450 x.10E3/ul is normal.

Eileen