I've been vaccinated against measles/mumps/rubella numerous times now... the reason being that the University I attended required either vaccination or proof of immunity if I was to be allowed to attend. I didn't have ready access to my childhood medical records, so I opted for an antibody test instead -- I showed no antibodies, so I got the vaccine through the university. They then required that I be re-tested for antibodies (or risk expulsion) and so I did -- no antibodies again. I think this happened four or five times (over a 6 year period) before I finally managed to graduate with my master's degree. (I also know for sure that I was vaccinated as a child.) I hate to think about all the stuff that was injected into me with all that vaccinating...
My nagging question... why don't I make antibodies to the vaccine? Is this a lyme thing? I was just dx'ed with Lyme early this year after being sick for decades....
I wonder if this is true for other lymies?
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It may be that their test isn't capable of measuring some people's antibodies... Like the Lyme test usually can't find antibodies.
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I don't remember, honestly -- it was done through student health. when this thought hit me this morning, I was thinking perhaps immunosuppression was the problem.
I am obviously making some antibodies, though -- for example to Bb-- I tested positive on 9 bands of the IgM western blot!! (After being ill for at least 18 years...)
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For the first 19 years that I was sick I was diagnosed with CFS. I was told by CFS doctors to not get a flu shot. First, they were making many CFS people sick and second CFS people didn't make any antibodies to it anyway. Maybe it's the same thing with Lyme.
I haven't had a tetanus shot in 11 years because the last one made me feel like dying for about six months. My lyme doctor said that the shot can make you sick.
Kathy
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Very interesting topic - I don't know what to think....
Tracy
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