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#82419 - 12/18/07 10:57 PM Do you know your Sed Rate?
cassilynn cassilynn Registered Visitor Registered: 09/30/07 Posts: 835 Loc: Indiana	Mine was 20..... I read in another thread that 30 was used in a diagnosis, I was always told that 70 is high, not 20-30????? Anyone have thoughts?? Or know what theirs is? Cass _________________________ Cassilynn
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#82420 - 12/19/07 02:54 AM Re: Do you know your Sed Rate?
astrologynut astrologynut Registered Visitor Registered: 03/07/07 Posts: 716 Loc: United Kingdom	I have no idea what my sed rate is at the moment but thankfully the rheumatology department here where I live has started handing out booklets to those of us on anti-tnfs so we can keep a permanent record of all our blood results. When I was 14, shortly after my first iritis attack had died down (after 3 months treatment) I was ill with some kind of infection, my joints were very painful and I had a sed rate of 43 which the doctor said was high for a teenager. _________________________
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#82421 - 12/19/07 05:21 AM Re: Do you know your Sed Rate?
Merlin Merlin Registered Visitor Registered: 01/24/07 Posts: 2302 Loc: Florida	Mine went up to 60 something, prior to treatment. Now it is down around 15. I don't know what is considered high. _________________________ Lisa K. "Attitude is everything"
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#82422 - 12/19/07 06:21 AM Re: Do you know your Sed Rate?
allinthefamily allinthefamily Registered Visitor Registered: 05/30/07 Posts: 86 Loc: St. louis	Well it is a good thing they DON"T go by mine. It has always been no higher than 9 and after I went on orencia it went down to 0. I never have a CRP either but bone scan shows inflammation and I always have an elevated white cell count. When I asked my RD about it he says its inflammation......go figure I am one of the different ones. Terry _________________________ DX PA in 2007 and possible MS 2004 with nystagmus , iritis, migrains, Cervical DDD, Meds: zonsiamide, frova, Rituxan, mortrin, vicodin
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#82423 - 12/19/07 06:38 AM Re: Do you know your Sed Rate?
drizzit drizzit Registered Visitor Registered: 02/18/06 Posts: 1211 Loc: Billings, Montana	SED is interesting and my goes up and down with my flares. I can almost track disease activity with it. I wish I had a home kit to test mine LOL I go from a low of 40 to a high of 110 When I am in the high range I know it. My last one was a 52 and I feel decent right now and the AS is fairly quiet. Before that it was 98 and I was pretty stiff. My AS is mile to moderate and I have no fusion but my SED gets up there pretty good. I think it is the bursitis in my knee that sets it off frankly. I haven't seen anything in the 30's since well before 2001 _________________________ No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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#82424 - 12/19/07 07:30 AM Re: Do you know your Sed Rate?
SuzzwithPA SuzzwithPA Registered Visitor Registered: 10/04/07 Posts: 257 Loc: Burb of Philly	Sedimentation Rates can change very quickly. Usually when a person is in the stages of diagnosis, a Rheumatologist will run the Sed Rate and CReactive Protein every 2 months to see if inflammation is generally higher in the body. In the beginning mine was over 90 to 100. Then for a long time it was around 30 to 40. Usually anything over 30 means you have inflammation in your body, and are likely in "active disease process" and the goal is to get that inflammation down with the medications. Now mine runs 10-15 or so, which is good, but I'm on Humira and prednisone as DMARDS. When mine ran high I ended up a lot damage. $\:\($ Yet that doesn't happen to everyone. I think it depends on the disease and the severity of the disease. Who knows.... $\:\($ I hope you get answers soon. Feeling awful is no fun at all.... xoxo Susan _________________________ PA/RA/OA/DDD. Meds:Humira every 7 days, 3mg of pred, and more for other things.
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#82425 - 12/19/07 09:11 AM Re: Do you know your Sed Rate?
Spenser23 Spenser23 Registered Visitor Registered: 11/28/01 Posts: 4010 Loc: New York, NY, USA	According to Medicinenet.com: "The normal sedimentation rate (Westergren method) for males is 0-15 millimeters per hour, females is 0-20 millimeters per hour ..." http://www.medicinenet.com/sedimentation_rate/article.htm Before Remicade, my SED rate hovered around 65. Since Remicade, it hovers between 0 and 1. Spenser23 _________________________
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#82426 - 12/19/07 09:49 AM Re: Do you know your Sed Rate?
Tacitus Tacitus Registered Visitor Registered: 06/06/03 Posts: 2046 Loc: Palm Springs area, California	Hi, Cass: I am an 'indicator,' and my ESR tracks disease activity. Pre-diet it was almost always at least 45 and often over 100. When over 26, I can really feel the AS creeping back and it takes a week to get it back down to 18, which has become 'normal' for me, perhaps due to all the NSAIDs for so many years. Recently, however, I had one result that did not track symptoms and I am investigating this now. Although we are given a normal range of 0 to 20, a reading at 20 is actually quite high and in a person with AS should be considered a warning. Regards, John _________________________ Nota Bene: I am not a medical doctor, and my views do not represent the opinions of the SAA Professor Alan Ebringer on Diet and AS Hodie mihi cras tibi. *DO IT* (diet) or be done to.
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#82427 - 12/19/07 10:18 AM Re: Do you know your Sed Rate?
jackieb jackieb Registered Visitor Registered: 04/16/07 Posts: 1497 Loc: Saltville	Mine is 26 and I have never been told it was high. I felt it was high and could feel the inflamation in my joints and spine. My dr said unless it was over 35 not to worry. I often feel they are going to wait until I am completely frozen in place before they worry. _________________________ Jackie
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#82428 - 12/19/07 10:20 AM Re: Do you know your Sed Rate?
djw5 djw5 Member Registered: 12/07/02 Posts: 3 Loc: wilmington,delaware	Hi, I am scheduled to have some blood work done to check sed rate and crp levels.I have been pain free over the last 2 years and not taking any kind of medication.That changed over the last month, my lower back has been acting up. Yesterday i started on Celebrex, dosage 200mg daily and actually feeling much better.I really want to know from the blood work if inflammation markers [sed & crp] are high. Should I stop the Celebrex for a few days and then proceed to have the blood work done to have a more accurate results. Thanks,,
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