QUestion about husbands lyme test results

so my husband went to a doctor who specializes in new age medicine, he seems to be pretty open minded and does both holistic and western medicine. Anyway, even though my husband doesn't present any lyme symptoms I told him to do the lyme test anyway with this doc, since he was doing a whole slew of other test. Well the results came back from Quest Diagnostics and it said he was negative (I actually got a positive result when I took it). He had non-reactive bands for everything except band 28 (IGG) was reactive. What does it mean?

Hi there...I had a completely negative test result through Quest, even though I was presenting with many Lyme symptoms. A few months later I tested through Igenex (much more accurate) and was across the board positive, Igenex and CDC positive.

If you think there's really a chance he may have Lyme, it would be worth it to test through Igenex. It was the best money I ever spent.

Thanks everyone!

Utahgirl, I remember we had the same core symptom, Anxiety/panic - how have you been feeling lately?

thanks Traveler. Yes, he has no symptoms right now (thank god!),but I was infected over 12 years ago so I just wanted him to have the test done anyway.

I am currently going through treatment, and now we know what to do if symptoms do arise. I am hopeful they wont, but if they do at least he wont have to go through 12 years of wondering what the hell is wrong like I did!

Anxiety/panic were my very first symptom. And it was real BAD. 24/7 adrenaline rushes, heart pounding, shaking, nausea, wanting to die! I was able to finally control it with the antidepressant doxepin. I only have mild flare ups around the time of my period. So I handle it with low doses of Xanax 2-3 days a month.

........However......when I started doxy, 200 mgs, 3 weeks ago, they came roaring back!! I was ready to jump off a bridge! No amount of detoxing helped. I white knuckled it for 3 weeks before deciding to switch back over to mino. After being back on mino for 3 days, the attacks are all gone. And my fatigue and weakness is less as well.

I'm not certain if that was a 3 week, endless herx, or just a bad drug choice for me. I am fine on mino. I have no negative side effects to report.

How is the PICC line? Is it helping?

Wow! I see that you just had your PICC put in, in September and you already feel some improvement! That is so wonderful!

I'm too chicken to try a PICC! Hopefully the oral meds kick in. I'm only 2 months into treatment, so maybe in another few months things will improve.

Please keep me posted on your progress as I may have to resort to the dreaded PICC if things don't improve. But I'm trying everything in my power first! .....herbs, abx, detox, diet, prayer, exorcism....LOL

I love reading good news from people! Thanks for sharing!