Okay so I have my surgery date set for May 30th and on Monday I went and had my EKG and blood work done. Well... last night when I got home I had a message from my PCP doctor to call today. It seems my WBC count was alittle elevated so they had me come back in to re-do it today. I am so worried that this is going to screw up my surgery next week!!!! Has this happened to anyone else?

I don't have my surgery date yet but my PCP has been doing blood tests on me for about a year. My white blood cell count has been elavated and has the doctor scratching his head. I'm on antibiotics right now because of a repiratory infection I got a week ago so I'm hoping that will knock whatever out and bring the count down.

Hopefully everything will come back clear for your surgery. Keep us posted.

I have read of others having an elevated count and their doctor clears them. Someone also posted that overweight people tend to have high counts. I haven't seen any evidence to back that claim up but it could be so.