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Can anyone share from personal experience, what they feel the best co-infection tests are?
Also, do you have to be off of abx for accurate results? If so, how long off?
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disturbedme
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I like Dr. F's lab. That's where I got my first answer to what was really going on with me. I got a positive for Bartonella and negative for the others. Don't know for sure if I am negative for the others, but at least I got one positive; an answer.
Also, I was on abx when I had the blood taken for this. So I'm not sure about when someone needs to be taken off to get accurate results. My LLMD didn't say anything about getting off abx and then testing.
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I like that lab too because it is direct microscopy- so you have a wider net to catch co-infections!!!!!!!!
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Clarissa
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Not sure if you have to be off abx to get positive results. Anyone know this answer for CraigC?
My LLMD used Fry for Bart & Babs, LabCorp for all other tests but interestingly enough, he used Igenex for my Father and LabCorp for my Mother.
I'm not sure there's a cookie-cutter answer. I'd be curious to know if you have to be off abx for more accurate results.
I know that my doc in FL is having me re-tested in January for everything after being on abx for 4 mos so...does that answer the question? Why would he re-test me if it wasn't going to be accurate. Food for thought.
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I too had a good experience with Fry labs- in my case they caught babesia and two ehrichia forms where Igenex coinfection testing found only one ehlichia form and was negative for everything else. I was on a month of abx when I sent in the Fry test and got positives. -Despin
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