Study shows lowered carnitine levels in LD

What do you all think? Anyone have this tested? I see my pcp tomorrow and was wondering if I should bother asking him to test.

I see low carnitine can cause weakness which I do have periods of.

https://www.prohealth.com/library/study-shows-people-lyme-disease-lowered-carnitine-levels-88114?fbclid=iwar124z9xlxfdpisfcnecdxg-d0oo8hgdz0fjbai8swomsnxgfclecvkhkpk

Thanks, acarined. I thought it was interesting that everyone with "PTLDS" has low serum carnitine compared to healthy controls. Possibly another hint for diagnosis. I think I'm going to ask my PCP just because I'm curious. I'm fairly certain acetyl-l-carnitine is one supplement I have not tried yet.

In case anyone is interested, I found there can be some genetic causes of low Carnitine. Specifically, SLC22A5. I wonder if most with LD have variants in this gene. I have quite a few - out of the 27 snps for this gene listed, I am either hetero or homozygous for 18.

I will follow up on this thread with my carnitine level prior to supplementing. I also consult with Bob Miller (genetics guru) and will ask him more about this. In my report from him it says consider supplementing with carnitine, pantethine and choline if you have lots of variants in SLC22A5 gene.