Recent Lyme Diagnosis, is it lyme?

Hello,

After about 5 months of being ill with a flu-like illness I came down with back in December while I was in Korea which led to a slew of various upper respiratory, GI, headache, and cardiac symptoms, my holistic/naturopathic doctor has diagnosed me with Lyme disease with some other co-infections including mycoplasma p. and bartonella henesae after some immunoblot test results revealed a couple important bands in the IGG and IGM show positive (IGG: 23,41,93 IGM: 41)... however, her diagnosis is being refuted by my group of traditional doctors who also got the results and are interpreting it very differently. My traditional doctors are saying that since at least 5 bands are not reactive, I am not positive for lyme and since I didn't have an EIA or IFA test done first, my results hold no clinical value. My holistic doctor recommends I start immediate treatment with peptides such as BPC-157 (injection and oral) and Thymosin-alpha 1 along with LDN to boost my immune system which she also believes is compromised (My NK cell count came out really low at 7). The holistic doctor is also thinking I have hypercoagultion as a thrombotic panel showed indications of thick blood (high prothrombin levels, low TAT). I'm not sure what to do as I have been sick for awhile now and it seems like it's only getting worse... I used to be very active and athletic going to the gym 5-6 times a week and sports on the weekends along with a full-time job before I went on vacation to Korea in December...but now I feel like a full-on disabled patient stuck at home and sometimes bedridden because of all my symptoms. I don't want to go down an expensive treatment path to a disease that they are not sure I actually have.. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Peter

Welcome, Peter!

The testing you had is sufficient...no need to do additional tests.
You do not need 5 lyme bands reactive for it to be lyme disease.

What's more important is you have symptoms along with those test results.

You don't need anymore testing done. You can take those tests to a LLMD ...so I suggest you start a new thread: "Looking for LLMD in/near San Diego, CA"
Then enable your email option so members can send you some options.

Don't go to an ID Dr. unless that ID Dr. is Lyme literate. (those are rare)

You can also email me...I will send you some names in the are you are searching.

We encourage all new members read through the information in the thread: "New to Lyme?..Start Here!" It's packed full of useful information.

Good luck!