my results

no insight? :-(

I'm sorry no one answered your post sooner! From what I understand, IgM indicates current infection, while IgG would be for chronic lyme disease, or exposure (depending on who you ask). My interpretation of your results would be that they're positive, that you have an active infection, and that you need treatment! What kind of doctor are you seeing? Unfortunately, many doctors will have a patient with every single indication of an active infection and still try to brush it off as depression or something else. If you aren't seeing a LLMD yet (trained by the ILADS - who know their stuff when it comes to lyme disease!), please let us know if you need help finding one.

Many of us have been told at one time or another - or many times! - that we "just" have depression. Many of us, myself included, have even believed it, and have tried the antidepressants, have tried anything just to feel better, but just know that it's a pretty common mistake for doctors to make to brush off symptoms of lyme disease simply because they think they understand the disease, but they don't.

Personally, I think a lifestyle change is almost always necessary when it comes to these long-term chronic diseases - the healthier you are - body and mind - the easier it will be to recover, and of course the more unhealthy your lifestyle, the tougher it'll be, regardless of what condition you actually have. Maybe start with detoxing - that works wonders for a variety of conditions, especially lyme. My best advice would be to stick around here and learn what you can from our members and from old posts, and to seek out better treatment from a physician who is specially trained in lyme disease. Best of luck!

There are a number of natural approaches to lyme disease that you can do on your own (with careful research, or with the help of an alternative health practitioner - a naturopath, herbalist, etc.) I use the Buhner protocol, along with antibiotics and other medical treatment, and have had some pretty great results with it. You can learn more about it at buhnerhealinglyme.com/ and/or get his book Healing Lyme - whether you use the protocol or not I think it's a really helpful book. There's also the Cowden protcol and the Zhang protocol - I haven't used either of these two, but we have members here using those herbs with good results as well. There are plenty of herbs and natural remedies that are really helpful - you can do your own research or look through old posts here using the search function, and of course feel free to ask any questions you have along the way!

There is some information the "New to Lyme?" thread about detoxing - a lot of us on here use things like epsom salt baths, saunas, and dry skin brushing. I've become a little obsessed with detoxing these days, so I try out lots of new things all the time, alternating them all around. You can also try oil pulling, juicing and/or eating a very clean, possibly organic diet, lymphatic drainage, coffee enemas/colon hydrotherapy (that one usually takes a while to get comfortable with!), there are plenty of teas you can add into your diet to support detoxification, and probably most important, limit the toxins you put in, because they all need to come out, and with lyme a big problem is that we're burdened with extra toxins from the waste left behind when bacteria die, so generally the less toxins your body has to eliminate, the better you'll feel and the stronger your body will be to heal itself.

I've learned so much from our members here, and I'm sure you will too. It all gets overwhelming sometimes - just take it one step at a time.