doctors visit

Hi everyone

went to see a GP for the first time last wednesday armed with my info and gave all my symptoms including my bullseye rash confirmation from almost 3 years ago, explained I had not been ok from then on in, explained I had lived surounded by meadow, Deer, Squirrels and other wild life, so on and so on, now have to have blood tests for rumotoid atheritis, I got a bit annoyed at this point, Th GP said it would show if anything else was elevated ?? not sure what that means, can LD show up in these tests or can these test pick up something is wrong, can anyone please help me with this

Hi Cajungrl
sorry its taken me so long to thank you for your reply, had a hectic week with half term school holidays.
Thank you for your helpful advice, I really need to get this western Blot test done but of course I am up against the Dr wanting to do other tests first for other things, do normal GPs offer the W blot test or is it only LLMDs have that facility ?.

I hope you are a good day

I'm currently in more or less the same situation as you, although my GP said that Lyme doesn't exist in the UK

If your an NHS patient the Westernblot test is avaiable through them but the protocol, if you can find a doctor willing to test you in the first place is for you to have the Alisa test first, then you would need to put pressure on them and hope that they give you the Westernblot which will be done through a lab in Scotland, alternatively its a case of going to see a private LLMD and getting them to do the test for you and sending it out to Igenex, from what I've learned so far the cost for this is around £600 for the test plus the consultation fee, if you go the second route from that point forward its all private, if you do actually get a result through the NHS then you'll probably get a 2 week course of antibiotics as standard then struggle to get more, I've got some details of LLMD'S and the NHS lab, if you need them give me a shout, Andy