My husband is 56 years old and he was diagnosed with the pyogenic spine infection and is currently treated with antibiotics. He has his blood analyzed all the time and his erythrocyte sedimentation rate is always higher than it should be. What is the significance of the increased sedimentation in the pyogenic spine infection? Does it mean that he is not getting better at all?
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Hi! First of all I must tell you that I am no professional and that I speak from my experience only. I have a family friend who also had pyogenic spine infection some years ago. He also had his blood tested all the time during his treatment and the doctor was always checking for the sedimentation rate in the results. As I understood the doctor told him that if the sedimentation rate falls it means that he is responding to treatment as he should and that infection is weakening. I don’t know if this is always the case though.
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I don’t agree! I think that you should talk to your husband’s doctor; he is best familiar with his case and can interpret the results accordingly. As far as I know even though the erythrocyte sedimentation rate does correlate well with response to treatment as a general rule, care must be taken in interpretation of a persistently high or even rising erythrocyte sedimentation rate as an isolated clinical finding. It doesn’t have to mean that your husband is not responding to treatment at all or that his state is worsening.
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