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To answer the question in your second post. NO! Heart disease, and brain cancer, heart disease, and Parkinson's are NOT complications from Hep C. Why in the world would anyone think that?

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O-bands are an indication of inflammation. Relating to MS, o-bands are found in the cerebral spinal fluid but not in a blood sample taken at the same time. The presence, or absence, does not provide definitive proof of MS. O-bands found in your CSF but not in you blood, serve to confirm other evidence of MS like lesions found on MRI's. As you point out, 99% of us with MS have o-bands unique to our CSF.

What they are look for is O bands that are in your CFS and not in your blood. It is the number of O bands that are not in your blood that they count.

Because the methods originally used to detect the O-bands had limited sensitivity, most articles in the medical literature required only two or more bands to be present in the CSF, that were not present in the serum, to confirm the diagnosis of MS. In 1994, the use of isoelectric focusing (IEF) combined with IgG immuno-identification of the bands was shown to be the most sensitive method for the detection of O-bands (Andersson et al.).

Does anyone know what it means if you have 3 bands in both the CSF and in the blood?

Hi Investit - sorry you seem to be stuck in Limboland. I too had what I thought were a bunch of unrelated symptoms, all of which were eventually connected by MS. I'm not very good at reading bloodworkresultspeak, but I see that there were 2 o-bands found in your CSF. I did not see any mention of o-bands found in your serum (blood). For o-bands to be relevant to MS, they should be unique to your CSF. This means that there are more in your CSF than in your blood.

if you have *any* of these bands show up in your Western blot, you have (or at least had) Lyme disease. Now, I know that the denizens of Lymeland are not fans of the CDC and IDSA, but I find it hard to believe that these organizations could be that inept. If certain bands ONLY occur as a result of Bb, how could they claim that you need two of three IgM and five of ten IgG? It just doesn't make sense.

1). In addition, 90% of MS patients have oligoclonal IgG bands in the CSF. Oligoclonal bands are also seen occasionally in some chronic CNS infections. The type of oligoclonal bands is constant for each MS patient throughout the course of the disease. Oligoclonal bands occur in the CSF only (not in the serum). These quantitative and qualitative CSF changes indicate that in MS, there is intrathecal immunoglobulin production.

Igenex tests for more bands, and reports the actually interpretation of the appearance of bands on a scale that includes negative, IND, +, ++, ... ++++. While all Lyme testing is dubious, labs like this that look for less bands and only report positive/negative are less informative than Igenex. What type of doctor ordered the test? As asked above, what other conditions are being considered in your differential diagnosis?

What are "bands" in the diagnosis of Lyme disease??? My wife and I have received negative results for our tests for Lyme except for "Band 14". and were told "not to worry". Can anyone tell me what that is??? Or direct to me to a website???

-) As to O-bands, for there to be an indication of MS there need to be o-bands in the CSF but not in the serum. Or significantly more in the CSF than in the serum. I'm not sure what it means if there are the same number of o-bands in both.

Uncommonly, ADEM may exhibit oligoclonal bands. However, they usually resolve when ADEM resolves. Oligoclonal bands in MS usually remain positive indefinitely. Despite these differences, up to one-third of ADEM patients are later diagnosed with MS. Furthermore, ADEM with recurrences has been described.* Have you had an LP? It appears that would be helpful in the dx mystery. Please know you are right, you are not alone.

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Hi Colleen - Sorry you seem to be stuck in Limboland. O-bands unique to CSF are a final, confirming type piece of the puzzle. Higher than normal albumin and higher than normal IgG synthesis rate are pretty far down the list in terms of their MS diagnostic value. MS is first and foremost a clinical diagnosis. Clinical findings are supported by things like MRI and LP. The proper interpretation of clinical findings + supportive testing is why it's really important to see an MS specialist.

I used Orthofill bands to close mine from Orthofill[.

My neurologist is saying that I do not have MS because my spine MRI was negative for lesions. My spinal fluid has restriction bands, I have periodic vision problems (a dark grey blob in my visual field), my EMG was abnormal (only checked legs), the EEG was abnormal ("slow brain"). I fall a lot, my tolerance to heat is zero. The neuro said I definitely had peripheral neuropathy and foot drop (only right foot), but without lesions in my spine, I could not have MS. Is this true?

Have very high Alkaline phosphotaste over 300 and GGT over 480 (and have never drank alcohol in life), and liver enzymes were still in the 100s. liver biopsy just showed fatty liver. He has run tests first ASMA and AMA were positive , then ASMA was borderline, and thinks i have AIH but not sure...he wants the rheumy to monitor me on imuran. (i can't take prednisone due to psychotic behavior when on prednisone/solumedrol)...What will it take for rheumy to confirm definitely sclerodoma.

I found an excellent site that will answer your question. Yes, O-bands are sometimes found in the CSF in the LP. However, the same number of bands are found in the blood as the CSF. In MS, the O-bands are either absent in the blood or there's two or more O-bands in the CSF. As far as I know, O-bands are not found in AS because it typically doesn't effect the CNS. Anyway, check this site out: http://www.clinlabnavigator.com/Tests/OligoclonalBandsinCSF.

Officially, with regard to MS, a positive result is 2 or more unique O-Bands in the CSF. In reality, though a few people without neurologic symptoms (maybe 10% or fewer) may have a single O-Band, it's presence is NOT normal. It points to some sort of inflammatory process going on the Central Nervous System. Since a single O-Band can be seen in people without MS and with other nuero-inflammatory diseases, they set the positive at "2" as this is best at excluding those others.

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Thank you all for your comments and suggestions on my post issue. I am in the process of going thru reams of medical records as I have had so many tests in the past 4 years to determine if this test was repeated. I know that I don't have o-bands in my serum just in my csf (12 bands) is more dx of ms than lymes but I want to do some more research. I have had chronic sinus infections including a "opportunistic" infection with the bacteria pseudomonas aeroginosa.

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