Off to see Dr Kogelnik next month - any tests definitely to ask for?

[cfsme23]

Am travelling from the UK and am booked in for August 28th, very excited. I am sure Dr Kogelnik will do a full work up on me, but having not had any specific ME/CFS testing before, are there any labs that I should definitely been asking for? Maybe if any of his current patients could give a run down of what blood tests he offers, that would be amazing as well Cheers y'all, Rob.

 

[LHCTom]

Here is a decent list of differentials to have eliminated if possible from the Stanford website:
http://chronicfatigue.stanford.edu/overview/diagnosis.html

They also review some of infections to look for:
http://chronicfatigue.stanford.edu/infections/

You will want to have a thorough infectious disease set of tests including HHV-6, EBV, CMV, Toxoplasma gondii, Lyme - Borrelia burgdorferi, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Q Fever, Arbovirus, etc...

Natural Killer Cell Function test fro Focus Labs
http://www.focusdx.com/focus/1-reference_laboratory/print_prod.asp?unitCode=20595

IgG subclasses 1...4
http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/IgGsubclasses/subkl4.htm

Take a look at Dr Lerner's Diagnostic and Treatment guide:
http://www.treatmentcenterforcfs.com/video/documents/MECFSTreatmentResourceGuideforPractitioners.pdf

Good Luck

 

[cfsme23]

Thanks ever so much for that LHCTom, I happened to PM you a week or two back as well, hope you got the message ok. Thanks, Rob.

 

[nanc107]

Please let us know how it goes with Dr. Kogelnick and how he helped you. Thanks.

 

[cfsme23]

Will do nanc

 

[IreneF]

You should probably contact the office and ask about anything you can do ahead of time. That way Dr. K will have more information to go on.

 

[cfsme23]

I was thinking that exact same thing this weekend Irene, am going to phone the office tomorrow.