Re: Mircroscopy and other tests for borrelia, FOR ERIC

[Guest guest]

I can tell you that there are people that test CDC positive for Lyme

through conventional accepted diagnostic labs (my brother in law on

Cape Cod is one) and only gets 'symptoms' after the Umpteen bite and

an aging immune system.. he gets totally asymptomatic after 60 days

on DOxy or Tetra and he still tested positive 6 months after he was

feeling better.

Supposedly... these tests are specific enough so that if bands DO

show- they are NOT cross reactive or from non specific Bcell

stimulation..

IMO- all the testing can be critisized- all of them..and I do.

So I hear ya.

Barb.........

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<usenethod@...> wrote IN PART:

Finally, I have a question. Are healthies on the street *completely*

unreactive on a lyme WB, or do they have trace bands? If they do, it's

pretty easy to argue that nonspecific B cell stimulation due to

inflammatory disease should amplify their bands somewhat. If their

lyme WBs are usually absolutely blank, then it's harder to argue that

inflammatory disease would cause them to " sprout " some faint anti-Bb

bands. Which scenario is the case, I really don't know, but it's

probably in the literature somewhere.

I guess that, considering how I have more questions than answers, my

tone in discussing IGeneX was more critical than I can really justify.

Still, I do have the questions.

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