Update: found this ILADS link (#7) http://www.ilads.org/lyme/about-lyme.php
Basic Information About Lyme Disease
There is something wrong with this test.
So I’m not going to claim to know exactly what this test is or does. I have however become familiar with the term “Kilo Dalton” which is a unit of weight used to distinguish certain proteins (using electrolysis? I dunno). I know it’s more complicated than this. I see this as a redundant test (and I think IGeneX may have hinted as much) being that if you test positive for 31 kda (KiloDalton) band on either the IgG or IgM it already means Lyme is present (Schaller). So I could have saved $300 bucks right there. Oh well.
The 31 band is known as a fingerprint band which is very specific for the Borrelia Burgdorferi bug. I tested positive for 31 (and 41 and 58.) *Update: positive for Cytomegalovirus and HSV1 also. Another abbreviated word I see is OspA which is “outer surface protein” which is what is indicated here.
Thankfully this confirms exposure to a bug that hides itself well in tissues and I can resume my herbal and traditional antibiotic treatments.
Maybe there is a problem with the tests (Lyme test? problems? Really? You don’t say!) and this may be one where due to the nature of seronegativity and the stealth-pathogen nature of the Borrelia bug itself that it evades or suppresses the immune system and isn’t always in the blood but it’s really more complicated than that but I digress.