Hi
yes I would like to know that too
Sophie has had a test for the MS she has a 40% chance of getting it but when you stop and think about that she has a 60% chance of not having it
Mary L

Yes, I was waiting to see if she answered you, but well, that thread swerved rather didn't it Amanda!
Sigh

I think this will be the CCP test, girls. I read that it can predict whether one was likely to develop RA. However, it said it is important to remember that not everyone who tests positive will go on to develop the disease, and that there is nothing that can be done to prevent it's onset. I assume (not sure though) that you woud have to have the tests done privately.

what does ccp stand for Jean? xx
Also i'm a bit worried about the other thread, it started off very well but as mentioned it has seriously swerved.... members of my family have been reading this section, what a shame ......i'm keeping my girls away from this one for a little while but i'm sure they'll return to read over my shoulder again very soon xx

Well it would be up too Jamie our Son .He is 23 now .
i would guess he would not even bother to get tested for anything i have .
( he was nearley 21 when i was dx )

Well if it was me testing my self for any thing my perants have NO Well ha ha i have stuff my father has .
He has passed on too his girls .Not sure if i could pass on to ????

we have thyioed promlems my neice has as well .They tell me my father passed them on to the girls .

but being tested no .I don,t think my sister in law tested my neice ( she is g.p ) No don,t think i would get tested guess my son would not bother or my neices

christine

The anti CCP test is done ONLY when someone first presents with RA type symptoms. It is the definitive test when you are first ill and the rheummies can't decide what you've got. When Lindsay went to see Prof Emery last week, she asked if she could have the test, and he said she could but it wouldn't tell him anything as she had had some form of inflammatory arthritis for almost 20 years.

If I can ask a question? Forgive me for hijacking!! I don't remember being tested for the anti -ccp test. I do remember the RF test it was positive, but not majorly high, just kept climbing each time tested I remember. If you are negative for anti-ccp does that mean you are sero-negative? I just wondered, as I don't remember the test, I assume I was negative for it???

Thanks

Deb x

Interesting thread
not sure had anti ccp shall ask,i have tested postive rf factor low range only twice since 17 now always negative.



melly

Hi there!
I am so sorry, but today, the 11th January, is the first time that I have
noticed this section requesting to know what tests my two eldest
children had for R.A!
My daughter had a blood test, which I think was to check for Rheumatoid
Factor, but I can't be 100% certain as we have since changed G.P's as ours moved
away!
(I am Positive for Rheumatoid Factor and at the time my daughter and I both had the same
G.P, who had first diagnosed me with R.A via bloodtests.)
I believe that our G.P would have checked her out to see if she was R.A positive like me.
Then last year, my eldest son, 33, began to have some early morning stiffness in two or three
of his fingers and some pain which would last for a couple of hours after he got up in the
mornings.
He then developed a hard nodule on one of his fingers and went to our current G.P Practice
and they did some blood tests which included R.A one's, but he tested negative for R.A, as did
my daughter.
So hopefully, up til now they are not showing signs in their blood of R.A.
Sorry again, for taking so long to reply!
Best wishes,
Fiona

it woudlnt oh lol well glad i asked.
a Senior moment yet again.
save me soundly completley loopy at next appointment then.
well no way knowing if that done at beginning well it was when i was 17 far to long ago.
never mind what one doesnt know is sometimes better lol.



so its only done early stages-drat blast go that plan-mum did all talking my early days far to young clueless to even remember much apart from where gave me injections etc.

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