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what does the community consider a normal SED rate for GCA/PMR?
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 7 hours ago | Replies (9)Comment receiving replies
The sed rate normals are based on a “normal population” assumption of generally healthy.
Your sed rate doesn’t always correlate with your symptoms or systemic degree of inflammation.
Your doctor considers what they expect to see for someone with known PMR as acceptable for their
condition. Less than 30 for most of us would be
acceptable if we had a minimum symptom score.
Your doctor’s guidelines reflect their experience with managing your disease. There are other tests for inflammation when the sed rate doesn’t correlate with
your symptoms. Consider requesting high sensitivity
CRP for cardiac risk evaluation with your lab checks.
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I agree with seniormed. Many that have PMR do not show outside normal on sed rate or crp. But normal is what is your normal. I dont think most of had the tests before we got PMR so we dont have a baseline of whats your normal. Mine were normal. But an MRI of both shoulders showed bursitis. It just made diagnosis more difficult.