Hello,
I currently live in Ontario/Canada. My Dr. helped me request a CellTrend POTS panel (https://www.celltrend.de/en/pots-cfs-me-crps/), run by a lab in Germany. It is the only lab I found to offer such a vast array of auto-antibodies diagnostics for POTS.
However the shipping requirements are quite strict. They recommend a transit time of up to 48hrs, although they told me that 72hrs is acceptable.
I found this impossible to meet, specially during the pandemic. I had my blood collected at a local lab, and shipped via Fedex International Priority. In theory, they should meet the deadline for shipment, but I did not find this to be true in practice.
I do not know how anyone manages to send a sample in such a short time across the Atlantic. My sample even went to US before even going to Germany.
Is there a similar lab running these kind of POTS AAB panels in North America instead?
I currently live in Ontario/Canada. My Dr. helped me request a CellTrend POTS panel (https://www.celltrend.de/en/pots-cfs-me-crps/), run by a lab in Germany. It is the only lab I found to offer such a vast array of auto-antibodies diagnostics for POTS.
However the shipping requirements are quite strict. They recommend a transit time of up to 48hrs, although they told me that 72hrs is acceptable.
I found this impossible to meet, specially during the pandemic. I had my blood collected at a local lab, and shipped via Fedex International Priority. In theory, they should meet the deadline for shipment, but I did not find this to be true in practice.
I do not know how anyone manages to send a sample in such a short time across the Atlantic. My sample even went to US before even going to Germany.
Is there a similar lab running these kind of POTS AAB panels in North America instead?