... Hi, I was just wondering if anybody out there might know about my problem. I have been having really bad heart palpitations that I have more or less related to menopause, but I went into the doctor and had several tests done, one of them being a blood test. I had most everything come out ok, except for an elevated Sed Rate test (I think it's called an ESR test). Supposedly... (6 replies)

... I found your post and this site because I was looking for information about Sed Rate results, but your comment about amyloidosis caught my attention. ... (6 replies)

... I don't know if 38 is really bad or not. I wrote to some doctors on the internet, and had three answers, and a couple of them said it's not too high, and that sed rate tests have a lot of reasons that they can be high, but then one of them suggested other blood tests to rule out some other things. ... (6 replies)