Posted by bleauberry on December 15, 2009, at 18:47:19
In reply to Re: Lymes Test Interpreted Via Website By Lab » bleauberry, posted by Phillipa on December 14, 2009, at 21:23:36
Well, that is all very interesting stuff about your bones and such.
However, the part about not having lyme and not being able to ever get it again because you have antibodies...comparing it to mumps or whatever...is such absolute hogwash I can't believe he said that. Well, I take that back. Doctors believe and say some of the most ludicrous things sometimes. I would have asked him, "How do you know"? The answer to that question is...no one knows. Has anyone ever taken someone like you, with antibodies, purposely given them an infected tick bite to see if they get Lyme again? No. His opinion is based purely on pie-in-the-sky hopeful thinking.
All this, while at the time the patient sitting in front of him has a suitcase full of common Lyme symptoms staring right at him. Geez.
The fact is, I can show you numerous accounts of people who have recontracted Lyme several times with new tick bites each time. Antibodies did not protect them from Lyme. When you are talking Borellia, you are talking a much more sophisticated potent organism than the other ones he mentioned.
There is also zero scientific proof that cured Lyme patients have antibodies. In truth, cured patients show zero antibodies. Their blood is clear and clean. So sign of antibodies, DNA protein bands, or anything. Not even a hint.
The doctor is flat out wrong on this one. Ask him to show you the proof that what he says is unquestionably undebatably accurate. He can't.
The only accurate test is a challenge for a Herx reaction. Of course, he didn't mention that.
Sorry, I don't mean to rag on him. It's just that people like him get people like you and me in a lot more trouble than we deserve.
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