Ha! Yes, lucky you...sort of. Anyway you are right, the culture is now the 'gold standard' method of testing. Heck if I had known that in the beginning I would not have done the other tests. The...
That's good information, thank you. I am seeing a LLMD, who had her training under a well respected older LLMD who has been around for many years....even with two positive igm and one pos igg, she...
Yep...sounds familiar. Some days its worse than others, so when I'm on a good day I feel amazed that I can finish a thought without hesitating! Oh the things I get happy for these days. :-)...
Hi Onward, A couple of months ago, before I got a LLMD, I spent $1100 on a test kit from Igenex to test for lyme and bartonella. It took over two weeks for the results and in the mean time had seen...
Hi iwaantmyhealthback...over a year ago, I almost settled for the dx of having CFS, but symptoms were getting worse and no PCP could tell me what it was. Finally was told to go to a rheumatologist,...
Hi Scott, I'm fairly new as well but your story is all too familiar to me. What I have learned in my quest to find answers, is that lyme disease and coinfections are not going to be comsidered by a...
APWreck...hope you finally got some sleep. I have to take a combination of things to help get me there and keep me there..I cant say for sure when my symptoms started but i can look back now and...
APWreck, ShChic is right, the Erlichiosis is like anaplasma, a coinfection of lyme. So that and the mycoplasma is what needs to be treated first, as i understand. Its like for my lupus, if i kept on...
Oh wow....very similar. Well, here goes, chronic fatigue, Relentless brainfog, hard time getting words out, short tem memory is bad, cant concentrate on anything for too long, jaw and throat...
Hi There, i just recently found this site, hopefully someone else has the same situation as myself. Just over a year ago i was diagnosed with Lupus and fybro...but have been getting progressivly...