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Has anyone else only tested positive for 1 band on the lyme disease test? I tested positive for p23 and no other band and I tested positive for ehrlicia. Just wondering if anyone else had a positive diagnosis for Lyme with only 1 band testing positive and feeling like Hell day in and day out! I guess I am second guessing what is really going on here! I would think more bands would be positive for the amount of illness I feel! Also the most recent tests I have had are coming up negative and I feel like I got hit by a bus! Idk what to do I guess I am glad I found this page looks like alot of people on here are going through what I am. Just wondering if anyone else had the same kind of test results and felt sooo sick?!
Posts: 12 | From Michigan | Registered: Jan 2012
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Yes - exact results positive band 23. I understand your feelings of doubting the diagnosis. I have felt the same way. Even retested to try to get stronger results. I guess too sick to produce enough antibodies.
That band is specific to Lyme.
Posts: 312 | From Utah | Registered: Nov 2010
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yea something like that.. I have been through the ringer with this disease:( I tested positive for Ehrlica, Mycoplasma, HHV 6 as well:( Not in a good state right now.... I was just wondering if anyone else had the same results as me and you do:) And it is always Igm never Igg that shows up..Idk I have been reading alot of stories on here! Seems like alot of people are in my hell and it is not a fun place to be! Posts: 12 | From Michigan | Registered: Jan 2012
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I also only tested positive on IgM 23 and felt just awful! I also wondered if it was a "true" positive but through research and talking to a LLMD, it IS a lyme specific band.
I hope you start to get some relief. I know this disease is horrible and turns your whole life upside down.
Posts: 53 | From IL | Registered: Jun 2011
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I am with you, and very ill as well....2 years- Continued positive Elisas...and, I can't get the bands from my last WB after a positive Elisa! I am sending out for Igenex next week. Utterly exhausted and hanging on by a thread. Not enough money for llmd w/o insurance. Best to you!!!
Posts: 61 | From NC | Registered: Aug 2011
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This is what I am thinking/knowing too- I have almost every symptom and I may very well have to leave my job next week. My functioning is almost nil... (again)
Re: bands- "It's NEGATIVE" They are giving me the runaround- lab telling nurses that I don't need it- telling Dr. same thing...everyone pretending that they don't understand-very strange- they are "trying" again on Monday-I explained everything in detail to Dr.- he truly acted like he didn't have a clue- (cdc, former positive elisas, band 23, that I need the labwork/I paid for it, etc...) I can only afford the basic from Igenex-hope it's not too late to get helpful positives...they also sent my ebv to special lab due to tech diff. got that back finally/current or former exposure- myco shows former exposure- still waiting on Erlichia- long wait too....sorry so choppy- utterly fatigued
Posts: 61 | From NC | Registered: Aug 2011
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Former exposure is nonsense....
If you have IgG reactivity to mycoplasma you could still have it. PCR it the only way to know for sure.
Mycoplasma infections can be chronic and in my case affected my immune system so badly that I did not test positive for lyme until extended treatment for mycoplasma was completed. Only then, did bands start to show up.
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