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Posted 6/1/2018 12:50 PM (GMT -5)
Off treatment for two years with hopes my immune sys would get better with time and diet only to find my white blood cell count is .02 under normal.

I would guess this is my low T cells and cd-57 (they are part of the white blood cells), dont know though, no current test on my levels of those.

One thyroid antibody still remained under limit (good), so that part is stioll better vs when full lyme was going on..
Posted 6/1/2018 6:56 PM (GMT -5)
Mine is low when on antibiotics...but when I stop for long enough...it goes back in range.

My LLMD said it's because the antibiotics are doing the fighting, but when I stop taking them,the immune system kicks in...and up goes the WBC count



.02 what is the range?


The range on my lab results is 4.0 - 11.0 for total wbc

At it's lowest, it went down to high 2's. After a few weeks of no abx, it went up to 4.2 or 4.3 (i can't remember)
Posted 6/1/2018 10:50 PM (GMT -5)
i also have low WBC when on abx. i will test my blood counts early next week and will let u know. I stopped abx 2 weeks ago ... it should be back up.


Girlie said...

My LLMD said it's because the antibiotics are doing the fighting, but when I stop taking them,the immune system kicks in...and up goes the WBC count

Girlie my LLMD says "while on abx the bacteria dies releases toxins and this affects my WBC". Lol, i do not believe a word of it. Look, almost all antibiotics affect your flora so your immune system gets "lazy". Plus, some antibiotics are directly toxic to the immune cells, like rifamicins... there are tons of papers showing TB people on rifamicins get low WBC...

Post Edited (mpost) : 6/2/2018 1:52:58 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 6/2/2018 12:32 AM (GMT -5)

mpost said...
i also have low WBC when on abx. i will test my blood counts early next week and will let u know. I stopped abx 2 weeks ago ... it should be back up.


Girlie said...

My LLMD said it's because the antibiotics are doing the fighting, but when I stop taking them,the immune system kicks in...and up goes the WBC count

Girlie my LLMD says "while on abx the bacteria dies releases toxins and this affects my WBC". Lol, i do not believe a word of it. Look, almost antibiotics affect your flora so your immune system gets "lazy". Plus, some antibiotics are directly toxic to the immune cells, like rifamicins... there are tons of papers showing TB people on rifamicins get low WBC...

Yah - my wbc count was the lowest on Rifampin
Posted 6/2/2018 4:56 AM (GMT -5)
My wbc is actually higher when I am on 4 antibiotics and lowest when I attempt to decrease. A month ago it was at 2.1 while on 3 antibiotics and it shot up to 3.2 last week once I began a fourth antibiotic. The same thing happened 2 years ago where my wbc actually increased when I added in a fourth antibiotic
Posted 6/2/2018 6:52 AM (GMT -5)
I thought I was told a slightly low white count means your body has a chronic infection that it cant clear
Posted 6/2/2018 11:11 AM (GMT -5)

magoo2 said...
I thought I was told a slightly low white count means your body has a chronic infection that it cant clear

My dr said with chronic infection wbc should be higher
- indicating it’s fighting it.
Posted 6/2/2018 12:16 PM (GMT -5)

magoo2 said...
I thought I was told a slightly low white count means your body has a chronic infection that it cant clear

In the non lyme world, autoimmune can do this and the dreaded C word as well as some other things.

Killer T cells and CD57 cells are also white blood cells. Like many my repeated tests did not go up, so this might be it too. Many people feel better still have low cd57 counts.

I dont discount the cd57 test. Its funny how some opinionated Drs say just ignore it and its false when people cant get this up. Its because lyme damaged their immune system- the hard truth few want to live up to, but its easy to ignore the truth isn't it?

**I don't feel ill, so this need further investigation from real Drs, maybe "hemo" (blood) Drs.**
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