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Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

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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

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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.

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

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medway-lady

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

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