"Borderline" disease?

[trintiybella]

Have you ever heard of someone having borderline lyme disease. I though either you had it or you did not. Following are my daughters recent results. Looks like lyme, right?

 

IGG IGM

 

18 kDa - 18 kDa -

**23-25 kDa - **23-25 kDa -

28 kDa - 28 kDa -

30 kDa - 30 kDa -

** 31 kDa - **31 kDa +

** 34 kDa - **34 kDa -

** 39 kDa IND **39 kDa IND

** 41 kDa ++ **41 kDa +

45 kDa - 45 kDa +

58 kDa - 58 kDa -

66 kDa - 66 kDa -

** 83-93 - **83-93 kDa IND

 

 

 

[msimon3]

If what we are looking at is a Western Blot test from Igenex, then yes these IgM results would be characterized as positive by Igenex due to two starred bands being positive (31 and 41).

[SSS]

Yeah, it's like you can't be 'a little bit pregnant'

However, some may carry Lyme with little or no symptoms, their healthy, unencumbered (no other infections pulling it down)

immune systems handling it and keeping it in check.

But it's scary to carry, IMO, because a stressful event could cause a crash :-(

[Rachel]

Is this the $200 test? Can this test be ordered online by the patient or does it need the doc's signature?

 

How long does it take to get the test results back?

Edited July 31, 2014 by rachel

[chubbermommy]

I remember reading somewhere that Lyme suppresses the immune system, in some more than others. You could have Lyme but not have any antibodies show up on the test b/c their production is being suppressed. And it is only after antibiotics that the tests come back positive, like the body was given some help and THEN the immune response could be mounted. Does that make sense? Still on my first cup of coffee here.

[trintiybella]

Yes chubbiermommy, it does. LOL

Say you start out with a lot of positive bands on the test, and you start treating for lyme. Do those positives start to disappear when you begin to kick the lyme? Or is it more based on your symptoms?

[SSS]

Continuing treatment is based on symptoms.

It would be lovely to have better Lyme, Bartonella, Babesia testing,

and by better I mean:

100% it's there, 100% it's gone, like they do for cancer, they can get remission claimed with certainty.

We don't have that kind of testing with Lyme disease-

which is why it's so important to be treated by a Lyme literate medical Dr. or Natural Practitioner.

I'll go further to say it's equally as important for the Lyme patient and/ or caregiver to become educated themselves about the disease,

and with that knowledge, listen to their own intuition about treatment strategies presented.