Of course, modern medicine gives everything a label. Sometimes that label is fully descript
ive and makes sense, sometimes it doesn’t (Like the fibromyalgia label).
In my case, immunocompromised IgG deficiency or hypoglobulinima are two technical Descript
ive Labels for the same thing. I’ve had this condition Starting around 2018, after treating tick confections with antibiotics. A never improving CD 57 let me down an inquisitive path for other related immune cell testing.
Sidenote, there is a gene associated with this, and I have it. Maybe lyme finally flipped the gene switch “on” when I was taking lyme antibiotics. Just a guess. My immune protein test levels were always good before 2016 or so. You are born with the genes you have , however they are not always switched “ on”. Stress, or other illness usually does this.
immunologist prescribe IVIG for it (Can be very costly ) but, Unfortunately, do not look for the cause. Well, isn’t that surprising! Another failure and modern medicine as far as I’m concerned.
So I’ve waited five years for my immune cell levels to naturally improve, and they did not.
I do not know if this is permanent and I want to test it to see if I can change the levels. Along with that thinking:
1)I do not have signs of any tick infections left. When I did have these, the symptoms list was about
10 items long.
2)However, I did recently discover that very potent probiotics drastically improved my gut health and sleep, Which tells me I technically had an infection in my gut. I don’t know if that was enough to compromise my immune system for five years.
3) I doubt there is any doctor that is willing to give me antibiotics, just to see if my immuno deficiency levels improve. They are not test engineers and do not think like that, however, they should in the perfect world.
Then:
Plan A) Take Higher quantity of probiotics for a couple more months and then Retest IgG.
Plan B) take my old tick antibiotics (if still safe to use ) for a few months and then retest IgG. These kill just about
everything, not just tick infections.
This is also why I posted the safety question on old antibiotics in a separate post.
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Edit, plan C:
To give up and have IVIG which can be expensive depending on health insurance coverage. At a minimum it’s $1000 for me per session. In rare occasions, several sessions can sometimes permanently improve immune cell levels. This is usually not how it works, usually you need to do this every six weeks to two months. I certainly do not look to a financially draining future this is why I’m not fond of this idea. A trial of one or two sessions could be interesting, but not something I want to repeat unless I absolutely had to and was near death from upper respiratory infection (Which can happen in IgG deficiency).
(IgG is mostly your immune army against bacteria, not viruses. This is why Covid did not do much to me since it’s a virus.)
Post Edited (astroman) : 5/25/2024 11:49:29 AM (GMT-8)