Blood results freaking me out!

[Livelifefully]

Looking for support please 🙏 I'm 45, had hysterectomy 2016 due to endometriosis, so 6 months ago when i started feeling rubbish, i thought it was just the menopause kicking my ass again. I usually walk a few miles a day and keep physically busy on our farm. It started off with me getting tired quickly when being active and got worse from there. I have fatigue, muscle weakness, memory fuzzy and a few headaches for no reason. Been to doctors and had tests done for blood, urine and faeces. I see the doctor on Tuesday. In the mean time, I've gone through my results and scared myself silly. What's worried me the most is my hemoglobin 16,7 and hematocrit is 50%. So I've done the usual, and checked Google, that's come with possible Polycythemia. That's serious illness, if that was the case then i would surely be losing weight and that isn't happening. I can't unread any of that now and it's driving me crazy 😔

They’re only very slightly above the normal range. Being a bit dehydrated when bloods are done can make Hb and Hct a bit high (‘relative’ polycythemia). Relax, stop googling & see what your GP says.

Thank you, I'll try do that. It's tough being ok when I feel rubbish

You saw your doctor 2 days ago, what was their diagnosis? Presumably they’re not concerned about your bloods.

If you look at your results with a magnifying glass and google worst case scenarios, of course you’re going to worry yourself for no reason. It sounds like health anxiety.

Exh has polycythaemia, for him the first signs some twenty plus years ago were raised platelets, it's only as time has gone on that the disease has developed that his blood count has become abnormal. His blood count is low because his red blood cells are large and as a consequence there are fewer of them. He hasn't lost weight despite being on chemotherapy for fifteen years. Stop googling, when exh had the first signs something was wrong they repeated his blood tests twice, if the GP has sent you on your way then they aren't and your levels aren't too far outside of normal.

I love in Portugal and you get bloods done at a separate clinic. The results are emailed to the patient then the patient passes it onto the doctor. I received my results yesterday and have an appointment to discuss results with the doctor on Tuesday, hence the googling

@Livelifefully hi I know this is an old thread but how are you? Did you get to the bottom
of this? X