CRP levels

Every lab uses a different scale and many use different units. You have to consider both. Go based on the individual lab ranges.

Aside: CRP is a pretty useless measure of inflammation, I wouldnt be too concerned with it

I only started seeing my CRP regularly once I was on Remicade (it would be recorded on the sheet, along with temp, blood pressure, etc.) It would hover around 30 until the next flare-up, where it would spike into the 100s or 200s. The highest recorded measurement was 350.

A few years ago at my previous hospital I remember a result of 100.

Pretty sure I walked around with a high CRP for years. Makes me laugh when I see people go on about a CRP of 3 in the context of risk for heart disease, etc. Even now my last recorded measurement a few weeks ago was 9. That's considered on the high side of normal.

PS: TC, with those numbers it sounded like your lab was using the older CRP test, not the newer, high-sensitive, one. Don't understand why so many US labs still seem to use the older CRP test, when even the NHS have got with the times and use hs-CRP tests. Anyway, if that's the case, then you would multiply by 10 to get the equivalent result, eg 0.9 would equal 9.

Post Edited (NiceCupOfTea) : 11/22/2014 4:49:56 PM (GMT-7)

Also CRP reading is not always to do with UC. It picks up any inflammation in your body and that could be something as simple as a common cold that raises your levels slightly.

The calprotectin stool test is much more reliable as a test for inflammation in your gut.