Hello - I was just diagnosed about 3 weeks ago. I have been having palpitations/irregular heartbeat and had a work up. Given my family history, I had a stress test w/exercise and that was fine. However, my bloodwork showed a platelet count of 506. This made me investigate my past blood test results and in 2010, my platelets were 349 and in 2015, they were 494. So, somewhere in those 5 years I pushed past the 400 threshold. Kind of a bummer that I never looked at my bloodwork results in 2015, as I trusted I would have been told if anything was abnormal.
I had a complete blood work up at my hematologist a little over 2 weeks ago and got the results yesterday. I do not have any of the mutations and my platelets are at 484 (from what I have been reading, I guess they fluctuate). I really, really, really like my doctor, as he seems pretty knowledgeable and his bedside manner is something I have never experienced, but he feels that it isn’t necessary at this time to do a BMB. I am taking (well going to start taking) 81m of baby aspirin and have follow up bloodwork in 2 months. I am feeling uncomfortable that he doesn’t feel a BMB is necessary. I feel like I don’t really have a diagnosis since I am triple negative. Honestly, had I asked/insisted I think he would do one, but would my treatment be any different at this point given my bloodwork results?
I hope it’s okay that I am posting a pic of my results. I couldn’t get all of the results in my pic...platelets are 484 as of 2 weeks ago.