Ask your physician: You may have one of the usually-not-very-serious illnesses in the polycythemia Vera/ essential thrombocytopenia family. More test may be in order
Answered 6/24/2015
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Polycythemias: Your values suggest overproduction in more than one bone marrow cell line. While not currently life threatening, you would be wise to see a hematologist and have a bone marrow biopsy, perhaps also with cytogenetic testing, to look for a myeloproliferative disorder like CML, PCV, or essenthail thrombocythemia.
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