Please Help. What is happening to me? Do I have too much blood? Am I going to die?

Question

Please Read - I am 24, 6'3", a white athletic male. In 2004 I was diagnosed by a family doctor to have elevated hemoglobin, too much iron and protein in my urine. He quickly thought I had Polycythemia Vera and sent me on to a hemotologist. Two months later when I visited the hemotologist he told me he didn't know what I had but he thought it definitely ISN'T Polycythemia Vera. He strongly urged me to quit smoking and follow up with him. Shortly after I was wrongfully fired from my job and lost my insurance. I stupidly never followed up with anyone from that day on. Still today, 3 years later, I have not quit smoking either. (I have Chantix which I will try in November.) Also, lately weird things happen. I get that "funny bone" buzzing pain in my hands and feet if I squeeze them strangely, like I have too much blood. I sometimes have hour-long sneezing fits that feel "blood-swollen" in my sinuses. I get random itchy "bite"-looking rash marks that disappear in hours. What should I do?

Answer 1

Polycythemia vera is an abnormal increase in blood cells (primarily red blood cells) resulting from excess production by the bone marrow. It is a rare disease that occurs more frequently in men than women, and rarely in patients under 40 years old.
I will take a guess at Persistent Polyclonal B Lymphocytosis therefore give up smoking now.