[Hippie]

Was recently in hospital for a week and it was awful since I don't like being away from home.
The doctors wanted to keep me longer because my white count kept going up. I argued that I was getting sicker by having to stay there. I was discharged & lo and behiold my white count returned to normal.
Are docs at all aware of how fear can inhibit cure? Was soooooooooo frustrated trrying to get out of hosp.

Glad you are better.

Originally Posted by Hippie

Was recently in hospital for a week and it was awful since I don't like being away from home.
The doctors wanted to keep me longer because my white count kept going up. I argued that I was getting sicker by having to stay there. I was discharged & lo and behiold my white count returned to normal.
Are docs at all aware of how fear can inhibit cure? Was soooooooooo frustrated trrying to get out of hosp.

This is interesting about the high white blood cells.I was in the hospital about a month ago.They told me I had a high white blood cell count.I also did not like being there.My anxiety level got worse seeing so many aggressive patients.
I practically begged them to let me out.

[Hippie]

Thank you all for your support.

Still feel anxious about what-if. What if I ever have to go back into the health care system and get a doctor(s) who don't understand anxiety? Wish all medical personel had a least one class lecture on this.
Sardean, did your white count go down after being discharged?
Does anybody out there know if this is common among anxiety prone patients?

I really don't know if it did.They didn't take any more blood.

Originally Posted by Hippie

Thank you all for your support.

Still feel anxious about what-if. What if I ever have to go back into the health care system and get a doctor(s) who don't understand anxiety? Wish all medical personel had a least one class lecture on this.
Sardean, did your white count go down after being discharged?
Does anybody out there know if this is common among anxiety prone patients?

[Hippie]

Am going to ask on site doctor about this.

[Perna]

I was in the hospital a week because of my high white cell count (really bad infection) and on antibiotics to get it down. I hated it in there there (don't know anyone who likes it :-) and had a couple really bad things happen to me, etc.

They didn't understand the infection so didn't get the white count to stay down. I had to figure out what med I needed and solve the problem once and for all three months later.