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Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :

I am sure Steve is not the only one that the F lab found ring forms of babesia in their blood.

My question is -- if you had this finding did you ever get tested for FL 1953 or protomyxzoa? If so, what were the test results for FL 1953?

Bea Seibert

Posted by hadlyme (Member # 6364) on :

My understanding, the C looking half ring forms IS FL1953/protomyxzoa.

Posted by Dekrator48 (Member # 18239) on :

Just wanted to say that the best summary of info about protomyxzoa may be on betterhealthguy.com's site.

Here is the link from the 2012 Physicians Roundtable conference, where Scott summarizes info from Dr F about protomyxzoa rheumatica:

http://www.betterhealthguy.com/joomla/blog/264-physicians-round-table-2012

Here is the link to the BioResource Conference notes from Scott. Dr C from PA talks about FL1953/protomyxzoa rheumatica:

http://www.betterhealthguy.com/joomla/blog/257-bioresource-2012-conference

Here are a couple of the points from Scott's notes from Dr C's talk (there are many more in the link):

�In some cases, it has been observed that low levels of Babesia duncani antibodies with a negative FISH could be an indicator for Protomyxzoa rheumatica.
�FL1953 (Protomyxzoa rheumatic) can be found in red blood cells on a smear done by Fry Labs. May appear as hypochromic red blood cells.

Posted by BoxerMom (Member # 25251) on :

My husband had visible ring forms in 2008.

Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :

Decrater48 -- the bit about the positive B duncani antibodies is interesting -- don't remember reading those notes before.

Hospital doc has agreed to order test from F lab -- I know it is long shot but that is one of the few tests hubby has not done. We decided to do the Spiro Stat test in April instead of the F lab test. Thought surely a test for 30 different organisms would show something.

Bea Seibert

Posted by seekhelp (Member # 15067) on :

That is very interesting about FL1953 and the B. Duncani link.

Posted by BoxerMom (Member # 25251) on :

I missed part two of the question. Neither my husband nor I have been tested for FL1953.

Posted by Elaine G (Member # 20735) on :

Just adding this, I finally tested positive for Babesia Duncani after 3 years, with Igenex PCR test.

I am negative for FL1953.