northstar
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Due to no test being infallible, lyme is a clinical diagnosis. This is reflected in the Burrascano guidelines, where there are numerous symptom and possibility of exposure lists. No info of this type is provided here.
Also, no dr., even a lyme dr., would diagnose without some differential dx investigation, and include heart, neurological, etc., and blood work,.
Therefore, no one can venture an opinion on what these results might suggest without other information.
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Yeah I know but I wanted to know what you thought. I am quite confident in the first two cases having lyme..one of them being me I was wondering more about case 3. There are no clinical symptoms other than seasonal sinus/allergy ones.
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With case 3 having IND on such Lyme specific bands, I would do a trial run on abx, then retest. That's what we did with my daughter with a weaker test result than that.
Of course, if seasonal allergies are the only health complaint, would you really want to treat anyway? Is it really the ONLY health complaint, or are there others that the person has just grown accustomed to thinking are normal?
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northstar
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one of them being me [Smile]
That's funny!
Seriously, I was more concerned that "one of them" might grab that, and use it out of context.
I know that you know, but do they know? No.
Confused? Me too Northstar
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Thanks
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Like I said, all three have Lyme. Now the issue is whether any have co-infections. Additionally, while three may be asymptomatic (Which I highly doubt) -- they do have Lyme. The issue now is whether they have subtle symptoms that are being minimized or entirely detached from Lyme.
It's also possible they have another condition on top, but that's something I don't really feel is appropriate to assume in order to avoid treating the Lyme.
A test run of antibiotics as a therapeutic probe is a wise choice. The issue is simple, if the person was recently bitten, how do we know that if we wait to treat, just because they're presenting with few or no symptoms, that this isn't going to give the infection time to spread.
It's ultimately the person's choice, and if I were asymptomatic and I knew I had Lyme, I'd immediately see an LLMD, and I'd be evaluated, and then I'd do my own homework. Then I'd make my decision.
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I was wondering more about case 3. There are no clinical symptoms other than seasonal sinus/allergy ones.
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