All tests normal but CD-57 is 17

All my tests are normal but the controversial CD-57, which is very low and actually went down to 9 after a year of treatment. I think that I am having a relapse as does my LLD, but nothing ever came up positive except this. I am on meds and tinctures but don't know if that is a good idea. I would like to go to an infectious disease doctor who also is savvy about Lyme because when you go to an LLD, I often feel that they are predisposed to find Lyme, however, I haven't been able to find one. Has anyone had this situation with this test as the only marker for Lyme? I don't have HIV, which the only other reason sited for a low count.

After spending a bit of time trying to track down any new information, I came across a post by Dr. Garth Nicolson stating, "Low CD57 is associated with Lyme disease, but it can also be associated with Mycoplasma infections without Lyme Borrelia. So it is not necessarily diagnostic for Lyme. " www.medhelp.org/posts/Autoimmune-Disorders/CD57-and-lyme-disease/show/1099856

So I would suggest you take a good look at your symptoms and see if they match up with one infection or the other (Lyme or Myco) or you could have both.

And I would suggest that you stay away from ID docs - should you have one of these infections - their track record on treating them appropriately isn't good at all. We usually have a handful of people that end up here due to having treated with an ID doc and still have the infections. I won't say that there is no such thing as an ID that is really savvy about Lyme & co-infections - only that they are like finding a needle in a haystack.