Total WBC rising all the time....
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Hi everyone
Just thought I would come on here for some advice or support as I quite literally think I might go insane from all this stress!
I have a chronic cough in the night time, waking me, Dr has given me a high dose of PPI's which helped the coughfor a bit but it has started all over again over the last few evenings. During the day my throat is scratchy and just tight so I am not feeling wonderful, more annoyed than anything else really... This has been going on since January this year
BUT, yesterday I went to Emergency as the left side of leg under the knee protruding to the right side has a swell or puffiness if you like, the DR reckons its probably fluid retention but to make sure she did a serious of DVT pathway blood tests including kidney. liver and FBC (I have had several DVT's and PE's), the D-Dimer test was normal and everything was basically normal however I noticed my WBC on the screen which has shot up from 7.2 (reading in December 2016) to 8.9 yesterday WTF is going on? Can anyone shed some light? I am now 100% convinced I have lung cancer or some cancer growing else where!!!!!!
I am going back to the Dr next week.....
Can you please help me calm down []
Thank you
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sweetmelissa kay19801
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Really .. you should not worry about the slight increase of WBC's. Our blodd cells of all types are constantly changing. If it was a dramatic increase then there should be further investigation at the cause, but your is so slight, it is nothing to worry about at this time. It could be normal for the body, or there is also the possibility that your body id fighting a slight infection, by the sounds of your symptoms. There are germs everyday that our bodies come across and our WBC's fight off, most we never even know about and never even have symptoms. Being you do have symptoms though.. if there is no improvement, your doctor should do a complete blood cell count retest, to make sure that your body is getting better and not worse. Oh.. and at this point, try not to worry about lung cancer, as your bloods would be all wacky, and there not, if it was something more sinister. Do you smoke? If so, it's very normal to have a constant cought, as it is actually a good thing. It is your body trying to get rid of the garbage in your lungs and cleaning them out. I do smoke and this consant annoying cough. If you don't smoke, as I mentioned before, your doctor should and will probably be doing a retest to keep an eye on WBC's.. that's only if you remain symptomatic or for your peace of mind, as most doctors would not even consider your slightly raised WBC count anything to worry about. Also.. again, please try not to stress about cancer, as it seems all your blood work is in normal range. If it was cancer, your blood work would show an indication of cancer and it did not. I hope I was able to help ease your mind...
kay19801 sweetmelissa
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Hi there
WOW - thanks for replying to me, I am so scared I have a slow growing cancer and that is why my WBC's are increasing with every blood test I have had, one of my friends said that WBC's are normally very very low or very very high with cancer and mine like you said for now is slightly increased but still normal, thank you.
I am going back to the Dr next week and going to mention it to him and try and get this cough sorted - I used to smoke but stopped 5 months ago, I have had a chest xray also and that was normal, just scares me cancer does and now i have a normal WBC but raised by 1.5 times more than the last time
- thank you for replying to me I really appreciate it
sweetmelissa kay19801
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