Yes, but as you know the result is sadly ignored due to politics because they are restricting Lyme disease to one strain (there are many others not looked at) and only using current poor detection technologies for the single strain anyway - so it's not reliable. This should change as better technology proves evidence of either autoimmunity in Chronic Lyme (a different illness to 'four weeks of antibiotics and you should be cured' - Lyme disease) and/or evidence of infection not relying on an antibody immune response that may have turned off - false negative test results and misdiagnosis of CFS incoming....
How can this be legal? Because if we're talking about ELISPOT (LTT) this does not show a
direct infection, it shows a
cytokine immune response. They can argue in court you have no evidence of positive Borrelia PCR (bits of genes from Borrelia) or Borrelia Culture to prove you have an
active infection and they'll do that by not giving you PCR or Culture which they would do if you were a politician or someone important to them. As a person with ME/CFS you are seen as mentally ill, or 'mistaken' and have Post Treatment Lyme - a nonsense as we haven't been treated yet.
Factor in, you may have a different strain so you're barking up the wrong tree completely (Other strains exist).
Factor in, you may have a tissue born infection and it simply won't show up in your blood (PCR, Culture).
Factor in, the PCR/Culture methods are also unreliable. The testing quite frankly isn't where it needs to be. The last thing I head was Dr Richard Horowitz (Chronic Lyme expert) was estimating around another 3 years until testing improves.
The only way around this in a desperate low yield way is to exhaust all current test methods to produce a dosier of positive test results. So if you were into that, consider saving up money and get a urine test like the
Nanotrap antigen test. Unlike a LTT assay, this is proof of an actual Borrelia infection. As the technology is used in an American University, it's unlikely the UK will call this a quackery test as then they are insulting the University name. So if your doctors do, report them to the American university quoting what they say about them and wait for the response and give it to influential people if it's beneficial.
A last ditch thing to do is to Fly to America (probably an absurd idea) and get an American Lyme doctor who sees you to draw blood for the
Advanced Labs Borrelia culture test that includes a photograph of the spirochetes they grow in a dish from your blood over many weeks. You might be able to get UK doctor to do this (and not fly to the USA), but they would probably have to be living in a EMP protective bunker first, or the GMC will get told, and they'll get fired for trying to help you - hence no UK doctor will
ever allow you to pay for this test privately (with their signature), but they will prescribe CBT/GET that has a null effect which is deemed far safer that an adult making their own decisions about their own finances.
Sadly, this 'dead end' Governments created by not infecting vaccines not leading to novel immune supression regarding chronic intracellular infections is why financially starved state health dependent people in the UK sell their houses and live in caravans (Vs rich Europeans who do nothing of the sort) to get hyperthermia treatment (fever therapy) in
Germany (also in Switzerland/Austria) to kill the bacteria by basically cooking it from inside.
So it seems on balance, arange a nano trap urine test and take it from there as the Health Protection Agency and other friends of the nanny state have their fingers in their ears of anything other than their state approved tests.
The sick thing about this?
The CDC don't even require a positive test for Lyme - it's just desirable and diagnosed is based on a CLINICAL PRESENTATION - as it is with ME CFS + a reported history of an exposure event to tics.
The UK NHS ignore this. So what can you do?
