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Posted by jpsmom (Member # 23895) on :

could a positive ANA test point to lyme???

Posted by IckyTicky (Member # 21466) on :

Yes I was ANA + and my GP thought I had either lupus or scleroderma. I went to my LLMD and he says people with Lyme get + ANA all the time and that it goes away with treatment. Told me not to worry about it.

Posted by karenl (Member # 17753) on :

It can be from any other disease, viruses also cause elevated ANA. On the HHV 6 page they say HHV 6 occured in people with autoimmune disease

http://www.hhv-6foundation.org/
2nd paragraph under the picture

Posted by Fuel1212 (Member # 29312) on :

I have Chronic Lymes as well as Hashimotos and did not have positive ANA?

Don't be alarmed though, since I am always the rare one [Smile]

Posted by cjfrank (Member # 26985) on :

I had a positive ANA. The diagnosis for this for me is fibromyalgia. At first my dr. thought Lupus, but then after testing, they found that my vitamin d was extremely low also.

The combination of the low vitamin d and the fibromyalgia made it look like I had lupus.

Once my vitamin d got back to where it was supposed to be the symptoms I was left with pointed to the fibromyalgia which is what we are dealing with now.