Highest CRP reading you've had?

Son had one of 179 but for the life of me I can't remember the whys and where fors (and it happened in the last two years so shame on me!)

well my CRP is currently 16.. yep. only sixteen! yet am in hospital on morphine because of the severe pain..

Mine was 4, taken at the peak of my allergy season (asthma flaring) and before I had good control of the Crohn's.

Hi Geoff,
No he wasn't hospitalised, he has also run a temp of 40.2/40.3 and wasn't hospitalised then either, although they did say if his temp didn't go down he would be admitted(different occasions for these things) I am sure he must of been in pain and in bed but he really doesn't make a big deal out of it, just stays in bed and gets on with it so to speak.

I seriously can't remember exactly what was going on with him at the time though(I will have to trawl back through the posts because I can remember posting about it :) )

True.. although they use it as a baseline on most people with Crohns to guage what's happening. In my case my baseline is actually 12 rather than below 5.. Anything above 12 and in my case it's believed something is happening related to crohn's (assuming of course I'm having crohn's symptoms) otherwise it could just be some other condition.

I realise it's not the be all end all but it must be significant enough for doctors to request the readings.

Those are some HIGH CRPs! I work in a hospital laboratory and you've shocked me! (My highest has been 8.)

My GI cares mostly about Calprotectin in stool, ESR and then CRP. 5 years ago before I was diagnosed, my Calprotectin was 237 but this did not bother my GI. Now, I can have worse flare ups and the calprotectin is just 150 or even 45. As for the CRP, it never hit more than 13. Now, it is 5 and ESR is 34 and 72 and I'm in the middle of a flare up. IMO, they cannot to be considered the only markers of Crohn's.

MinnieToty, I was using the fecal calprotectin test when it was first used in the USA - by Great Smokey Labs and exchanged quite a bit of correspondence w/the fecal calprotectin "inventor", Magne Fagerhol. Seems to me he was Norwegian but its been a long time now .... 2003 or earlier.

It took some cajoling to get my gastro to order it for me and she ordered it only to humor me and used it only for me .... until she finally became a believer. BUT ... we have come to the conclusion that the fecal calprotectin test is just what Magne had first intended ... an easy on the patient test to determine which way the patient's disease activity was trending - into remission, responding to mediction - or - increasing disease activity.

Magne had invisioned the fecal calprotectin test as a "kit" the patient had on hand to check any time he/she felt it was indicated and thus know when or when not to have to contact their gastro for improved treatment or treatment assistance.

Heck! Didn't you ask?? Curiosity killed the cat. I would have HAD to bug them till they gave me the results or burst!!!

I was just looking at my script: the reference range for the caprotection now is <= 162.9 mcg/g and they instruct that it be frozen during transport now. Never used to. Just send at is to Great Smokies. But then this is WARDE. 6-9 days for results.

My highest was "only" 97: unbeknownst to me, I was developing an abscess/fistula. When that baby popped and fistulized, my CRP went back to around normal and stayed there. My CRP was around this range for 6 years, and I'd feel sicker than a dog for weeks at a time, until the abscess popped out.

Aside: "they" are still not sure if I have Crohn's. Had UC and a colectomy/jpouch 20 years ago.

217, when 6MP tried to kill me. My GI ordered an abdominal X-ray to make sure everything was okay, and put me on Humira immediately.

It's interesting how some people's CRP never really rises or not by very much if it does.

I'd like to get copies of blood test results from the first 5 years of my disease before I became systemically ill (fevers, anaemia, malabsorption). I really, really would like to know if my CRP was elevated back then. Ever since surgery, it's been knocking around at 6-8. That's a result which is classed as normal and, compared to my pre-surgery results, it's certainly vastly lower.

My faecal calprotectin test a few weeks ago proved similarly borderline. However, I'm not satisfied everything is hunky dory. I'm not having fevers, but my iron dropped sharply for no apparent reason and I'm having a lot more adominal discomfort compared to last year. My IBD nurse tried to fob me off with reassuring me there was no sign my Crohn's was active, but I'd spent over 10 years being fobbed off and wasn't having any of it. To be fair to her, once I presented all my concerns in an email, she was excellent after that. Got me a fasttrack appointment with the surgeon, who (or rather her registrar) also tried to fob me off at first, but then agreed that it may be time to have an MRI scan. So I'm waiting on that and a flex sig.

I guess I'll soon find out whether I can have active Crohn's without an elevated CRP. My Crohn's affected my entire colon before; that's all gone, so even if it has come back in the small bowel, it's likely to be in a limited area; a few inches behind the stoma, or something.