Re: Re:Genova Labs 3 day Stool Test

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Beatty,

Thanks for responding. My results did not list any pathogenic bacteria. Do you know if they are only listed if found, or maybe my doctor did not request that result?

I'm a little surprised more doctors do not do this test, or at least that no one ever suggested I have it done til very recently. Also, this all comes back after I just had a slew of blood tests done and they were all normal - including the Sed Rate, which the 2 obviously conflict regarding the status of my inflammation.

Tasha

Subject: Re:Genova Labs 3 day Stool TestTo: BTVC-SCD Date: Friday, May 14, 2010, 8:15 AM

Tasha,My son has had the Genova test done. Its benefits for him were two-fold.It seems to be the most accurate testing for C-diff - I could send the sample to Genova and to a local lab, and the local lab would give a false negative. (I believe Genova was accurately positive based on symptoms - it's since tested negative by them after Vancomycin treatment.)Also, it identified pathogenic bacteria and gave both prescription and natural agents for killing them (they actually test susceptibility of the bacteria to different things). In my son's case, all the bad guys were susceptible to Cipro, so that's what the doctor prescribed and it really helped his symptoms. They wouldn't allow him to stay on Cipro long term though, because it's a broad based antibiotics, which means it also kills the good bacteria and can allow the C-diff infection to recur. But seeing the response to Cipro made the

GI doctor have my son then switch to sulfasalazine (the sulfa component has antibacterial properties without being broad spectrum, so no C-diff issue) and that has been working well.Sally

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Beatty, Thanks for responding. My results did not list any pathogenic bacteria. Do you know if they are only listed if found, or maybe my doctor did not request that result? I'm a little surprised more doctors do not do this test, or at least that no one ever suggested I have it done til very recently. Also, this all comes back after I just had a slew of blood tests done and they were all normal - including the Sed Rate, which the 2 obviously conflict regarding the status of my inflammation.I believe inflammation levels can vary, sometimes day to day. That's certainlywhat my body tells me, in any case. So there may be no conflict with the status of yourinflammation levels. Mara