i have been seeing my own gp now since the beginning of september after suffering with diahorrea for 5 weeks and a really bad bout of anxiety and depression i have had abdominal scans womb biopsy and several blood tests all of which were normal apart from having high cholesterol and a slightly raised esr which was 17 but has now gone to 19 i am worried about what this could mean
Hello, I hope you are well, ESR is a very non-specific acute phase reactant study that can be raised by multiple causes; any infectious process, of stress, deny Chat Doctor.  A very important relationship is diarrhea and an increase in ESR due to an inflammatory bowel disease in any of its variants such as Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's Disease or an Indeterminate Colitis. Is a disease group with extensive clinical presentation and involvement in many organs and systems that require extensive study of functional status, laboratory tests, imaging, endoscopic and histological studies.