Clopidogrel

[Mal42]

Hello, so good to have this forum. I am struggling with pv. My levels are up and down like a yo yo as are the amounts of hydroxy I take, plus I’m back on venesections. I am fatigued as always and my blood pressure is high despite meds. Though for some reason this morning it went down to 119/76 from 155/85 and higher often. I am hypothyroid on thyroxine and trying to get ft3 blood test to understand more what is happening there. Aspirin makes me bruise spontaneously so take judicially. Have been given clopidogrel, I really don’t want to add to my med load, will it be of help have some information from you experts. thank you. Mal

[Tico]

Hi Mal42, yes i'm on Clopidogrel,it was prescribed to me in 2015 while on the stroke unit by my stroke consultant as she said it was better than Aspirin which I was taking with the Hydrea at the time but I also bruise spontaneously and at the moment my legs look like i've been kicked by an horse,so I think its the nature of Mpn's unfortunately. Atb,tina.🤗

[Jenny_F]

I swapped from aspirin to clopidigrel and my periods stopped. When I was having tests my blood was clotting far too quickly so I swapped back to aspirin. I also did an online dna test and weirdly it said that I was genetically insensitive to clopidigrel.