yes, i think you got lucky there with your covid outcome with that ratio being as high as it was. without a doubt that raised your ratio. it will be interesting to see what it goes down to now. i would ask for a c reactive protein test the next time they take blood for you also.

it sounds like you might have small fiber neuropathy, due to your symptoms and that it moves around to different areas of your body. if it is, it won't show up on an emg/ncs, so don't get discouraged if that testing proves to be negative , get a skin punch biopsy to test for small fiber neuropathy.

you also may not have one cause for your symptoms. There could be a synergy effect with long term alcohol use, lack of proper nutrition if you werent eating correctly while you were drinking at higher levels, and possible pre diabetes from long term high normal sugar levels.

Something intersting here. I had a previous ER visit where they only found low potassium. They treated that and they sent me on my way. That was 2 weeks before the reading and they did some blood work there as well. During that time my WBC was high at 14.37 and my neut was at 9.43. However, the % was 65.6/26 which is only 2.5 No idea what caused my WBC to be raised during that visit. I'm not sure if low K can cause that. But with the readings I posted my WBC was within normal range even though my neut was high.

There's a company online I've used to test for some vitamins that my doctors didn't test for and they have tests available at pretty cheap prices. I'm going to order some for Wednesday. Besides the c reactive protein and CBC is there anything else I should look into testing? At a minimum those would see if there's still some inflammation going on. If the increase was caused by covid it should be better by now.

i would see how your emg/ncs comes out and if you have a skin punch biopsy to detect small fiber neuropathy, which i highly recommend, and then to go from there depending on the results of those tests.

Ok yeah I’ll do that. It’s only a bit over a week out so it’s not long to wait.

EMG came out clean which was kind of expected. I'll probably get a call from the neuro early next week about possible next steps. Been having some dizziness that came back lately that is likely covid related but I'm not sure. It was hard to take a shower for a while without getting super dizzy but started improving once my symptoms reduced especially once the congestion eased up. I was fine for a week or so but now it came back. Could be related to everything that's going on with me and covid just exasperated it but who knows. Reading online looks like it's not that uncommon. Trying to not google symptoms of anything and just see what the doctors say to try to give the anxiety a bit of a break. Thankfully my yearly physical with my primary doctor is in about 10 days so I can bring it up then if it's still happening and if I don't see my neuro by then.