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Polycythemia vera
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Also known as: polycythemia · Vaquez disease · blood thickening · elevated erythrocytes · myeloproliferative disorder · PV · too many red blood cells · blood too thick · polycythaemia
Your Body Is Speaking
Your bone marrow is producing too many red blood cells. Not a few too many — massively too many. Your blood grows denser, more viscous, heavier. It flows more slowly through your veins than it should. Headaches, dizziness, fatigue, facial flushing, itching after showering, visual disturbances — the symptoms are varied, but the core is the same: your blood, which is supposed to sustain you with life, becomes a burden. It backs up. It stagnates. It grows sluggish.
Medically, Polycythemia vera is a myeloproliferative disorder — the bone marrow works at full throttle without the body having asked for it. Medicine knows genetic triggers, above all the JAK2 mutation. But the psychosomatic question reaches deeper: What is happening within you that your system believes it must constantly produce more, build more, condense more — until nothing can flow anymore?
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