Posted by bleauberry on December 14, 2009, at 18:21:58
In reply to Re: Lymes Test Interpreted Via Website By Lab » bleauberry, posted by Phillipa on December 12, 2009, at 20:01:15
I'm sorry to hear LabCorp was the lab. They do not specialize in Lyme and have higher inaccuracy rates than labs that do specialize. Without even seeing the results, if you could give it a score for importance, on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being very high importance, I would give the results of your test about a 3. Any doctor who knows Lyme knows that the test is pretty much a procedure they have to do but isn't really very helpful. Someone can be sick as death with Lyme and come up negative on the test...that happens at a rate of 1 in 3 people. Unfortunately modern technology has not yet found a foolproof diagnosis of Lyme, and that is why it is a clinical diagnosis first and foremost, based on symptoms and history.
As I totally believe, the best test is a challenge test. Take Doxycyline full dose for 2 weeks and see what happens. Take Cipro for 2 weeks and see what happens. If you know what a Herx is, and you get one, diagnosis made, 99% accurate.
In the absence of a cooperative doc, it can be done by yourself with inexpensive things like:
Japanese Knotwood (Resveratrol)
Andrographis
Cat's Claw
Coptis RootOf the above, I have had the most severe Herx's from either Cat's Claw or Coptis Root.
I don't know about osteoporosis, except that it is one of the myriad complications of other diseases.
The book again is called Healing Lyme by Stephen Buhner. It's been on the market for a couple years.
> Blu it was a Western Blot for Lymes. But labcorp did do or run the test. As for the bands no idea as the dummy girl in the docs office failed to mail the results as promised to me but managed to fax to the docs office I see Monday for both the bones and lymes. He's the blow off doc and he worked in lymes in Westchester county NY and Yale. Check his name via Goggle Dr. Robert Kipnis. It will bring you to the practice. Also what do you think of evista for the bones definitely no biophosphinates and looked at Barnes and Noble, and Borders for the books today not available evidently a new one due in April. Amazon has the one you suggested first. But will wait til Monday to order. Also copy and pasted the info you provided on the herbs thanks Phillipa also a new supplement googable called www.growbone.com. Contains strotium considered toxic also?
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