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I went to Dr first time last Friday for what I thought was a flu. I have headaches, diarrhea, fatigue, very sore joins and hot fashes along with a fever. I was tod I had fluid behind ears and glands in neck were swollen. I was prescribed nasal spray and zpack. I take nasal spray as directed and have already finished entire zpack. I went back to Dr today and got blood brawn and found WBC over 15000. I have to go back in a week to get another CBC but I was wondering what this could mean
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Sorry to hear that you are not feeling well. A white count of 15,000 (with a white count being slang for elevated white blood cells, or WBCs) is often a sign of an infection, as most labs will have a normal value that is somewhat less than that. Many things can cause this leukocytosis (which is another way to describe an increase in white blood cells), but most commonly it has something to do with an infection.