Lyme testing in Ontario

[TessaKrista]

Someone suggested testing for lyme. I have heard that the U.S. has some great lyme tests, whereas the Canadian ones tend to show up as negative, because the levels they use to show positive lyme, are so high, that people generally don't show up as accurately showing their lyme disease. I don't know if I have accurately depicted the U.S. vs Canadian lyme testing differences.

 

http://ontariolymediseaseclinic.com/Testing.htm

 

Above is a link to the lyme disease clinic testing. Wondering if anyone has used them, and what you know about the Ontario tests.

[Hopeny]

They say they send the labs to Igenex which is one of the two labs in the U.S. that LLMD's use - (the other is Stonybrook but they don't test coinfections). I have not heard great things about the urine test though, from what I recall it was a good idea but has not been fully vetted.

Lyme testing is very complex and as I understand most labs don't test as many strains as the above two, hence the variance in results.

 

This website seems a bit concerning from what I read that they don't seem to use antibiotics. Every integrative doctor I have read about says you need antibiotics in addition to the herbals