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Hydroxyurea is an antineoplastic drug used in hematological malignancies. It is also used as an antiretroviral agent (e.g., against HIV).
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Treatment Success Rate
| Top 5 Communities | ||
| Condition | Members | Success |
| Chronic Myelogenous Leu... | 45 |
91% |
| Polycythemia | 19 |
89% |
| Psoriasis | 6 |
50% |
| Anemia | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 87% (71
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Hydroxurea Reviews
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It helped me when I got diagnosed with leukemia.
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started out on it hoping my white blood cells would go down. worked ok, but now just started using sprycel.
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Slept through most of it! Only on this for just over a month to bring down white cell count. Worked, but was sleeping for around 20 hours a day when taking this. Was glad to come off this and move onto gleevec
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I was diagnosed with three way Ph+ CML in May 2012. I took Hydroxurea for one week with allopurinol. WBC went from 200,000 to 100,000. After one week, I switched to Sprycel.
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original name is ( hydroxyzine HCL ) I used it but I can not remember exactly six years ago I have removed from daily drug list .this drug can not help psoriasis patients .
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started Dec. 6 . Platelets have gone down from 898. to 807. Hydroxurea makes me tired
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been taking HU for 8 yrs..sometimes 1/day, some yrs 2/day, depending on blood counts. Varying side effects.
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I was prescribed this first for 1 month and I was told that my blood count didn't change in that time. It made me very tired,
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so far i'm on hydroxurea and it's working. i'm going on gleevec soon. i've had some mouth sores but otherwise been feeling ok.
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WBC went from 320 to 2.8, so now I'm trying to get it back up between 4 and 11.
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