Re: Testing for parasites; and retesting

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--- RJGoldsmit@... wrote:

Robin, I'm concerned. I'm about to go to Quest to get

what I know to be a confirmation that I have

parasites. Did you get retested there? Did you have

a difficult time conviencing your doctor you have

parasites in light of the negative test. Are you

covered by insruance? And if so, did they balk at

having any retests? Has anyone else had difficulities

with testing and retesting? I'm already sensing

conflict with my insurance covered gastroentenologist

about the source of my illness. I'm concerned the

insurance coverage will be denied with one negative

result. Thanks Matty

> From: RJGoldsmit@...

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>

> In a message dated 1/9/0 19:57:17,

> webmaster@... writes:

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> << Has anyone on this list tried to discover

> specifically what parasites

> they are infected with? >>

>

> I have done so and my tests came back negative, even

> though I specifically

> included specimens of the parasites I harbor in the

> stool samples. This

> happened once with Quest labs ...

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In a message dated 1/14/0 20:39:55, mattyoshea@... writes:

<< Robin, I'm concerned. I'm about to go to Quest to get

what I know to be a confirmation that I have

parasites. Did you get retested there? >>

I did not get retested at Quest. I did not even know that they had a

retesting policy. The MD I went to who was covered by GHI (my insurance) did

not offer me this option.

<<Did you have

a difficult time conviencing your doctor you have

parasites in light of the negative test.>>

Oddly enough both the GHI doctor and a " tropical medicine " doctor my sister

sent me to did not disbelieve that I had parasites after negative tests.

(The trop med doctor did the tests in his own lab). They just didn't really

know how to treat them since nothing identifiable came up on the tests. The

GHI doctor suggested I continue with my herbs and the tropical medicine

doctor prescribed a broad spectrum vermifuge which worked ok but really no

better than the Awareness products. Actually not as good.

<<Are you

covered by insruance? And if so, did they balk at

having any retests?>>

My insurance covered the first doctor, as I said, but not the second one, who

was very expensive, on Fifth Avenue in New York. Actually I wouldn't have

gone to him except my sister insisted I go and she paid.

<< Has anyone else had difficulities

with testing and retesting? I'm already sensing

conflict with my insurance covered gastroentenologist

about the source of my illness. I'm concerned the

insurance coverage will be denied with one negative

result.>>

Do you sense conflict with your gastroenterologist or with the insurance

company itself? You can't really know about the insurance until you try.

Perhaps if you switched doctors and they ordered different tests--at least

through different labs--it would slip through the insurance? Although all in

all the fact is you can get tested until your face turns blue and still come

out negative when you are very positive--the tests just are not that

reliable. And I'm not sure the Rx drugs are any more effective than the

herbs. The one I got was not.

Robin G..