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Treatment For Artery Calcification 3 months 1 week ago #73016

Carducci7292 Offline Posts: 80 Thank you received: 9	I have been diagnosed with a high level of calcification in my heart arteries. Treatment may include statins. I have been receiving N Plate injections weekly for about 3 years and my counts have remained above 100,000 with a few exceptions. Has anyone had experience with statins and if so did they have a negative effect on platelet count? Thank you for responding.
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Treatment For Artery Calcification 3 months 1 week ago #73017

MelA Offline Posts: 1106 Karma: 2 Thank you received: 367	A statin has done nothing to my platelet count. Personally I'd rather have a drop in platelet count than a heart attack! I wish you well!! "Instead of wasting your time worrying about symptoms, just get it checked out" -Nieca Goldberg, MD
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Treatment For Artery Calcification 3 months 1 week ago #73018

mrsb04 Offline ITP since 2014. Retired nurse. My belief is empower patients to be involved as much as possible in their care. Read, read, read & ALWAYS question medics about the evidence base they use. Posts: 2116 Karma: 7 Thank you received: 608	I agree with Mel. Statins have had no effect on my count either
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Treatment For Artery Calcification 3 months 3 days ago #73022

Chad89 Offline Diagnosed with ITP in 2007 at age 18. Posts: 79 Thank you received: 16	Carducci, good morning. Have you done much research on vitamin K2? There are quite a few medical studies out on the effects it has with removing calcium from places it should not be (like arteries) and transporting it places it should (like bone). Start researching Vitamin K2 if you get the chance.
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Treatment For Artery Calcification 2 months 4 weeks ago #73023

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Chad I think I'd rather take something like that to ward off the artery calcification instead of taking it after the calcification is already there.

Why I'm saying this is - a friend has osteoporosis, she was on fosamax for 5 years and was then taken off it, she did not want to take anything else so the endocrinologist told her to take Alive which is plant based calcium and other stuff - well she is now using a walker due to a couple compression fractures one is T12 and I can't remember the other one. No problems while on fosamax but once off it and on plant based calcium she got the compression fractures. As soon as she told me she had the T12 compression fracture I knew it was due to osteoporosis and not taking proper med to help and her surgeon told her the same thing.

"Instead of wasting your time worrying about symptoms, just get it checked out" -Nieca Goldberg, MD

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