Posted by bleauberry on January 23, 2019, at 9:44:11
In reply to Full Blown Relapse, posted by bleauberry on January 23, 2019, at 9:12:42
I just wanted to add that my Bartonella lab test was negative. Which is common. Our testing really sucks pretty bad. It's embarrassing actually. You would think if we could put a man on the moon we could test somebody's blood accurately, right?
Apparently there are different strains of Bartonella. As is the case with other pathogens such as Borellia and Babesia, our lab tests only cover 1 or a few of the many strains out there. And the entire science is flawed because they are looking for antibodies, which is something the lyme bacteria generally turn OFF so you aren't going to have any antibodies.
Hint: If you ever wanted to get tested for Lyme and wanted to do everything possible to make it as accurate as technology allows, then you want to take an antibiotic for a couple weeks, stop it, wait a week, and THEN take the test. The antibiotic caused pathogen deaths which then allowed the immune system to "see" them and form antibodies. There is only one good lab - IGenex. Your lab test money is likely wasted with any other lab out there. Lab Corp is said to be ok but not as good. My first Western Blot test came from Stonybrook Labs, which is second best to IGenex. In that test I had evidence of 5 pathogens. Only 2 of them belonged to the 5 the CDC requires to call it Lyme.
One of those proteins they found was from the "flagella of borellia". Well, borellia is the Lyme organism. I have evidence of the tail but not the body? I share this with you to demonstrate that even with the best testing out there, it can be screwed up. I think that since I had the tail inside of me, it is safe to assume that a body was attached at some point. Yeah?
Very, very, very, very, super important to get a good diagnosis so you know what you are dealing with. If a doc says you have depression, that is NOT a diagnosis. That is a merely a description of your symptoms.
So then they look for thyroid maybe, a blood test, maybe test for virus or whatever. And they come back and say you have low thyroid. Well, again, that is NOT the diagnosis. That is the symptom not the actual problem. If you know me, then you know I will claim that it is pathogenic microbial insult, and the resulting inflammation and toxicity, which messes everything up and destroys the brain's ability to operate the mood center efficiently. It's so screwed up that it can't work with psych drugs either. And we are all evidence of that.
Anyway, again, just sharing info in real time hoping it might open doors for somebody else who is struggling hard. Keep in mind these are my opinions, my beliefs, my perspectives, based on my experience and study, and may be different than somebody else's.
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