what is your E.S.R result?

hi.. my dr always make this test and as mush as it up normal as much as the condition is awful

i had a E.S.R test a month before and it was 108 and i feel like dead

share your E.SR rates in comments

thnx

My daughter's ESR is typically in the 30-ish range, but it has been as high as 75. Her C-reactive protein, another inflammatory marker which, according to her doctor, is a more accurate measure of present inflammation, is usually in the high end of the normal range at .4 or .5, but if she is actively flaring it has been as high as 1.5.

justwrong:

If I am correct I believe it stands for Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate.  Basically they take the blood in a test tube and do some stuff to it and see how long it takes for the cells to settle.  A high rate is indicative of generalized inflammation.  I will admit that although a lot of GI docs like to order this test a lot of docs feel that it is not telling.  Meaning some people feel that it indicates inflammation but the inflammation is general marker.  Then one has to figure out where it is.  C-Reactive protein is also used as an indicator of inflammation.  Some people like one or the other and some feel both are useless. 

By the way both me ESR and C-reactive protein have almost always been normal for almost all of blood test and I have UC for 20 years.

 

I was having excruciating and debilitating joint pain a year ago, but was not having UC symptoms. I saw a rheumetologist and my ESR was 90. He blew it off as being related to my UC because I did not have any visible swelling of the joints. Needless to say he was never any help for my joint problems. He told me to take extra strength tylenol, which did nothing. At the time I was taking Vicodin at night and still unable to sleep because I was seized up in pain.

This is probably a dumb question,but if your GI draws for a CBC, CMP, ESR, blah blah. and your ESR comes back elevated how can or does a GI differentiate if it is elevated because of your joint pain/Arthitis/FMS whatever or if something is terribly amiss/wrong in your tummy? (sometimes things can be wrong with little/no symptoms..). Is it normal for the GI to blow it and one off and pass the buck onto say I guess your Rheumy? Or should the GI be concerned and think some kind of other test such an ct Entererography(sp) or C-Scope etc be done?

(Granted your a person who suffers joint pain, muscle aches/weakness/atrophy, spasms, pain, etc)