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Ticked
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How does one know for sure if they have the various lyme co infections? Are there specific tests that are run, or is it more of a clinical determination based on the persons symptoms?
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There are tests for some of the coinfections. Quest, Labcorp, IGenex are just some of the labs that run them.

BUT... symptoms can often point in the direction of a coinfection too... and tests are not always picking up the coinfections.

[Big Grin]

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Co-infections are best tested at Igenex, Labcorp showed me Bart negative and Igenex showed me Bart positive consistently.

If they turn up negative the first time around, test again at a later date. Co-infections don't always show up in the first, second or even third tests. Some people find out years later they had co's all along.

My LLMd will test for co's a few times per year.

Here is a list of co-infections, symptoms and treatments: http://www.lymeinfo.net/coinfectionarticle.html

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