Hi Mafixit!
Welcome to our community!
If you haven't yet, I would greatly encourage you to read through our "New to Lyme? Start here!" thread that sits at the top of the forum. It's packed with important information, symptom lists, detoxing suggestions and more.
IFA stands for indirect fluorescent antibody and the fact that it is positive means that your body is doing it's best to fight it- which is why it's producing antibodies. Unfortunately, that's not enough for most doctors to recognize and risk their license to treat you. You will need to see a LLMD (Lyme Literate Medical Doctor) that has been trained by ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society) so that you will, first of all get treatment, and secondly, you will get proper treatment so that you don't have to live with an ongoing infection.
For information on finding a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor(LLMD) in your area, you can start a new thread titled something like:"Looking for LLMD/LLND in the _______ area." Although you will need to enable your email option in your profile in order to receive any recommendations, as we don't allow doctor's names and contact info to be posted on the forum for several reasons. You can enable your email option in your profile, under 'edit profile'. Be sure to click the submit button to actually save your preference.
You can email me, as I have a list of LLMD's and their contact information and have some names for Arizona as well. Please include the area that you would like to find a LLMD in. You can email me by clicking on my screen name or the little blue envelope under my name.
You can email Stephanie at:
[email protected] You can also go to:
www.turnthecorner.org/ if you want to learn a little bit more about
Lyme Disease.
You can also go to The Lyme Disease Association and search for LLMD's 3 times in a month. You have to register first. Here is the link:
www.lymediseaseassociation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=277&Itemid=74 You can also now email TBDA (Tick Borne Disease Alliance) at
[email protected]
and ask for LLMD referrals also.
You will want to find an ILADS (International Lyme And Associated Diseases Society) trained doctor, as ID Docs (Infectious Disease Doctors) believe Lyme is hard to catch and easy to treat, and don't believe in the reality of chronic Lyme. Go to the ILADS site to read the new (2014) Treatment guidelines to get you started on your Lyme journey.
www.ilads.org/lyme/ILADS_Guidelines.pdf