After 7 years of being diagnosed with ME/cfs and fibromyalgia I just found out I have lyme disease and chlamydia pn. I sent my blood to infectolabs in Germany and this is what they found:
Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies (immunoblot)
Borrelia-Blot-IgG-antibodies negative
Borrelia-Blot-IgM-antibodies negative
Borrelia burgdorferi Elispot LTT
Borrelia burgd. Fully Antigen + 11 SI <2
Borrelia OSP-Mix (OSPA/OSPC/DbpA) + 13 SI <2
BorreliaLFA-1 + 3 SI <2
Chlamydia pneumoniae Elispot LTT
Chlamydia pneumoniae-Elispot LTT + 14 SI < 2
Im so glad my cfs/me dr. in Melbourne, Australia took initiative and did this for me. I believe I am one of hundreds of Australians who are now receiving this diagnoses. Many are fighting for this diagnosis and proper treatment as it is not recognised as even existing in Australia.
Sure, I have been to west coast US and Canada twice, however i have spent little time there - the two times I developed a lyme like fever and rashes were in Melbourne in 1992 and 2006. It does not coincide with when I was overseas!!
Unfortunately our Govt. is burying its head in the sand and our doctors are absolutely clueless (geez I even remember having scrapings of my rash sent to path. to see if it was a fungal infection) this was after a severe virus with joint swelling :thumbdown:
off to see the dr in the next few weeks to discuss treatment.
Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies (immunoblot)
Borrelia-Blot-IgG-antibodies negative
Borrelia-Blot-IgM-antibodies negative
Borrelia burgdorferi Elispot LTT
Borrelia burgd. Fully Antigen + 11 SI <2
Borrelia OSP-Mix (OSPA/OSPC/DbpA) + 13 SI <2
BorreliaLFA-1 + 3 SI <2
Chlamydia pneumoniae Elispot LTT
Chlamydia pneumoniae-Elispot LTT + 14 SI < 2
CD 57 positive NK-cells 30 /μl (range 100-360)Im so glad my cfs/me dr. in Melbourne, Australia took initiative and did this for me. I believe I am one of hundreds of Australians who are now receiving this diagnoses. Many are fighting for this diagnosis and proper treatment as it is not recognised as even existing in Australia.
Sure, I have been to west coast US and Canada twice, however i have spent little time there - the two times I developed a lyme like fever and rashes were in Melbourne in 1992 and 2006. It does not coincide with when I was overseas!!
Unfortunately our Govt. is burying its head in the sand and our doctors are absolutely clueless (geez I even remember having scrapings of my rash sent to path. to see if it was a fungal infection) this was after a severe virus with joint swelling :thumbdown:
off to see the dr in the next few weeks to discuss treatment.