Lets talk about CRP- C Reactive Protein Blood Test

What's stated as the normal ranges on your results?

Did you have the hsCRP done or just CRP?

Did you also have the ESR done as well...what was that reading?

According to the normal range, according to my lab report for CRP, it's mg/dl 0 - 1.0. My reading was done in '08 and was 0.7.

But at the same time, the normal reading for ESR is MM/HR 0 - 20...mine was above at 26.

The doc, I believe, puts the CRP reading to my liver disease and not UC....so maybe for you, there's something else going on.

There are also other things that can screw with a reading too...so I would suggest you do the research and ask for further testing to help zone in on what's going on.

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This may not apply to your case but it did in mine. My test came back and the PA told me my level was 1.5. I started researching it a little bit and found their are two different units the score is commonly given in, mg/L or mg/dL. When something says the CRP level should be less than 1, it is using units of mg/dL. If the level is 1 mg/dL, it would be 10 mg/L.

The nurse told me mine was being measured in mg/L, meaning that the level was actually 0.15 in the units it is usually measured in. So, there is a possibility yours could be 0.46.

Also, I found a study back when I was researching this talking about CRP levels in IBD patients. The CRP levels usually run higher in patients with IBD, many times much higher. This worried me because a lot of the information said a higher level puts you at a much greater risk for cardiovascular problems. The study found; however, that a "normal" person with a high CRP, say 6 really was at much greater risk for, say a heart attack. But the UC and CD patients, some with CRP's up to 63 (!) had CRP levels that did not correlate to the amount of cardiovascular problems the IBD patients had. The study basically said that high CRP's are not as clear an indicator for determining the possibility of health problems in IBD patients as for the general population.

Sorry if none of this helps or makes you feel any better, but thought I would share what I knew.

Thanks Levi!

For years I have been checking my CRP level on my own, along with cholesterol, etc., and it never was above 1.0. Then last summer during my 1st real flare, it shot up to 91.2! I went crazy because this was before I found out I had IBD.

My blood counts were so fouled up that I was sent to a hematologist to check for the C word (not constipation but lymphoma). But when I went into remission my blood counts immediately returned to normal. Except I was still a little scared to check my CRP level to see if that too is again normal.

What about the other tests that were done with it? Do get the results of all blood tests and look at it on the whole.

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my daughter's crp has always been normal, it's her sed rate that fluctuates.