Hello.
At first I want to apologize, my English skills are not so good (that's because I'm from Finland). My mother was diagnosed with ET in 1987. Before that (in the 70's) she had have problems with her thyroid. Now she's trying to find out what causes essential thrombocytemia. She claims that one of the reasons can be the radiation. There is a few studies made about the effects of background radiation on bone marrow diseases. My mother worked in former Soviet Union when the level of radiation (from nuclear power plant) was very high in the 70's, and her ET was found shortly after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine. The contaminated cloud came to Finland too.
My question is: Has anyone of you thought that your ET ecxist because of the radiation?
I am so sorry that so many people have to suffer from ET. I wish Strength to all of you.
Aya