Help with Lyme and Co-infections, Viral testing

[Mel9]

@Mel9: How long have you been taking ABx and with which results?

Hi @Markus83
I have been on Clarithromycin for a few years and added Zinnat a year ago. Then my LLD put me on Doxycyclin a few months ago. I then started IR saunas. Suddenly I felt fabulous! Not ill. But still having to Pace myself to avoid PEM.

Then, because I read so many people claiming that LLDs were keeping patients on antibiotics too long, I (stupidly) decided to experiment on myself.

Two weeks ago I stopped taking the Clarithromycin and Zinnat. At first I felt no different and thought that maybe my Borrelia afzelii infection had, after all, been vanquished.

But then, gradually, my health deteriorated until I couldn’t do my one hour per day in the kitchen. Then, I could no longer sit in the lounge but was confined to bed all day. Finally, three days ago I realised I could no longer sit up in bed but needed to lie flat all day.

Yesterday I started taking my antibiotics again and today find I am gradually getting better. Today I am able to sit up in bed for a few hours before lying down again.

Hopefully I can again regain the health I had achieved by years of antibiotic use.

I no longer have any doubts whatsoever about the value of these antibiotics (FOR ME) (added as edit). They are definitely bacteriostatic, keeping the Lyme bacteria under some form of control, without actually killing them.

 

[jason30]

I am currently searching for a reliable Lyme test.
Apart from IMD Berlin, I found this test:

The b16+ tests (antibody tests)
https://www.deutsches-chroniker-labor.de/en/testverfahren-2/b16-test.html

The B16+ test for diagnosing Lyme disease has numerous advantages:

Firstly, it doesn't comprise just one test, but a whole series of 16 mutually coordinated individual tests which are evaluated as a whole. The German Chronic Disease Laboratory's test procedure is more accurate and reliable than many of the tests currently available on the market.

The laboratory specialises in detecting various Borrelia antibodies and co-infections. It uses not just one but a whole battery of tests to obtain better results.

Does anybody know more about this test? Is it reliable?