Farmed salmon are atlantic salmon but I like to stick with wild
salmon.  Farmed salmon (due to cramped quarters) are prone to sea
mites which can be devastating so they have to be treated with
insecticide. They are also given food with coloring to give them the
pink color of wild salmon.   The sea mite issue can then become an
issue with wild salmon.  Escape of Atlantic salmon can be an issue it
can ultimately weaken the wild runs.   I stick with wild salmon the
local fisherman here in Oregon really appreciate that.  If you want to
read about it check this out.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon

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I am actually going to email my rheumy today and ask him what he
thinks.

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I did receive an email back from my Rd and he was sitting in an
airport in Toronto at the time he wrote his response. He said because
I was not given the loading dose it would take longer to get a
response, but if I did not get a response by week ten then I would
need to try something else. In the meantime I should use pred  to tide
me over. He did not indicate how much, but I tend to do better at
higher doses of pred. It is not yet ten weeks so he may make me wait.
On the other hand, because I am now on bp meds, he may consider making
a change sooner.

He said he would review my file when he is back in his office on
Monday.
In teh meantime, I have an injection site reaction from mtx. I
developed a red raised itchy spot the week before last- actually I
have had two injections since then. With the last injection, I think
that i was close to that area (on my thigh) so it tended to worsen. It
is red and itchy, not sore. I have been on injectable mtx for almost
ten years and have never had anything like this. I can also see marks
from other injections. It is very curious to me because i would wonder
why i should develop problems now. I should have reported it to my
family doc when i was there on Tue, but i thought it would go away.
It does seem highly unusual.

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I absolutely will improve in the summer, if not before. And if i need
to I will take pred.
SO it is a problem that can be solved. I did email the rheumy this
morning, but have not yet heard back.

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Yes it was 86, but I am not sure how/if that converts. I know that the
normal range is the same as what  you've mentioned, 0-1. I need to
look  the scale I found before. According to that the reading you had
would put you in about a mid to h igh range, with anything above 15
listed as a category 5 for risk. I will look  up that information this
evening. It was an Amercian site that said that  crps of 100 are not
atypical in an RA flare, so therefore I assumed it was the same
system. Doc did not give me that lab report so I can not say for sure
what the scale was that was used.
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Check this link. It has a little scale that shows that any CRP above
3.0 mg/L puts one in the high risk category, so that is why your docs
wigged. I have also read that it is not unusual for CRP to me hundreds
of times higher in inflammatory conditions such as RA etc/
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