Connect
← Return to Any Success With Natural Treatments for Essential Thrombocythemia?
Discussion
Any Success With Natural Treatments for Essential Thrombocythemia?
Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Mar 3 8:07am | Replies (59)Comment receiving replies
I am also on a baby aspirin and Hydrea 500 mg. I take that on MWF. In September I started taking CBD gummies and I felt much better. Seems it helped with the Hydrea side effects. I had been taking them 2-2.5 weeks before I went for my blood draw on. 9/25. Platelets were in the normal range but the high end of normal. Hematologist said it would not do me any good to take CBD it would not lower my platelets. I stopped taking the CBD that day, I went back today and they were 495 and the only thing that had changed was the CBD. I go back on 11/30 if they are still at 495 or higher I am going to go back on the CBD and see what the next blood draw shows.
Praying you find your answer.
Replies to "I am also on a baby aspirin and Hydrea 500 mg. I take that on MWF...."
I just received my official diagnosis today & have an appointment on the 26th of this month to discuss starting hydroxyurea. My sister in law & brother are licensed to grow & sell himp & produce CBD. One is a OB/GYN & the other has a PHD in biochemistry. They have both suggested that I try CBD before the hydroxyurea. I'm not afraid to try theirs since I know how its produced & she only uses coconut oil to mix it with. They know that I tend to be sensitive to a lot of medications out there. I'm definitely interested in what you find out.
Connect
Well, that is interesting because I was wondering just the other day if CBD might help me, then I just forgot about it. So, your platelets were 495 when you stopped the CBD, but what was your platelet count when you were taking the CBD? You said high end of normal, what is high end of normal? Just trying to see how much it might have worked. Do your platlet numbers fluctuate much anyway or are they pretty much the same every time you get a blood draw?