[goodnesswins]

NOT unless it was ordered.....some docs are "with it" and a lot more are not. ASK your doctor!!! And if he says NO, you don't need it....find another doctor. BACKGROUND: I was recently diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis ....my CRP was negligible one year ago....less than pt. 1.....when it was checked in October it was 1.7.....I have SOME kind of inflammation problem going on, obviously.....since it increased by 17 times.....(It's now back down, or was recently, although I'm still fighting some kind of inflammation or something.)

[St. Johann Tetzel]

Put everybody with high CRP on doxycycline or similar benign anti-biotics. Some docs advocate this for BOTH rheumatoid arthritis as well as heart disease, believing that certain microbacteria cause the inflammation in joints as well as arteries:

Google search: chlamydia heart disease CRP

[Judith Anne]

I was recently diagnosed with RA also, but because I have been taking aspirin 3x day for ordinary arthritis, I still had a low CRP. I now take it 4x per day, on schedule and with food.

Statins aren't the only way to lower CRP. ;-D