Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

[Hairbearbunch12]

Morning everyone I received a letter from my consultant regarding my resent visit could anyone tell me if this is a high reading or what you would expect if you have seropositive rheumatoid arthritis RF24 anti-CCP 333

Thankyou

[helixhelix]

RF reading is only a weak positive, and anti-CCP is a strong positive. It's quite high, but not abnormally so. And it's not an absolute that the higher the anti-CCP the more aggressive or troublesome your disease is. People vary hugely so you can have a high initial result and a disease that is very easy to control and causes no long term damage. Basically these antibodies are most useful at the diagnostic stage, but not hugely important after that.

[Hairbearbunch12 in reply to helixhelix]

Thankyou so much thats very helpful my consultant is lovely but always very rushed so ive never understood

[medway-lady]

A high CCP can also mean infection somewhere else as they can't tell the difference except by how you feel overall.