I wanted more information on what the sed rate is and what it means.Sed rate or ESR is a blood test that can reveal inflammation activity in your body.It may help your doctor diagnose or monitor the progress of an inflammatory disease.The test results come from when our red blood cells gradually settle to the bottom of the blood test tube.Inflammation can cause the cells to clump together.The sed rate measures the distance red blood cells fall in the test tube.in 1 hour.The farther the red blood cells descended the greater the inflammatory response of your immune system.Mostly this test is done if the doctor suspects arthritis such as Rheumatoid.Because a sed rate can't pinpoint the problem causing inflammation it's usually done with another blood test C-reactive protein which I had done.Normal sed rate is 0-22mm/hr. for men and 0-29 for a woman.I did learn from this and hope you did also.

The Dr. should have also told you what your viral level is and depending on how high your viral level is , tells you how serious your case is. .And if it's high they should recheck it. Regardless of what your your level is your Dr. should recheck it ..

My Dr. has said I have raised level for inflammation but he's never really done anything about it. Guess it's not high enough for action to be taken yet but I know I have bad inflammation in certain places.

My ANA levels were 600 when I first had tests done. The normal level for that particular marker is supposed to be closer to 80. It indicates a high level of inflammation in the body. I got info from my rheumatologist. Where I then got more blood work to rule out lots of unpleasant things like lupus

Yup I have many times but no rheumatoid arthritis.