LOW LEUKOCYTE LEVELS

    FIRST THERE WAS JOY, THEN THERE WAS FEAR AND NOW THERE ARE JUST QUESTIONS.. OKAY GANG, I GOT BACK SOME BLOOD TESTS TODAY AND MY WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNT IS LOW. 3900. THE RANGE IS 4000 TO 10,500, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN NOW? NOT A GOOD THING.  SORRY TO BUG YOU about THIS DOES ANYONE KNOW THE SIGNIFICANCE?

 please excuse my melodramatic post on this title post, really it was late and i was tired, i panic easily. after checking into a bit of info, i found my last blood work and my level of white blood cells has dropped since early this year by 800, so after rreading a post my dr. sent me about fish oil, i am going to stop taking it for a month and do the bllod count again. i was taking too much i think and it can lower your white blood cell count.

maybe you should read this http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/03.17/11-whitecells.html

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CR Blood results http://www.matthewlake.plus.com/results.htm

DG..it is sooooooo normal to panic and look more into things than we should.  Afterall, we are entitled.  I read recently that those who have been diagnosed with a life threatening illness (and they mentioned heart disease) it is normal to be alarmed at new health events.  It is called PTSD (post truamatic stress syndrome) and we re-live the trauma in so many ways.  I do this too.  Yes, get the CBC tested again next month after being off the fish oil.   Good Luck to you. 

 wow, whoa, that was a very uplifting article, thanks so much for having that for me to read. i should be very comforted by that, thanks again.   Ellie, you are so sweet, thanks for your post. in many ways you feel almost numb when you think there might be something else wrong with you.  wow again, thanks whoa