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I'd like to hear from folks who had one or more negative WB blood tests, but eventually turned positive. At what point did this happen? Does going on antibiotics somehow help trigger a positive blood test? Or is it just a matter of the illness progressing further along?
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Has no one else had a negative WB turn positive at some point? After going on antibiotics?
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I had an Equivocable result on a WB in 2003. They called it negative. My symptoms waxed and waned some the next 2 years as I was treating homeopathically for reoccurring viral and fungal infections.
In 2005 I got much worse and we tested again. At that point I was IGM postive (CDC and Igenex), but IGG negative. In the mean time I may have been on zithromax once for sinus infection (can't remember), but certainly not on a course of treatment for Lyme.
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Mine turned positive after I'd stopped the benzodiazepine I'd been on - Klonopin. I also had radically changed my diet prior to this, so I'm not sure which did it - the diet or the cold-turkeying of a 16 year benzo.
Or maybe it was just that I'd used IGeneX that time.
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My youngest son had a high ASO titer and a neg WB. He was treated for the titer first and in the same bloodwork that the titer dropped to normal, his WB came back CDC positive - Labcorp
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I tested negative at diagnosis; WB IgG band 35, only (and a plethora of sx). A rule out diagnosis was done (it was 1993).
As my treatment progressed I got more bands and it took me better than 2 years to get a CDC positive WB. I had a couple of positive and borderline urine antigen tests around the same time.
Otherwise, my tests are all negative with multiple IND bands and a smattering of + lyme specific ones. I have recently seroconverted(not sure that's the right word) and have more IgM response than IgG, go figure!
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Negative until after taking antibiotics for for a year when I was again tested. It was positive by CDC surveillance standards with bands that lit up like a Xmas tree.
Clinical diagnosis is very important for people who test negative. It seems the longer you are ill with lyme, the more apt you are to test negative.
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