I am now in TX but have been living in WY, CO, AZ, NV, all in mountain towns.

I am sick with almost all of the check list symptoms and now find my NK cells are 4.20 cortisol free is 3.7, DHEA is 51.

I have small Q-waves, left axis deviation and left anterior hemiblock. Possible R. ventricular hypertrophy.

I have been diagnosed with FMS/CFIDS, anxiety, depression for over 10 yeras now. Asked my doctor to perform this test and these are the results.

Please. Would anyone want to take a look at them and explain what the heck I do now. lol

I have an appointment w Dr. SG in Dallas but I am quickly reconsidering the choice. Dr. in Bedford is not taking new patients now.

Thank you for any help and knowledge on the tests.
Foggedup
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IGeneX, INC
Palo Alto, CA (Test was done in CA not SLC, UT.)

Lyme IGG Western Blot Negative

18 kDa -
22 kDa -
**23-25 kDa -
28 kDa -
30 kDa ++
**31 kDa IND
**34 kDa -
37 kDa -
**39 kDa IND
**41 kDa +
45 kDa +
58 kDa -
66 kDa IND
73 kDa -
83 kDa -
**93 kDa IND
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IgM Western Blot Negative

Don't feel bad an LLMD will put you on antibiotics. I noticed a lot of the **bands were indeterminent.

Meaning = they saw something!!!!

Hopefully after being on antibiotics your tests may become a little clearer. But there are alot of people who have NEVER had a positive test.

How can 6 weeks abx hurt? What's the doctor's opinion? and what if you actually start feeling improvement? or have a herx? right?!

Best test around and you get your results within 24 hours without taking any meds after they receive your blood. This test saved my life. I also passed it on to my husband as it is a spirokete.

I have a lot to learn here, I will try to research before I ask a "newbie" question! haha

A good point, which I forgot to mention to you previously, was that with treatment negative tests can become positive, or 'more positive'. I don't entirely understand why this happens, but it does.

Personally, I don't think you need to spend more money on more testing at the moment, but I think that you would be wise to at least have an appointment with an LLMD, try treatment (for Lyme) and see what your reaction is to such treatment, which might be your best sign either way./

So here is ignorance speaking his two cents of commentary:

You have a positive IGG 41 kDa., this means that at some point in time you have had and may still have a spirochete infection of some sort. The band 41 is common to all spirochete infections. The interesting thing is that in both tests you have a positive 30 kDa. This is more or less closely related to 31 and is an immune response to one of the outer surface proteins in borrelia, I forget which. Further you have an IGM 23-25 band positive, which again shows the presence of an outer surface protein.

The crucial point is that in both tests band 39 kDa was indeterminate. This means that it is certainly suspicious. Band 39 is an antibody/antigen complex that is absolutely unique to lyme disease. In my view, if you have that you have lyme disease and that is that. If you were negative for lyme disease then why are all those bands and numbers sticking out like so many sore thumbs?

Given the symptoms which you have expressed, their severity and duration and the fact that there are all those interesting positive and indeterminate bands, I would certainly say that there is a very good chance that you have lyme disease and there may be co-infections as well. You need to get yourself into the hands of the most competent lyme literate doctor you can find and they are rare as hen's teeth.

I had negative tests almost 18 months, even on massive antibiotics-so what has happened to you, given the nature of the disease, is not that strange or out of the ordinary. Truth to tell the testing is next to useless much if not most of the time. All it can do, as it has done in your case, is give indications or hints.

As a retired airline employee, I still have flight benefits.(I am 46 now, I got to retire early because of the time I put in)...nice...

It would be hard for me physically to travel, but I will do what I need to do. I have not heard great things about this Doc SG that I have an appointment.

Some members have emailed me with suggestions and I will be researching those docs.

My blood was drawn in the afternoon. Doc said he likes to see it between 8-14 and repeating myself here,it was 3.7.

I am just learning, so please don't think you are offending me by explaining this.

Spill it!!