Visit to Rheumatologist

[kingharold11]

Visited Rheumatology clinic last week received a letter today most of the letter is favourable, blood test results are as follows Neutrophilis 8,4 which I don't know what it is rest of FBC,U&E, CRP, ESR, bone profile TSH all normal

[PMRpro Ambassador]

A FBC counts how many blood cells there are in a given volume of blood, both red and white cells. There is a whole range of different white cells. They make a smear on a slide and someone counts the different sorts by looking down a microscope at them. Neutrophils are a sort of white cells and the figure means that 8.4% of all your white cells are neutrophils. Pred tends to increase the number of neutrophils and the figure varies quite a lot from day to day. The range is 1.8 to 7.5% - so yours are slightly higher but that is OK. Your total white cell count is probably also at the top of the range.

[kingharold11 in reply to PMRpro]

thank you PMR pro