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Default Mar 26, 2022 at 02:37 AM
 
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My mom has polycythemia. her body makes too many RED BLOOD CELLS.
She has to get "bled" a couple of times then she will be at normal. They can't figure out what is wrong with her.She developed it a couple of years ago.she is 83.
please let me know if this is what you have and what are the dr's are saying about it.
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@bizi the hormones I am taking are causing my blood to thicken and my hematricrit levels to rise. I also have a high red blood count but they just seemed concerned about the hematricrit. They didn't call it anything, just said it was fixable by giving blood whenever the level got high again. In order for me to stay safely on the hormones this is what I'll need to do I just don't know how often. I'll get blood work done regularly and see the blood doctor regularly too.

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