CRP blood levels - can anyone advise?

[Riddlediddle]

I've been reviewing some of my discharge papers today when filing paperwork from a hospital stay where I was admitted with a perianal abcess that required emergency surgery. I was very very poorly at the time and I had been badgering my GP for days and Id been to the urgent care clinic numerous times but because the abcess wasn't externally visible no-one took me seriously and just thought i had a virus! Ive always thought that i could remember the surgeon at the time telling me i was borderline sepsis by the time i was finally admitted but because I was so out of it at that point I wasn't sure if I'd imagined it. Anyway the paperwork shows I had a CRP level of 182 at the time. A quick Google shows that to be very high but I wondered if anyone on here could offer a true insight into whether that is a dangerously high CRP level please?

My DD had sepsis at 1day old - her CRP was 165.

It's high but wouldn't be unexpected in an abscess. It's a marker of inflammation, one the most common causes of which is infection. From that alone you can't say how ill you were or whether you had sepsis as that is a diagnosis which includes other measures e.g. heart rate, blood pressure, etc.

But it does fit with a significant infection. Hipe you're feeling better now x

I've had a CRP level in the thousands before - got Crohn's disease. Got to win at something I guess

@BobbinThreadbare123 wow that's crazy I didn't even realise the levels could go into the thousands! Hope you are doing well.

@helly29 ah yes good point about other markers too. I've just checked and my blood pressure recording was high too.

@BobbinThreadbare123

I've had a CRP level in the thousands before - got Crohn's disease. Got to win at something I guess

I've seen 3000± in Crohn's, with a white cell count of 60, nasty, nasty disease, I hope you're currently well

CRP can be caused by anything going on. It doesn't say what.
Sepsis with no abscess could cause a CRP that high. An abscess with no sepsis could also cause a CRP that high.
In the context of what happened to you, the CRP is as expected, it doesn't help you figure out whether you had sepsis or not.

Cheers @FixTheBone and @Riddlediddle I am getting by at the mo.

My dd had sepsis and her CRP was 692. She has complex health conditions and had a CRP of 390 when she had another infection aand has had other significant infections when her CRP level has been around 200. It was a while ago but I think they were looking at quite a number of factors when deciding whether ot was sepsis, CRP was definitely one of them though.