my symptoms are fluctuating wbc,extreme fatigue,abdominal pain,diagnosed Arnald Chiari type I malformation,history of colon polyps,and mother died of cancer at age 42. I am a 35 yr. old father of 4 and about to complete my engineering degree (beter late than never). many many(including Jacksonville Mayo Clinic) doctors only scratch their heads.WBC fluctuates at wrong time.can you help me or point me in the right direction,before my educational efforts are in vain and my children are left fatherless and my wife a widow?my WBC gets as low as 1.2 and stays around 3.2 to 4.0.

I am interested in your symptoms as they seem to mimic whats going on with me. Well sorta.. Had dizziness last week, nothing severe, just a kind of oops better grab on to something and steady yourself verses the room spinning out of control kind of dizziness. Went to the doctor and they did a cbc which came back with a high wbc. It was 17,400 the first day. He seemed concerned that other than the dizziness and the high wbc I didnt seem symptomatic. He advised I go back the next day and repeat the cbc, which I did. The next day it had elevated to 21,600 and he was even more concerned. He wanted to have me admitted to the hospital but after I urged him not to, ( its Easter weekend here when all that happened...) he agreed to let me go home but wanted me back the next day, Thursday the day before Good Friday, to repeat the cbc yet again. Well when I went back it had gone up to 30,800 and he refused to be talked out of admitting me into the hospital. Spent the night at Johns Hopkins and seem to have every doctor I have seen thus far scratching their heads in bewilderment. I have developed a pain in the left upper abdomen but it isnt severe or even really worrysome to me. More of an ache. No kidney infection or anything. I spent the night in the hospital and was released the next day, yay got to go home and spend easter with my kids :) but was told I had to go back to the doctor and have the cbc done yet again on Monday. I just got back from the test and low and behold the wbc has dramatically fallen to 6,000. I dont get it. Talk about from one extreme to the other! So glad to see it though as the word that had been tossed around for me was leukemia. CLL to be exact. So such a drastic fall in my wbc would surely rule something like that out dont you think? I sure hope so. Anyhow, I would be interested in seeing anything you might come up with on your end... thanks for posting!