Hi! I have just had a routine blood test and the results are very strange: RBC count: 7.04 mil!!!, MCV: 54fl!!!, HGB: 12.2g, HCT:37.9%, MCH: 17.3 pg!!!, RDWcv:17.4%, normal platelet and WBC counts, and everything else measured normal except a lower calcium. In this test there were NO Iron measurement or the other substances like feritin and so on...Of course these will be measured in the following tests. But I am very anxious by now what this could be, because my doctor seems very confused, and I read all I could read in the medical books, and on the Internet, but couldn't find a disease with such strange combination of values. I was always considered anemic and was 'weaker' and thiner than the average males, but hadn't a RBC count since childhood, now I'm 27 but the last time I had such a test was 11 years ago, but at that time only these values were measured RBC count: 3.75 mil., HGB: 11g. and told to eat food with many Iron, that was all. In my childhood I always had low hemoglobin, but also low RBC count, not like now,very high. So could someone have an idea what this could be? Obviously I seem to have microcytic RBC, but why are they so many? If it were iron deficiency shouldn't they be in low number? I don’t live at high altitude, in the family there are no strange diseases like hemoglobinopathies or sideroblastic anemia and I don't feel worse, only the same weakeness since I know myself, neither have no other serious diseases (at least I don't know) only a cronic rhinitis ( I cannot breath well on my nose, and when I wake up I'm always with open and dry mouth) and my doctor says that this could lead to hipoxemia ( especially beacuse this test was very early in the morning), and this combined with iron deficiency could give these results. I would be very grateful if you have some ideas, of course as I said...there will be further investigations but until then I am VERY anxious, because in my country, especially now that many medical staff are in vacantion, these tests are 'moving' very slow, if you know what I mean .