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Just by that borderline?It seems you have lyme too...
Yes, it's usually more than enough. Many people with late stage lyme don't have clearly positive results. It can turn more positive after antibiotic protocol though. Anyway according to KDM you will definitely get late stage lyme diagnosis.Just by that borderline?
Your IL-8 is elevated but not extremely.
Mine was around 1100 pre-treatment but crept up to over 20k during treatment with abx.
Are you currently undergoing treatment?
I believe @Jonathan Edwards would say that those test results are unreliable.
I have had a quick look through the literature and it seems that in published studies IL-8 levels can vary from 10 to 10,000 whether or not there is infection. I have no idea what this can mean in terms of how the cytokine is regulated but it almost certainly means that IL-8 is pretty useless as a measure of infection. It looks to me as if there is no well documented situation where IL-8 is a reliable test for infection so I would personally ignore it if it was my result.
Thank you for your answer.
I will certainly ignore it as a infection marker
But is it as unreliable when we talk about inflamation too?
With that range I find it hard to see how one can interpret it usefully but I may be wrong. If you want to know if there is inflammation I think a C reactive protein level would be much more reliable - especially if there is a series of results. I never used IL-8 as a marker of inflammation when I was in practice.