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While on Rocephin, my LLMD is having me get weekly & monthly blood tests (Quest Diagnostics). The monthly test results just came in the mail and this is what it says:
Of course, I'll discuss with my LLMD but my next appt is a month away. I've searched here on LymeNet as well as on the Internet but found nothing to explain what the "Out of Range" number means.
Does anyone have insight?
Thanks!
-------------------- ---------- Danni Posts: 311 | From Glen Mills, PA | Registered: Jan 2009
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This is the CD-57 test. Lyme disease will lower your values on this test. Yours aren't bad at all. 64 is barely out of range.
To read about this, just go to Burrascano Guidelines on-line and do a search on the word "killer."
On page 30 he recommends a special supplement for people whose natural killer cell count is below 60. So, that shows you that yours is pretty good.
On p. 8 is a section on the CD 57 test. You should read it. Here is a quote that says to use Labcorp for the test, not Quest:
"When this test is run by LabCorp (the currently preferred lab, as published studies were based on their assays), we want our Lyme patients to measure above 60; a normal count is above 200." (p. 8)
So, not sure the Quest values equate to the Labcorp values.
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