22F Elevated RBCs
I’m 22F. I have severe health anxiety and general anxiety in general. I’m not medicated because I’ve been trying to see if I can manage it myself but recently the anxiety has been flaring severely after an abnormal blood result.
For my job, I got physical 5 months ago and my panel was normal.
RBC: 4.99
Hemoglobin: 12.4
WBC: 6.5
Platelets: middle range normal
Recently, I had another CBC and had
RBC: 6.5
Hemoglobin: 17.3
WBC: 4.2 (within normal range)
Platelets: middle normal range
I feel like I was pretty hydrated the day I was tested but I did have a lot of caffeine. My doctor said that the values are not too abnormal and can be a result of my menstrual cycle, dehydration, a lot of unspecific reasons. They’d recommended a 3 month follow up for blood work which I have already scheduled.
The issue is, is that I’ve begun to mentally spiral. I checked on Reddit and online possible causes and all of them lead to grim outcomes :(. I’m really scared. I feel like my life just started. I will probably look into getting counseling and meds for anxiety going forward. I’m also starting to get kinda depressed waiting to take another CBC in 3 months. I’ve read a lot about various conditions that could explain this and it’s been really depressing