Infection found in pre-op testing

[FrancesJ 2]

Hi guys,

I'm two weeks out from my surgery date (which I think will now be pushed back) My ekg & chest X-ray came back perfectly fine. However my blood work, specifically my cbc/white blood count came back 11.3 (slightly elevated) avg is about 10.8. This indicates some sort of infection and my pcp will not clear me unless I get rid of this mysterious infection. I say mysterious because my pcp has yet to uncover where or what is causing the infection. Have any of you experienced this? If so what was the outcome?

[rking 484]

It was discovered I had h pyloric bacteria when I had my EGD. I was scared to death surgery would have to be postponed but it wasn't. Doc just put me on strong antibiotics