It's an ELISA. Your result is "negative". That being said, the ELISA is not a very good test for lyme disease. Generally, it is a clinical diagnosis. If you are looking for a more accurate test, most doctors well versed in lyme disease will skip the ELISA and proceed directly to a western blot. Most people will start with a standard test at Labcorp, MDL or Quest (typically because insurance will cover these tests) and then procede (in many cases) to a Igenix test (which is out of pocket). But again, a test (any test) should be a portion of the diagnostic workup, but is not everything. There are other medical tests to diagnose disease that are generally 100% accurate (cholesterol testing for example), but in lyme disease the testing is generally poor and the diagnosis is primarily clinical. Unfortunately, a clinical diagnosis in the absense of a confirmatory laboratory study doesn't carry much weight in terms of insurance reimburcement or disability applications.
Posted by adamm (Member # 11910) on :
You got a negative on a test that misses upwards of two thirds of
the cases out there. You should search around for the study Johns
Hopkins (in basically all other respects a god-awful institution when it
comes to Lyme) put out on the currently available blood testing--