I got a call from the surgeons office yesterday saying that my low white blood cell count is low and I needed to get my labs redrawn. My question is, has this happened to anyone else and will it effect my surgery date? i am healthy other than being morbidly obese

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are you feeling ill or did you just get over an infection?

I am not a doctor, but I'd be worried when white blood cells are too high, that means that body is constatnly fighthing - white blood cells are disease-fighting cells.

Also, not all ethnic groups are in the same range of what is consoder to be normal (ie Caucasian women to have white blood cell counts that fall slightly below the normal reference ranges), plus different laboratories classify low white blood cell counts differently.

I am thinking surfeon may be concerned because low white blood cell count puts you at higher risk for bacterial infections... Do not be too concerned, do what he tells you to do, I am sure this is just a precaution.

Good luck!!!

No, I haven't been sick. The only thing I can think of is I might have had pink eye.

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I am not a doctor' date=' but I'd be worried when white blood cells are too high, that means that body is constatnly fighthing - white blood cells are disease-fighting cells.

Also, not all ethnic groups are in the same range of what is consoder to be normal (ie Caucasian women to have white blood cell counts that fall slightly below the normal reference ranges), plus different laboratories classify low white blood cell counts differently.

I am thinking surfeon may be concerned because low white blood cell count puts you at higher risk for bacterial infections... Do not be too concerned, do what he tells you to do, I am sure this is just a precaution.

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That is what I thought. Thank you pinch ok, and good luck to you too!

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I realize this was originally posted a year ago! But I just got some bloodwork back from my general practitioner, and she said my white blood cell count is low. I was just wondering what did your surgeon tell you? Did you have to postpone your surgery? Did they give you advice on how to increase it? I will make an appointment with my surgeon/nutritionist next week, I just wanted to be prepared.

I am supposed to have my surgery in August, currently doing the 6 month medically supervised weight loss.

Thanks and hope everything is well with you.