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I have Essential Thrombocythemia. Started with 3 pills weekly of hydroxyurea, and now at once a day as my platelets were not going down enough. I was told to take in the am with my other meds and vitamins. Gave me diarrhea. I decided on my own to take hydroxyurea in the evening after dinner. Fewer tummy problems. Other than softer stools, not much of an adjustment. I have started to have very vivid dreams, often pretty weird ones, that linger and stay with me after waking. But nothing really frightening. Other than that, so far so good.

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I took your advice and started taking hydrae between 7 pm and 8pm. I split my blood pressure 5mg to take after breakfast, my 80mg aspirin around 1pm and my hydrae around 7 or 8 2 hours before bed. I have slept much better do have weird dreams but, I can deal with that. sometime not all the time feel vague in afternoon I work from home so that works out well. sometimes I notice being forgetful but can come with me being 64 years old and holding down a job managing a lot of staff, so I don't worry just write more things down.