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Reviewer: phinai, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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For lowering my high blood platelets. I take 1 capsule 2x a week, and the last time I took it caused me to become very tired that it kept me going to sleep and kept me waking up through the night because it was exhausting my breath. I was running out of breath and then woke me up so many times to catch up with breathing.I got scared and fought myself against sleeping until the side effects wore
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Reviewer: pak4u, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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Treatment for polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia, 2+years after initial side effects, doing relatively well. (Although I catch just about every cold that is out there)
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Reviewer: lenber1951@tampabay.rr.com, 75 or over Male on Treatment for 10 years or more (Patient)
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Hydrea has controlled my Myelofibrosis for 10 years
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Reviewer: Nikki, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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This drug caused me too many side effects that I had to stop it.Daily migraines,blurred vision,distorted vision.It was however somewhat effective initially then stopped being effective.
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Reviewer: mahcat, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Patient)
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Although I am concerned about the side effects this drug works well for my condition (Et) No side effects
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