Doubts

[worried161]

Hi guys, the reason I wright is that I need someone to help me with a big doubt I have. I had a possible risky exposure 7 years ago. I never tested for hiv (I know is wrong) but I'm still scared like I never was in my life. 2 years ago I had a complete bloodwork because my cardiologist needed to check somethings to see if I had high blood pressure, that I have and I'm medicated for that. At that time my total white cells where 6100 (range 4000 to 10000) and lymphocytes where 33% (range 20-45%). 2 years later, today, I picked up the results of a new bloodwork and the results are total white cells 5500 and lymphocytes 30.6%. The truth is I'm really really scared, first because the total white cells dropped almost 600 in 2 years and the lymphocytes almost 3%. Don't you think the value of white cells is to close to the lower limit? should they be less or is common to have 5500 white cells, what really worries me is how they dropped from the other exam 2 years ago. I repeat it has been 7 years since the possible exposure. I know I have to test but at least I need to know if this could be an indicator of something
Thank you very much in advance for your answers

[googlenut]

Worried, you sound like a hypochondriac like myself. I did the WBC test when I tested for HIV, it was 5.4 from 4-11, I thought I was newly infected and at lower end. 4 months later I tested again andit came back with 6.5, and still HIV nnegative.  Listen to the doctors, as long as you're in the normal range, you are fine, the differential will happen every time you test and it will always be up and down, but that doesn't matter.  Listen, you can sleep like a baby tonight, just walk into a clinic and do a rapid. That simple. Doubt you have anything to worry about if you waited this long. Not worth the stress, just test.

[worried161]

Sorry

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[Webbers]

As you were told already in your other post, you had no risk so all of this WBC business has nothing to do with anything. You have no HIV concern at all.

[worried161]

Thanks Webbers and Medgirl, I know that you are right in what you say. To answer the question about my exposure I'll copy the link below to my previous question

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/Re-post-for-Teak-please--very-worried--big-risk/show/560562#post_3114662

There is the complete explanation of the eposure and answers I recieved. I know hiv test is the only certain thing, but one thing is for sure if you have hiv your inmune system begins to fail and together with that your white cells. that's the reason of my question 5500 isn't it to close to the lower range?
Thanks a lot for your time and answers, really

[Webbers]

White cell count does not tell you anything about HIV status. Only an HIV test can confirm whether you have it or not. Being scared is not a reason to not get tested. You can end all of this speculation and worry by getting tested today. That's all you need to do to put this behind you.