Remission/false positive?
Quick backstory- I was diagnosed 4 years ago with nothing but a CCP test of 30 and some vague symptoms. Doctors were actually ruling out connective tissue disorders and happened to put it in my blood panel. My rheumatologist at the time explained that I have a family history, so if I wasn’t experiencing symptoms yet, they were coming. We started me on hydroxychloroquine and I’ve experienced what I thought was slowly growing mild RA ever since (things that I was previously brushing off as part of aging and my body being generally defective.)
Since then I got a new rheumatologist who suggested we check the CCP level again since I’m doing so well. Well, it went from 30 to 17- normal range!
Obviously I’ll call her later today, but since that was the only objective diagnostic measure- I’m wondering if I’m in remission because the hydroxychloroquine is working, or if the first CCP was a false positive and I’ve just been popping Plaquenel for funsies for the past 4 years. I don’t really think that’s the case, but I’ve never heard of elevated CCP going back down to normal range. My first rheumatologist told me that once that marker goes up it never goes down again.