HLA Testing

I am 15-6-51.

It definitely could be mold. But having the gene does not mean you have mold illness. I think finding a practitioner well versed in lyme & mold would be a good idea.

Also, many docs are no longer doing hla gene test because they are not finding it useful.

Neil Nathan’s new book, Toxic, would be a good resource for you.

I meant to add a poll to this. Didn't seem to work.

Yea i already see a lyme specialist and a mold specialist. I'm more just curious as to how many lymies have gotten tested. It is very interesting to me that Doctors don't view it as that important? Why on earth would that be the case? To me it seems like this could be one possible explanation for why certain people don't get sick from Lyme at all or at least they only get acute infections. If you cannot remove the toxins, it will have an impact on your immune system which in turn will have an impact on your ability to fight these infections.

One thing that annoys my about most LLMD's is their lack of reliance on testing, i know that is because the tests are unreliable, but so much of this is just blind faith.

Somebody said...
Oh you have x and y as symptoms, you must have Bart. Or Mycoplasma, or Babesia... oh you are not responding to this treatment, well it must be one of the other coinfections then

I know testing is expensive, but i spend so much money on antibiotics, herbals and supplements, spending hundreds of dollars on testing that's going to give you real insight seems to be really valuable to me.

Anyway, anyone else reading this, would love your comments of HLA testing and what defect you have.

k07 said...
Because doctors don’t see a real difference in patients with gene, i guess. In the book i mentioned above, dr nathan says that those with the dreaded mold gene aren’t any different to treat.

I was super worried about the lyme gene at first because it also says more susceptible to MS. I’ve kinda forgotten about it though, honestly.

Yeah, I think I read a statement that some docs say the gene doesn’t predetermine the patient’s response. It was probably Nathan quoted in conference notes or something I read. Do you know if other docs are finding this to be so, or is this just coming from him?

I know some of the former Shoemaker docs broke away and formed another organization as they were clinically seeing things that didn’t get fixed or explained with the Shoemaker protocol. Something like that.

I have the dreaded 4-3-53 multi susceptible gene and have great difficulty with treatment and have not improved much and honestly feel like I am worse of now in spite of trying to avoid mold in a reasonable manner, detoxing, taking binders, supplements and herbs for 2 or more years.

I wouldn’t say it doesn’t matter. Seems pretty significant to me. My insurance paid, so no cost to me. It’s knowledge I didn’t have before. But really, that’s all it is. Now I know, so what is the cure? There isn’t one. I do believe that herbs and other modalities can turn off gene expression, but I don’t have a detailed plan telling me I need xyz herbs to turn off xyz genes from expressing.