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Another negative ELISA test for Lyme Disease.
RMSP antibody tests is negative but shows .30 (.85 is positive) - does this mean anything?
Sed rate was 27 this time around - last time it was normal.
flagged high on basophil % in serum and leuk. ester in urine.
Everything else was within normal limits.
Anyone have any insight? Am I going to die, or what?
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Razzle
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RMSP titer of .3 when .85 is positive is a clearly negative result. I wouldn't worry about this if I were you.
Sed rate of 27 is not really that high...I've had a sed rate as high as 102 and I'm still alive to talk about it, LOL! Sed rate is just a generic marker for inflammation (usually chronic more so than acute inflammation). Lyme and coinfections are known to increase inflammation in the body through a number of different mechanisms (direct action on the immune system, direct action on body cells/tissues, immune response to the infection, etc.). Treatment for Lyme/coinfections should bring this down to normal eventually.
Basophils are a type of white blood cell. The percentage being high is meaningless without knowing the absolute cell count along with it.
You are not going to die with these numbers...
-------------------- -Razzle Lyme IgM IGeneX Pos. 18+++, 23-25+, 30++, 31+, 34++, 39 IND, 83-93 IND; IgG IGeneX Neg. 30+, 39 IND; Mayo/CDC Pos. IgM 23+, 39+; IgG Mayo/CDC Neg. band 41+; Bart. (clinical dx; Fry Labs neg. for all coinfections), sx >30 yrs. Posts: 4166 | From WA | Registered: Feb 2011
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