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Topic: ANA test positive

jpsmom
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 23895

posted

could a positive ANA test point to lyme???

Posts: 443 | From The North Star | Registered: Jan 2010 | IP: Logged |

IckyTicky
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 21466

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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.

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IGM: 18+, 23+, 30+, 31+++, 34+, 39IND, 41++, 58+++, 66+, 83-93IND
IGG: 31+, 39IND, 41+
Also positive for Mycoplasma Pneumoniae and RMSF.
Whole family of 5 dx with Lyme.

Posts: 1014 | From Texas | Registered: Jul 2009 | IP: Logged |

karenl
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 17753

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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

Posts: 1834 | From US | Registered: Oct 2008 | IP: Logged |

Fuel1212
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 29312

posted

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]

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IgM- 31,34,39,83-93 IND
IgM- 41+

IgG- 31,34,39,83-93 IND
IgG- 41++

Posts: 610 | From Lymeville | Registered: Nov 2010 | IP: Logged |

cjfrank
Member
Member # 26985

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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.

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cjfrank

IGG Western Blot - negative
IGG Bands Detected - p18
IGM Western Blot - positive
IGM Bands Detected - p23, p41

Posts: 49 | From Maine | Registered: Jul 2010 | IP: Logged |

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