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What type of wbc do anti-anxiety meds affect?

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None: White blood cells are not affected by anti-anxiety medicines, usually. It is true that any medicine can result in an extremely rare idiosyncratic bone marrow suporession -- usually leucopenia. But this would be exceptionally rare.

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Answered 4/24/2015

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