Guest guest Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 What is a CRP please? -- C-Reactive Protein To the lady who inquired...This is "off the record" information, as I'm a nurse and not a doctor, but I still need to protect my license.An elevated CRP indicates an allergic reaction systemically. Not just just locally (for you I would assume local would be your chest). In other words your entire body is reacting to the foreign object and it's trying to protect itself. There is an inflammatory process going on your body that most likely includes all body functions. Please try to obtain lab results with the actual values on the paper. You may need them later on. A simple word like "elevated" on the document with not suffice (and they do try to get away withaty kind of thing. So please make sure the actual number value is listed along with normal parameters. Generally each facility can make up their own parameters! Sad but true... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Also . . . it may help to find out of the lab doing the test is affiliated with DOW chemical. . . DOW bought up most the labs in the country years ago. They refuse to offer testing for the things that implant women test positive for - Like silicone hypersensitivity and ionized platinum! (We know of some labs who will do these tests though.) You might ask that the test be done at two different labs if the test is critical. Rogene --- prettypinkprincess_p3 <prettypinkprincess_p3@...> wrote: > To the lady who inquired... > > This is " off the record " information, as I'm a nurse > and not a doctor, > but I still need to protect my license. > > An elevated CRP indicates an allergic reaction > systemically. Not just > just locally (for you I would assume local would be > your chest). In > other words your entire body is reacting to the > foreign object and > it's trying to protect itself. There is an > inflammatory process going > on your body that most likely includes all body > functions. Please try > to obtain lab results with the actual values on the > paper. You may > need them later on. A simple word like " elevated " > on the document > with not suffice (and they do try to get away > withaty kind of thing. > So please make sure the actual number value is > listed along with > normal parameters. Generally each facility can make > up their own > parameters! Sad but true... > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 I'm on Enbrel, and my rheumy likes to use the CRP test to monitor my RA. It is usually normal now, but recently it was up a little, so he repeated the test and it was normal again. (It had been about a month since the previous test.) I was not having any problems when it was up. I'm not sure how much it fluctuates up and down when the RA is basically under control, but I could not tell from my symptoms when mine was up. It wasn't up much. But you must be patient. It usually takes much more time than 9-10 weeks to get the disease under control. It might take the addition of a medication, so be sure to let your rheumy know that you need more help. Sue On Monday, November 13, 2006, at 05:36 PM, wrote: > > I was wondering if those of you who suffer from RA, if your C-Reactive > Protein levels went to normal after treatment. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Thanks Sue, ---I'll check with my doc and see what she has to say. I am impatient. I want to get to the point where I have energy again and pain free. So far, nothing yet. I'll try to be more patient. I just sometimes feel that maybe I have something other than RA wrong with me and so I get discouraged. I have had to cut way back on activities and one in particular is that I used to watch my grandson (2years old) a couple days a week, and now I can only manage a few hours. I had to watch him most of the day yesterday though, and by the time he went home, I was hobbling around and after I rested, I was so sore and stiff I thought I was going to cry. All I wanted to do was to go to bed. Thanks again, I don't mean to be a cry baby. Les > > I'm on Enbrel, and my rheumy likes to use the CRP test to monitor my > RA. It is usually normal now, but recently it was up a little, so he > repeated the test and it was normal again. (It had been about a month > since the previous test.) I was not having any problems when it was up. > > I'm not sure how much it fluctuates up and down when the RA is > basically under control, but I could not tell from my symptoms when > mine was up. It wasn't up much. > > But you must be patient. It usually takes much more time than 9-10 > weeks to get the disease under control. It might take the addition of a > medication, so be sure to let your rheumy know that you need more help. > > Sue > > On Monday, November 13, 2006, at 05:36 PM, wrote: > > > > I was wondering if those of you who suffer from RA, if your C-Reactive > > Protein levels went to normal after treatment. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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