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Persistent immature grans/left shift on CBCs
Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Jul 9, 2019 | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
Are you taking steroids or have inflammatory processes? Either could effect the creation of extra immature granulocytes. I assume you’re not pregnant as that would be other cause. If you are concerned about cancer, there are other blood tests they could run, as well as order a PET scan. Do you have other symptoms like pain or fatigue? It may be just because you have hypergammulobulemia...so your body is just producing more granulocytes which means there would be more immature ones...that is what left shift means. The addition of off platelet counts could indicate something is off in your bone marrow though, a bone marrow aspiration may tell you more. Good luck!
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Hi @ckeys thank you for the response! Greatly appreciate it. I don't take any medication aside from my 65mg iron pills a day. Also you are correct, I am not pregnant 🙂 I am always fatigue but I associate that with my hashimotos. I did have a PET/CT the end of January of this year to see if my Mediastinal cyst was benign or potentially malignant. The cyst came back as most likely benign. But I had a focal and diffuse uptake on my thyroid (did biopsy which came back negative for malignancy but positive for thyroiditis). I also had a diffuse uptake in my bone marrow which said it was suggestive of marrow hyperplasia. My blood doctor said that's from my Thalassemia (shoulder shrug). But yes, my Doctor did also mention that they will consider a bone marrow biopsy should my CBC end of month have no changes in terms of the immature Gran's and platelet counts. So we shall see.