User Reviews - Agrylin Oral
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Reviewer: Gabriel, 35-44 Male on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Patient)
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I have been taking this drug since August of 2003. Since than, I had a sensitive pain on my left side on my spleen, which I was fearing that I may had to go for surgery, luckily I started to watch my diet intake and it healed. Now 2010, My knee, hip and wrist and fingers hurts, like if I had arthritis. I take 6 capsules of 0.5 in the morning and 6 at night with meals each time. Now my oncologist i
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Reviewer: campbell, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 10 years or more (Patient)
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I am 39 years old and was diagnosed with thrombocythemia 17 yrs ago. My platelet count was 1,600,000 when first diagnosed and today it's about 700,000. I was fortunate enough to be in a case study at Yale (given agrylin before it was approved by the FDA and have been on it since then). The biggest side effect that I have experienced is a rapid heart rate and palpitations. I also feel fatigued alot
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Reviewer: lkschafer@aol.com, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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My platelet count went up to over a million four hundred thousand, then the agrylin kicked in and three weeks later my count was down to 700,000. But...the doctor had to up the dosage to 6 - 1mg. per day. Most days I feel yuck, some days have some diarreah. Could this be from the agrylin?
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Reviewer: JUREEN, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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So far agrylin has helped my platelets go down. When I went on them my platelets were
over 900,000, but in two weeks they were down to 618,000. I had no side effects.
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Reviewer: peter, 35-44 on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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effective,but rapid heartbeat sometie
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