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Topic: LLMD in Mass, 9 year old, willing to travel for care!

help1234
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Hi,
I, like lots of people, have had conflicting diagnosis or interpretation of my sons Lyme blood tests. He is 9 years old.

He was tested for Lyme through Igenix last April and it came back as “igenix positive but cdc negative for the IGG western blot” and “Negative IGM”
A NP interpretation was “that he had a past infection and if he wasn’t treated than he still has it”.

Since this test he was tested through his PPC at a Lab (Imugen 8/2013) and results were

Babsia microti DNA detection NEGATIVE�''PCR
Anaplasma phagocytophilum (HGA) DNA detection�''NEGATIVE
Borrelia burgdorferi test method antibody capture enzyme immuneassay�''“no serologic evidence of early infection with B burgdorferi”

Still waiting on the western blot analysis.

If you could help me find a LLMD that can help me make sense of all this I will be very grateful.

Also, willing to travel for proper care.

Thanks,

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Anthropologista
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PM sent!

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help1234
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Member # 41614

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Thanks for your message, appreciate your help!

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hopingandpraying
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PM sent for MA & CT.

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TF
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Please read the explanation of the Western Blot found here:

http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/42077

Since your son was positive on the IgG portion of the Western Blot done by Igenex, your son has lyme disease. Igenex is a tick borne disease specialty lab. They are tops. If they give you a positive, you can rely on it.

As you will read, if either the IgG or the IgM is positive, that is a positive test.

The CDC criteria are surveillance criteria used by the Government for their own purposes. These criteria are NOT used to diagnose a person. So, you do not have conflicting test results at all. What you have is a very common result.

Many people are positive only on the IgG.

I can send you the name of a great doctor in Hyde Park, NY if you are interested. Let me know by sending me a private message. Click on the envelope icon above my post.

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Nancy2
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PM Sent!

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