Guest guest Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Penny- I was diagnosed with Chlamydia P. via a Quest Lab (Nichols Institute) test for IGG, IGA, IGM antibodies. I understand that the best tests for this are " nested PCR. " Lack of response, as we know, is not diagnostic since serology alone does not make a diagnosis. The work-in-progress by Wheldon and Stratton which I mentioned a while back presents cases where Cpn was suspected but serology was negative, suggesting that other symptoms warrant a trial of the dual abx plus flagyl pulse: watching for herx/endotoxin reaction as indicator, and improvement of symptoms. Below the abstract and a table from the conclusions section from a comparison study of Cpn serology tests. You can get the whole thing in pdf on a search. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, May 2002, p. 1603–1609 Vol. 40, No. 5 0095-1137/02/$04.00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Hmmm, that's interesting. Thanks, Jim. I recently discovered, when looking at some old test results, that my IGA and IGM were out of range. But nothing was made of it. It's because of the Stratton Wheldon findings that you mention, that I wanted to get the best testing possible. I've also got a prescript for Flagyl now, so will be giving that a try, see what happens. I'm not sure if it would change all that much, getting the dx, but somehow, I feel like this could give me some answers, a little better understanding why I've been slowly getting sicker and sicker since childhood. So many of the descriptions of the infection fit me so well. Perhaps it could partly explain why I succumbed to organisms (along with some other contributing factors) that others do fine with. I was often very sick as a child. Then something shifted, and I no longer got " sick " with identifiable illnesses. I just slowly started " disappearing " , no longer myself. penny > Penny- > I was diagnosed with Chlamydia P. via a Quest Lab > (Nichols Institute) test for IGG, IGA, IGM antibodies. > > > I understand that the best tests for this are " nested > PCR. " Lack of response, as we know, is not diagnostic > since serology alone does not make a diagnosis. The > work-in-progress by Wheldon and Stratton which I > mentioned a while back presents cases where Cpn was > suspected but serology was negative, suggesting that > other symptoms warrant a trial of the dual abx plus > flagyl pulse: watching for herx/endotoxin reaction as > indicator, and improvement of symptoms. > > Below the abstract and a table from the conclusions > section from a comparison study of Cpn serology tests. > You can get the whole thing in pdf on a search. > > JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, May 2002, p. > 1603–1609 Vol. 40, No. 5 > 0095-1137/02/$04.00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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