Test results. Please help

HI all. Hope you all are feeling well.

Just got my MDL results. This is what I got back-

EBV- VCA: IgG pos( 7.31)
HHV6: IgG pos ( Odr 4.45)
EBV-EBNA IgG pos (3.91)
Lyme disease western blot: IGm pos
Mycoplasma pneumon IGg pos
Yersinia IgA Pos
Boriella afzelli western blot IGG pos

Anybody know what to make of this?

Also they tested candida albicans real time pcr- is that a good test and is it indicative of no candida?

How much stock should I put into these results?

Thankyou for taking time to read and consider.

Post Edited (Lightlife) : 12/27/2020 8:38:48 AM (GMT-7)

Hi, Lightlife. Sorry you didn't get any replies. Usually people respond to posts about test results, but I guess the holidays were a distraction.

I have no special familiarity with the lab you used, but I am familiar with what you were being tested for.

A very high IgG result can mean active (or reactivated infection). Generally speaking, IgM means current infection and IgG means past, but it's not always so cut and dried, especially for those of us with immune dysfunction.

HHV6 is a common thing to be positive for, as is EBV. My EBV titers are always extremely high. This is common for folks with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis, especially. Most people have several viral antibodies because we've all been exposed to various viruses in our lives, but for those of us with chronic illnesses and immune system issues, it's good to consider the overall load on your immune system. My LLMD likes to treat people with high virus titers (including IgG) for chronic viruses using monolaurin, olive leaf, or prescription antiviral meds, just in case those viruses have been reactivated or are causing an overall drain on the system.

Yersinia pestis is spread by fleas and is known as the plague. It sounds scary, but a lot of people test positive for exposure to it if they happen to be tested for it.

Lyme doctors like to test for these to get a picture of the overall number of things your system has been exposed to and how stressed it might be. They're not really looking for some sort of silver bullet that will be the key to your recovery. It's more about the quantity of positives, rather than the specific positives, at least for my docs.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is also very common - both as a tick-borne co-infection, and just in general. Half of my kid's friends have had it in the form of the respiratory bug "walking pneumonia." Here's what Rawls has to say about it: https://rawlsmd.com/health-articles/mycoplasma-the-most-common-lyme-coinfection

The Borrelia species can be caught outside of Europe. There are lots of Borrelia species, and there aren't tests for all of them, but fortunately they tend to respond to the same treatments, to some degree.

I'm not sure about the reliability of candida testing.

excellent post by Sara - I think it a very good balanced overview and covers most of the bases.

I am also positive for Mycoplasma Pneumonia - but it is very hard to pick out just how much impact it may be having on my overall condition.

i tested positive in both IgG and IgM - which tends to point to a more ongoing or recent infection.

typically IgG are the long term antibodies made after we have been exposed to an organism for months - so having those to these very common organisms is very common.
(note this does not necessarily apply to borrelia antibody tests in chronic Lyme however so there is a provisio there)

some clinicians try to relate the titers of these antibodies ( roughly translates into the number of antibodies to a certain organism ) in your system to the degree of infection - but this is not a very reliable method - just another indication to be considered.

one of the problems with chronic illness and with chronic Lyme, in particular, is that it messes with the normal functioning of your immune system. thus some people with Lyme have no antibodies to things you would expect them to have - or their immune system may no longer be able to suppress common pathogens or even viruses or community-acquired infections that you picked up years ago but have been kept suppressed for years and years.

also, as sara suggests - each lab will use different tests and standardizes them their own particular way - so to better interpret the results we kinda need to know what the ab considers its normal ranges

if you post the full text of the report we may be able to help with the interpretation
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or just take a photo and upload it to somewhere - and put a link here

you can upload a photo of it here if that helps

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