i am a 24 yr old female i have been sick for almost a month. i am having pain in my upper stomach under my ribs. i have seen a GI doctor and everything is normal. all my blood work is normal but i have an elevated white count, the last time is was checked it was 15 thousand. the other blood work showed no signs of infection, or inflammation, and no cancer cells. it is still a possiblity of lukiemia
Pain under the ribs with high counts. Let's not jump into leukemia straight away. You might have a hepatitis, cholecystitis. Best thing is to look at the counts again with differential counts and a peripheral blood smear. We will follow the counts and get the sonogram of the belly and if count won't settle get a marrow. Leukemia would have given you a low Hemoglobin and low platelets too... So is unlikely but will still be kept into the mind,