Stool Test for UC - Calprotectin

hateuC & 'Conquer UC' - Today I have dropped the sample at the lab. In addition to the stool collected yesterday, today I added little sample collected in the morning which contained blood.

I will update you in another two weeks. Thanks for your words.

Interesting.  I'm so glad you shared your result.  Looks like the test could be promising for disease activity.

B

How are you doing now Sara?

I'm thinking of doing this test as well, not now because im obviously flaring. But later when im in remission (hopefully).

From your values it seems like it is a good test but perhaps it does not detect early changes that happen before the inflammation really starts.

Also interesting how we can go from zero to one hundred in less than 2 weeks :-/

Silent bomber hahah good one. Very true.

Yeh i need all the luck i can muster to get into remission, and say in remission. Because i never seem to stay in it for long enough. Considering 6mp now as i failed the enemas etc.

Hope you feel better soon too. You've been flaring for a while now.

I have heard that extremely high results for the faecal calprotectin test are meaningless. No idea how common results in the thousands are, but if you get anything that high, then, yes, take it with a pinch of salt.

My GI uses the FC test, and I largely trust his judgement on these kind of things: he at least goes to IBD conferences and reads studies, which is probably more than most GI doctors do. Anyway, the test that I had done before surgery had a reading in the mid-500s: however, god knows what meds I was on at the time. Probably steroids and possibly Humira - I'd have to check the dates.

I had another FC test done in November 2012, but never got the result back from that: the IBD helpline wasn't working, and my stoma nurse said she wasn't allowed to give me the result (even though I requested it: ridiculous...) Anyway, neither IBD nurse was there, so I never got my result. Could try again... In fact I will. When I find out, I'll let you know!