Igg 5 Igm 6 what does this mean exactly?

well it depends on who told you this. unfortuantely, lab testing for lyme does not always cooperate when determining past or current infection. I assume that your IgG bands were positive vs. Igm, which IgM normally indicates current infection.

actually a lot of people with chronic Lyme have IgM bands that are positive, so this thinking is not accurate with lyme testing.

really you cant tell when you got lyme first. Is it dormant? probablly not if you are here and having symptoms. dormant would mean not affecting you at all. Lyme can lay dormant until something traumatic happens, you get the flu, or in a car accident, then boom it flares up.


I hope this helps.

melissa

A better indication of current vs. past infection is a series of tests done at IGeneX or other tick-borne disease specializing lab. If the tests show changing bands, the infection is active. If there are symptoms and positive bands (IgM or IgG or both) then that suggests a clinical diagnosis and treatment is warranted. But if I understand your title correctly, you have either a titer of 5 on the IgG and a titer of 6 on the IgM or these are the number of positive bands on a WesternBlot test - in either case, this would be a positive test and since you have symptoms as well, should be treated in my opinion.