All four family members tested positive with igenex for lyme. We all have symptoms. I am the worst and had the least amount of bands,31+ and 41 IND,. My husband has very little symptoms and has the most amount of bands. Can someone shed some light on this? thanks
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
NO. Many who have FEW bands are the sickest in the bunch. It means that the person's immune system has been so weakened that it can't register a "healthy" response on the antibody test.
Posted by Joe Bob (Member # 45015) on :
Thank you I was so confused by the results.
Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :
LymeToo is correct.
The bands are reporting the immune system response. The sickest people may have no immune response.
Hubby never ever had any bands even indeterminate - everything negative except for band 31 positive once in about 15 or so tests from many different labs (LabCorp, Quest, IGeneX, MDL, Stoney Brook etc) over a period of 12 years. But he did have a positive PCR from IGeneX once - that tests looks for the DNA instead of antibodies.
Also it is possible you have a different strain of borrelia such as borrelia miyamotoi that would not show on the standard test.
Bea Seibert
Posted by hopingandpraying (Member # 9256) on :
One of the top LLMDs told me that you only need to have one band positive in order to have Lyme, not the '6 out of 10' the CDC insists one must have!
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
True what Hoping is saying - even one Lyme-specific band means Lyme.