TF
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If you do an Internet search, you will find lots of lyme boards where folks with lyme have a high wbc. I remember Dr. H. mentioning it in a talk he gave in 2011. It could be an indication that you also have babesiosis, but he didn't come right out and say that.
Anyway, it is not unusual for lyme to cause these types of blood test results. For example, it can cause very high cholesterol levels. When that happened to me, my lyme doc told me not to worry about it.
He said that once I got rid of the lyme, the cholesterol would go down, and it did. It was high!
So, here is just one of the places on a standard online website where it said that lyme could cause an elevated wbc:
"In patients with Lyme disease, the white blood cell count (WBC) can be normal or elevated."
And, this is a site that is lyme illiterate, so all doctors should know that this can happen. I am sure that they are required to rule out leukemia even though they might know that lyme can do this. So, let them rule it out.
However, I would not be going to an infectious disease specialist. No way! I and nearly everyone with lyme have had terrible experiences with such doctors. They are nearly always the enemies of lyme patients.
So, if you like to be abused, go ahead and go. I would be going to someone who is lyme literate and specializes in treatment of lyme disease. ID doctors specialize in denying that a person has lyme disease and saying that people on LymeNet are mentally deranged.
Here is an example of a high wbc count being discussed on another lyme board:
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My white blood count is/was low! My Dr. said that he doesn't understand it but sees it in his other patients.
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TF
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Once you have been on antibiotics for a while, it is common to experience low white count. My lyme doc told me that your body senses the antibiotics and so decides it doesn't need to make white blood cells anymore. (White blood cells fight infection just like the antibiotics you are taking.)
When mine got low, my doc had me take Transfer Factor made from bovine (cow's) colostrum. In 2 weeks my white blood cell count was back to normal. When it happened again, we did the same. The third time, my doc said to just stay on Transfer Factor until I was finished with treatment. So I did.
The Transfer Factor enabled me to continue my treatment without any breaks. I worked almost like a miracle!
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