Hello everyone!

I just got a call from my doctor & she told me that all my tests came back fine except the WBC came back a little high. She said it may be due to having a Urinary Tract Infection. Does anyone know if this is gonna keep me from being able to have my surgery? My surgery is scheduled for August 27th. I cant stop worrying about it cuz ive waited for this & now that everything else is ok i cant imagine that a UTI would keep me from having the surgery! Can someone please set my mind at ease? Thank you!:thumbup:

she should give you a three day antibiotic and all should be fine. Did she not prescribe one?

She didnt prescribe anything yet cuz she wants me to go for an appt. next Wednesday. She is supposed to call me back today to give me any other information. I can ask her to call it in for me today though & she will. She was gonna find out from the Surgeon if it will keep me from having the surgery. Thank you for the reply!!:thumbup:

Honestly I would ask for a urinalysis first before I took an antibiotic. It could be from a UTI but it could also be from a virus or other infection.

Since your surgery is coming up I'd rather be certain about what's going on rather than guessing. I would think if you get further testing now you should be fine by your surgery date.

Hello my white blood cell count was elevated too,but i was able to proceed with the surgery because I didn't have fever. My Dr just told me to follow up with another blood test in 3 months.

My WBC is ALWAYS higher then normal every time I have my blood drawn. Now it could be do to the fact that I have Hashimotos Thyroiditis but the doc said that may just be how I roll..:thumbup: It was high post-op and it didnt stop anything

Thank you so much Kob0630 & Tally23! Yall have definitely set my mind at ease! I have been so worried about that. I was waiting on my doctor to call me back but i guess they got so busy at the office. I do have an appointment with my PCP next Wednesday to do follow up blood work. How are you both doing now since yalls surgery? Hope to hear from yall soon! Thank you both!!:thumbup:

That happened to me before a different surgery (not my band...cervical dysplasia) and they still did the surgery. In fact didn't find out I had the infection until the morning of surgery and they just gave me an IV of antibiotics and prescribed some oral ones for after.

Surgery has been going ok here. I did have surgery. My WBC are still high..lol. They really worry about the WBC when other things in your blood work are out of wack. But when it is your WBC it really doesnt mean a whole lot by itself. I think my abdominal muscles are going to be the last thing to heal- they are still tender... or I may just be a baby..lol

Hey Tally. Im glad everything is going great for you after the surgery. Apparently my WBC was @ 18,000. My A1C was elevated too @ 8.2 but that was because i havent taken my Metformin for 2 months due to at that time my blood work for my kidneys came back elevated too! My doc said not to take it until further notice so they can see what my blood work came out to after 2 months. Well my kidneys & liver are fine now but now my A1C is elevated! I told the nurse that in April i had a Bone Marrow Biopsy done & everything came back negative. So she told me that when i go to see the Anesthesiologist on Thursday to make sure & bring with me a letter from my doctor stating that my WBC is always elevated & tests come back negative & also to state that he sees no problem with me having the surgery. Im so worried that they are gonna cancel it. She did tell me that it will help to get that information from my PCP & the doctor that performed the Biopsy. I just hate for this to be cancelled since ive waited so long for this to happen.