Blood Test Results - Advice

[joko]

I got partial results of a general blood test today - the sec told me the iron was 'abnormal' so i guess i likely have anaemia, and she said the full blood count was 'abnormal' too - but she couldnt tell me what as she said she is just a sec and didnt know.
I am goign in on friday to see the doc - i assume its nothing too serious as they'd presumably have hurried me to come in - they did leave a voicemail but didnt seem in any rush for me to go in and left me to book my own appt whenever.

So just wondering what this meant - does this mean that i have anaemia AND something else - or does the word 'abnormal' next to the words 'full blood count' just basically mean something is wrong and to 'see below for further details' kind of thing, and I only have anaemia?

Other than occasional anaemia i have never had anything wrong in a blood test before - I had a 'full everything' test a few years back and that was clear too.

(NB im 48 and have PCOS, hypermobility - and i suspect EDS and POTS, asthma)

[joko]

also was recently started on Venlafaxine, if that makes any difference.

[Buenchico]

Scroll down to 'full blood count' here:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/blood-tests/types/

[Peter Pedant]

I think you are going to have to wait and see
Modern blood counters now helpfully star the rows with abnnormal results and perhaps noting - abnormal

the secretary wont know more than that

[Mamyalynne]

You haven't enough information to work with, go on Friday and discuss the findings.

[rowanwitch]

One problem may shows as two abnormalities as one affects the other, low iron means you will have less haemoglobin in your blood cells as they need the haem bit that is produced using iron. It's possible if you have any-inflammatory processes going on your white cell count could be higher than normal too.

[joko]

thanks

i did have a couple of little cold sores on my cheek weirdly, so maybe its them, showing up as herpes or something

[douglas9401]

It could also be that, as in other instances, medicine uses a very narrow definition of particular words.
Geriatric mother, occult blood, suffering an insult.
Probably not terms that lay people would use.

If professionals aren't marching down the corridor with coats a-flapping in the general direction of your good self I'd not be too concerned.

[tinkerbell23]

Personally I am wary about reception telling me if results are normal or abnormal- had my fingers burnt with patients who are told bloods are within normal limits... but to a trained eye they are actually concerning

Similarly they may be abnormal... as in the teeniest bit over the normal limits with nothing to worry about but it causes you concern when you cant be reassured!!!

Hope all is well..... i am sure it will be xxx