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WyoWhy
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That's it. That's my question.
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I'll have to check my husband's labs from a couple of years back. There are people here who have autoimmune expression of their Lyme disease.

Another place to check out is www.roadback.org. It's a site dedicated to the treatment of autoimmune disease with antibiotics. Lots of people over there who have treated rheumatoid arthritis successfully with antibiotics.
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Thanks. Just wondering if the body fighting off Lyme naturally raises the RF causing more confusion and ending up with lots of arthritis diagnosis's.

I think I'll post this under medical too.
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I have had an elevated RF from lyme disease, I do not have rheumatoid arthritis. I have heard that you can have an elevated RF, as well as positive ANA with other things, inflammation one of them.
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I had a positive ANA at one time. Normal after Lyme treatment.

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i also had a positive ANA from lyme.
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