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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
Important note on this diagnosis — This text offers a psychological interpretation. With a cancer or tumour diagnosis, medical treatment belongs in the hands of physicians. BodySignal accompanies you in understanding the inner side of your symptom and complements medical care.
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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