IGENEX-Simple guide to Lyme testing. I hope.

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Call 800 832 3200 and ask for a kit with two SST tubes.

If you want to keep money tight use their mailer which can only be sent

Mon-wed since 2 day air fed ex.

I would get the Lyme Western Blot IgG/M and if fatigue Babesia FISH and

IgG/M (the FISH goes in routine lavender tube. If moody/agitated or cigar

shaped rash get Bartonella IgG/M.

If money available, you might get a PCR on whole blood and that is a

different tub and ask them which one.

Need a physician to give you a diagnosis and sign off on the order form for

IgeneX form that comes with kit.

And a credit card to save by prepay. They take Medicare but do not assume

will get other insurances to pay anything. Just the reality.

You will need a prescription telling the lab to give you two spun sst tubes

in which the cells are spun off and you get pure antibody filled serum, and

the lavender tube for Babesia if Migraines or fatigue.

Perhaps I missed something.

Oh yes, if you have antibodies to one fingerprint band protein and symptoms

that is a positive.

There are nine known Lyme species specific Western Blot antibodies (bands)

to unique proteins only seen in Lyme: 18, 23, 31, 34, 37, 39, 83 and 93.

Only one of these Borrelia burgdorferi genus specific bands is needed to

confirm that there is serological evidence of exposure to the Borrelia

burgdorferi spirochete and can confirm a clinical diagnosis of Lyme Disease.

This is a CLIA approved lab and perhaps their interpretations at the top are

to help stay licensed.

See what I mean below:

http://www.personalconsult.com/articles/drjonesapproach.html

Dr. J

www.personalconsult.com

Re: Comments on thiols/sulfur in diet

>

>> If you love the sulfur foods and have no problem with them, can one

> assume,

>> without testing, that you have low plasma cysteine level and start to

>> supplement Whey, RenewPro etc?

>

> No.

>

> The reaction to them is complicated and most people don't figure out

> what is going on when they get addicted to the sulfur food rush and

> feel like crap for days afterwards.

>

> What happens when someone who is high in cysteine eats sulfur foods in

> excess is that they get a couple of hours of feeling better, mood

> elevation, happiness, excitement, and positive feelings. Just like

> cocaine. And in fact the mechanism isn't dissimilar - excessive

> cysteine reacts with other things in the brain to make dopamine mimics.

>

> Then they become really hyper and babbly, and later crash into tired

> cranky depression.

>

> The tiredness and depression last several days.

>

> The subconscious works the same way it does with cocaine and remembers

> the immediate pleasurable response as associated with the food, not

> linking the later ick to it. So you crave the food, do ti again and

> again, and most of the time have a dozen tired cranky depressions

> stacked on top of each other that you occasionally alleviate a bit

> with a high.

>

> If you want to figure it out without the $35 blood test, you have to

> rigorously avoid sulfur foods for a week, then reintroduce them at ONE

> and only ONE meal with subsequent meals planned out to be low sulfur.

>

> Andy

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> This list is intended for patients to share personal experiences with

> each

> other, not to give medical advice. If you are interested in any

> treatment

> discussed here, please consult your doctor.

>