RE: ESR in : does it rise or remains low?

[Guest guest]

Danilo,

I'm obviously not a doctor, but I know that when my sedimentation rate is

low (around 8 or 9)I'm feeling well, and when I feel stiff and inflamed the

sed rate gets really high. I'm not sure why your sed rate is normal even

though you feel terrible. It seems strange.

Sara in Los Angeles

[ ] ESR in : does it rise or

remains low?

Best greetings at all.

I'm an Italian patient affected by Psoriatic Arthritis since 1990 and still

now not taking medicines.

Notwithstanding my great problems (inflamation spread all inside my body)

I'm continuing to have a VES -- " velocità di eritrosedimentazione " , that I

think corresponds to the " Westergren erythrocyte sedimentation rate " :

W-ESR-- absolutely normal (value: 8).

In your knowledge, does affect also VES or does leave it

normal?

Many thanks in advance for whatever info on this.

Best regards,

Danilo D'

[Guest guest]

Hi Danilo.

When I was first diagnosed with PA, my sedimentation rate was

extremely high and I only had inflammation in one area on my left

hand (on and around my middle knuckle).

This past year I started having pain in many different places but

my sedimentation rate was completely normal. My rheumatologist told

me that was not unusual. He said that with PA there is frequently

nothing that shows in the tests.

Gayle

[Guest guest]

Had an appointment with my Rheumy today and asked her about the

Sedimentation Rate (I didn't know whether she had been measuring mine

or not - she had). She said the high end of normal is a persons age

divided by two. So she said that in my case (age 55), my last Sed

Rate of 30 was just slightly high.

-- Ron