Hb Blood Test Result

[Eve]

I've just had a nose through my methotrexate blood screening book at last time's results. My white cell count and neutrophils were raised as my GP said - still not sure why with the suspected chickenpox not being chickenpox.

The one which confused me a bit though was the HB result which seems to have gone from consistently just under to just over 14 up to 34.9. My first thought was whether it was a mistake in it being written down as I'd have thought my GP would have picked up on such a jump (unless it's not significant).

Thought I'd see if anyone on here has an idea or whether it is just likely to be tied to the increased white count/neutrophils.

[Sqad]

\\\\still not sure why with the suspected chickenpox not being chickenpox. \\\

I explained why it was unlikely to be chicken pox in your original thread.

\\The one which confused me a bit though was the HB result which seems to have gone from consistently just under to just over 14 up to 34.9. \\

You have got that mixed up somewhere along the line.

[mrs_overall]

That Hb result cannot be right

Mrs O
Graduate
Google School of Medicine

[Eve]

Thanks sqad, I didn't mean I don't understand why not chickenpox, just as it's unknown what it actually was :) Clearing up well now though which is good.

I thought it looked odd. I have a book the nurse who does my bloods fills in (they fill in the results when I go for my next blood apt each time it's done so rhumo can look in it and see each blood thing and the results from week to week in a row), it's a special methotrexate book from rhumatology with all the blood things down one side and kidney stuff etc...

The one that has HB has 34.9 under the result for that for my last bloods, thought it looked strange. Looks likely to be a typo then :)

Does that make more sense?

[Eve]

Yay, thanks Mrs O :) God bless the google school of medicine (shut your ears sqad!).

[LazyGun]

Definitely a mix up. Were that Hb correct,It would most definitely be significant, because your blood would be a viscous sludge, incapable of circulating :)

If that figure is correct, most probably one of the other parameters commonly reported in an FBC - MCH or Hct maybe...

[Sqad]

Ah! wait a minute.........your 34.9 is the mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration...........different from Hb...............that 34.9 is normal.

You are comparing differnt things.

[Eve]

Ah haha :) Well I've survived the last couple of weeks so no sludge for blood here :D

Thanks for that. I haven't seen the one who did my bloods today before, think she might be a new HCA and probably just copied something down wrong. In that case I'll just leave it and ask her to pop the right result in next time.

[starone]

Thank goodness you sussed it sqad I was getting quite worried. All right I know it's nothing to do with me, but there you are - I'm just nosy!!

[Sqad]

starone......LOO.....marry me!

[Eve]

Errrrrrr...

It has ESR, CRP, WCC then HB (then platelets, neuts, lymphs...) down the side. Following across on HB it has 14.3, 13.8, 14, 14, 14, 13.7, 14, 34.9.

I don't know that the mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration is but maybe she mixed up a figure for that then? She calls up the results on the screen and copies the figures down but they always seem to be in different sheets as they tend to click back and forth.

[Sqad]

Eve....................go to sleep!

[Eve]

Sorry, been awake since 3am :(

[LazyGun]

It will almost certainly be the MCHC entered in error, Eve.