And do NOT let them give you the standard ELISA test. If you have symptoms severe enough to make you wonder about any of these conditions & you have Lyme, it is already entrenched behind the blood-brain barrier. The Lyme spirochete invades theCSF and can penetrate the blood-brain barrier within 12 hours of infection. Insist on full Western Blot, PCR, or one of the newer and more reliable tests.
if the ELISA and W.blot tests are positive, the results are reliable; if they are negative, they could be wrong. PCR however is accurate, but nonLyme docs usually refuse to use PCR, believing that ELISA and Wblot are good enough. Duh.
You ask: "Any thoughts or advice on what I should do or if my symptoms sounds like Possible Lyme?" See a Lyme specialist without delay.
"I feel worse by the day for the most part and the hand tremors are getting worse.
my doctor is said to me to give pcr-rt (quantitative) test? what is pcr? I am very worried.
There is a lot of new tests but elisa is just the type of test, there are 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation of elisas, and there continue to be a lot of research for new tests, the newest teste tend to be rapid test accurate as elsia tests, there has been also improvement also in the NAAT tests, and some labs are trying to come up with a new 5th generation rapid test (PCR+Antibody+p24) but is not ready yet.
My husband had positive elisa test with 3.45 value in august 2016 for hepatitis c. Then he got treatment aND it showed 0.85 value in January 2017. He got checked his hepatitis C by elisa test again two days back. It showed a value of 85.0. He's active n doing job. No cough or any other symptoms. He did it as just a routine checkup. Please guide if elisa test can be 85.0 ?? What should we do next? Much worried! !
Dear Doc (and forum readers),
About a week or so ago I needed to get a medical check for work. When I got my results back, I was shocked to be told that the Elisa test came back as HIV reactive at 1.52. They tested it twice. I really have no idea what that number stands for, though.
I don't have sex. No girlfriend. And I don't sleep with street workers. As far as I can remember, I have not come into contact with blood (except when killing mosquitoes).
hello, i had protected sex with an hiv positive girl (i just discovered), i had sex with her twice, but she gave me several oral sex, i saw some blood on my penis in one of them, from her mouth i think.. i have no symptoms untill now, i did Elisa test 52 days after 1st time and 20 days after last time and today it´s been 2 months since 1st time (the day i saw the blood) and 1 month after our last time.
Hi i Just wanted to know how accurate is ELISA third generation tests is,
my last sex was at 04/11/2010 i did the first test on 22/1/2011 the result wasELISA : HIV1&HIV2 NEGATIVE (0.15) i started to get worried of the number so i did a second test on 15/2/2011 just to make sure that i completed 3 monthes and the rsult came ELISA : HIV1&HIV2 NEGATIVE (0.33) i freeked out why that number is keeping rising !!
There are two types of test for Lyme disease, Elisa and Western blot. Elisa is not usually that precise, Always is better to ask for western blot. But when you finance it on your own it can be expensive. Im basically through the same thing, simillar symtoms and no diagnosis. I am talking to endocrinologist now and I hope it will lead somewhere..
) To make a long story short I went for a few MRIs. They found 2 white matter lesions in my brain. I took the ELISA test which came back as false positive and then tested negative on the Western blot. This past December I had a lumbar puncture and my CSF fluid tested positive for certain Oligoclonal bands (at which point my Neurologist made a Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis), however the lab over looked testing for Lyme even though my Doctor had ordered it.
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