Puzzled active crohns with normal blood results
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Hi I've been in a flare for 5 weeks Red blood loss and weight but all my blood work is spot on a flexible sigmoidoscopy showed disease on entry to rectum with moderate erythema with complete loss of vascular architecture ulceration and friable on insufflation which continued to the sigmoid as all my over crohns flares previously have been in the iluem and my inflammation markers though the roof just finding strange as to why my bloods are normal and we all know how doctors are like when you're bloods are fine was only when I showed them photos of what's was happening they pull their finger out and ordered tests as this happened to anyone else just found it very frustrating
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sonny1968 peter000
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MY SON HAD THE SAME PROBLEM ,CROHN'S DISEASE DID NOT SHOW IN HIS BLOOD TEST SO WAS IGNORED .THE ONLY WAY TO TELL WHEN HE HAS A FLARE UP IS A FECAL CALPROTECIN STOOLS TEST .
anthony51986 peter000
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hi peter you taken any antibiotics lately or eat lot of bread
Theamazon peter000
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I haven't got a confirmed diagnosis yet but when my calprotectin has been raised and also at it's highest, my bloods were normal. Now, considering that I have a diagnosed, constantly active, repeatedly confirmed by biopsy, severe form of an inflammatory condition in addition to possible IBD, I don't trust the blood tests at all.