Lampley, your assessment of IgG vs IgM is correct. But I agree with
Marshall, if you are going with a mainstream md the testing may be
misleading. The testing, particularly the Western blot & ELISA tests,
seem more orientated toward maintaining the status quo & keeping
victims of Lyme off the Health insurers roles. The primary problem
with the tests is they are testing the blood. The Lyme bacteria
doesn't thrive in the blood & quickly, sometimes before the tick is
done feasting, the Lyme bacterias are into other fluids. If the
bacteria aren't in the blood, the antibodies will be there less than
more traditional, blood spread diseases. Also, several of the
antibody bands most likely associated with Lyme have been removed
from the western blot because they were also found in those who had
been "vaccinated" for Lyme. If those people tested positive, the
vaccine would not be classed as effective, so those bands were
removed. Purely to help the vaccine developers, no help at all for
Lyme sufferers.
The best test for chronic (Read: long term) Lyme is the Stricker
panel cd-57. If your health practitioner doesn't recommend it or
refuses to order it when you ask, s/he is mainstream & may not be
helping you as much as you now believe. Lyme is the most politicized
disease in the US. Dr Stricker had the idea of comparing the immune
system of chronic aids sufferers to those of chronic lyme sufferers.
What his study found was that the aids cases had normal cd-57, Lyme
cases had low cd-57. Mainstream (CDC etc.) dont acknowledge the
Stricker panel study because he used aids & lyme cases but no control
group. That is, he didn't compare them simultaneously to healthy
individuals. If you give him the millions of dollars needed to redo
the study, I'm sure he would be glad to. If you monitor your cd-57,
you will easily see if you getting worse. My health practitioner told
me that the cd-57 count wont go up until the last of the Lyme
bacteria is gone.
If you believe you were recently infected, thats is within weeks, not
months, & the IgM seems to indicate that, I recommend vigorous
treatment fast & for longer than you might think. I read a story of
an mainstream MD Lyme researcher who recommends 14 days doxycycline
to his patients for a tick bite but who kept his son on them for 2-3
months. The best alternative resources I have found are "Healing
Lyme" by Stephan Buhner & the books by Bryan Rosner.
(I wrote "Bacterias" above to indicate more than one of more than one
strain of bacteria.)
Best to you & to Wayne
On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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From: Marshall Dudley
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 9:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Fw: CS>Lyme titer positive for lgM ...Marshall pls
read :)
lampley lane wrote:
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*From:* lampley lane
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:01 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* CS>Lyme titer positive for lgM
I've read that lgM showing up first is an indicator of initial
infection. My test was positive for that protein and not lgG. Anybody
know if that's the case? That we caught it early maybe? Marshall?....
Still taking CS and herxing, and having a good day here and there
when
I back off of it. And no blue moons :) Blessings, Little Bird
Sorry, don't know. My experience with the testing is that you
would get
a better result by flipping a coin, and a lot cheaper too. But
that was
many years ago.
Marshall
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