New article: "Lyme Disease and MS Can Overlap"

"Lyme Disease can cause neurological symptoms, some of which overlap with clinical and radiological findings in multiple sclerosis.

Reporting at the ACTRIMS Forum in New Orleans, LA, Peggy Cook of Saint John Regional Hospital in New Brunswick, Canada and colleagues set out to see how many of the region’s MS patients had Lyme Disease.

Since serological testing for Lyme is problematic in that Borrelia species and strains are regionally specific and have different neurotropism they performed a single-center epidemiological stuy.
The tested for Borrelia using a both a C6 ELISA and Western Blot test in both the MS patients and a healthy control group.

The MS patients were 90 people, mean age 51, of whom 73% were women. Overall, 21 of the 90 patients reported tick exposure. Lyme is spread in Atlantic Canada by ticks called lxodes scapularis, or black-legged ticks.

Of the 90 patients, 7.8% were positive for Lyme. "


www.hcplive.com/conference-coverage/actrims-2016/lyme-disease-and-ms-can-overlap

sorry to ask this dumb question....bump....does that mean "herx" or something?

High Regards

"Of the 90 patients, 7.8% were positive for Lyme. "

So, with those lousy tests...there were 7.8%.

Wonder how many more if they used Igenex...(even that wouldn't be good enough)

Have both diagnoses right now.

Always interesting to read these reports.