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I finally got my test results from my dr. what do yall think?? Lyme IgG/IgM Ab <0.91 Index 0.00-0.90 Negative <0.91 Equivocal 0.91-1.09 Positive >1.09
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It's an ELISA. Your result is "negative". That being said, the ELISA is not a very good test for lyme disease. Generally, it is a clinical diagnosis. If you are looking for a more accurate test, most doctors well versed in lyme disease will skip the ELISA and proceed directly to a western blot. Most people will start with a standard test at Labcorp, MDL or Quest (typically because insurance will cover these tests) and then procede (in many cases) to a Igenix test (which is out of pocket). But again, a test (any test) should be a portion of the diagnostic workup, but is not everything. There are other medical tests to diagnose disease that are generally 100% accurate (cholesterol testing for example), but in lyme disease the testing is generally poor and the diagnosis is primarily clinical. Unfortunately, a clinical diagnosis in the absense of a confirmatory laboratory study doesn't carry much weight in terms of insurance reimburcement or disability applications.
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You got a negative on a test that misses upwards of two thirds of
the cases out there. You should search around for the study Johns
Hopkins (in basically all other respects a god-awful institution when it
comes to Lyme) put out on the currently available blood testing--
they basically concluded that it all sucks.
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