Recommended autoantibody tests

[Kenny Banya]

Can someone advise or direct me to which autoantibodies I should be getting a clinical lab to test for?

 

[jpcv]

I thonk @Jonathan Edwards is the right person to answer this question... autoantibodies might show that you have some kind of autoimune response, but you don´t need them to diagnose ME and I think that there are no treatments based on what kind of autoantibodies you have.
Maybe they can help in ruling out other diseases if you have some atypical clinical features.
I have a ANA 1;160 but this information doesn´t help much.

 

[Kenny Banya]

Maybe they can help in ruling out other diseases if you have some atypical clinical features.

Thats the thing I'm wondering, since I only 'scrape in' on ME diagnosis (4 criteria 'met') but I don't seem to have anywhere near the supplementary issues that many others have.
I think I am atypical ME, so to speak.
The biggest issue I have is the symptom of post-exertional malaise - how can you identify PEM, if you're tired all the time anyway!!!!!

 

[Little Bluestem]

ME can be an "I don't know what it is, so I'll just call it ME" diagnosis. Make them do a through check for other possibilities. And no, I don't know what all tests that requires.