vision blue
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Just thinking out loud since not sure if i should purse this lead or not. In 2107 unexpectedly a ubiome test i did for fun on 5 sites, turned up bartonalla on 3 sites. i repeated it in 2018 or was that 2019, on just my skin (on a lesion) the following year, and again found bartonella, this time in higher quantity. but Ubiome has been contradictory on the issue of how commonly this is found in their comparison samples no matter how much i try to get them to clarify.
last year , i did test for igg and igm antibodies to the 2 most common types at a conventional mainstream lab (becasue of the ubiome bartonella result) . they were both negtive, but i've hard if you really do have a bartonella infeciton, this is common to have such false negtives.
so i dont' know how far to take this. On the one hand, it would fit my symptoms extermely well, right down to some oddities (like some retina and eye thngs), as well as being in a very heavy lyme endemic area at just the suspect time with dogs and fleas and the whole bit. On the other hand, its not the first time things seems to fit all my symptoms (like mast cell overreaction) and uBiome i don't think can be trusted.
i know about igenex and galaxy labs, and i can get the tests ordred. but the time and effort and expense, i just don't know if this is a worthile basket for the few eggs i've got left. Oh, a real expert in the area thinks bartonella on skin and nose and mouth (also found for me) would indicate active infection- if you can trust the lab, but i don't think ubiome can be trusted even before the news on the company as of late.
last year , i did test for igg and igm antibodies to the 2 most common types at a conventional mainstream lab (becasue of the ubiome bartonella result) . they were both negtive, but i've hard if you really do have a bartonella infeciton, this is common to have such false negtives.
so i dont' know how far to take this. On the one hand, it would fit my symptoms extermely well, right down to some oddities (like some retina and eye thngs), as well as being in a very heavy lyme endemic area at just the suspect time with dogs and fleas and the whole bit. On the other hand, its not the first time things seems to fit all my symptoms (like mast cell overreaction) and uBiome i don't think can be trusted.
i know about igenex and galaxy labs, and i can get the tests ordred. but the time and effort and expense, i just don't know if this is a worthile basket for the few eggs i've got left. Oh, a real expert in the area thinks bartonella on skin and nose and mouth (also found for me) would indicate active infection- if you can trust the lab, but i don't think ubiome can be trusted even before the news on the company as of late.