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Lyme Disease Testing

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georgie Enthusiast
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Does anyone know where is the best place for Lyme testing, and if samples could be shipped across country or from Australia? My hubbie has had tests done here in Australia for Ricketsia (?) but there is very little done for Lyme testing here. Dr agreed that testing would be a good idea and sent me off on a mission to find it ! ( she is a wonderful Dr and is very busy helping so many HypoThyroid patients and she knew I could do this)

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Does anyone know where is the best place for Lyme testing, and if samples could be shipped across country or from Australia? My hubbie has had tests done here in Australia for Ricketsia (?) but there is very little done for Lyme testing here. Dr agreed that testing would be a good idea and sent me off on a mission to find it ! ( she is a wonderful Dr and is very busy helping so many HypoThyroid patients and she knew I could do this)

Igenix in Palo Alto, California, USA, is supposedly the best for Lyme testing. There is a time problem though...I think the blood has to be very fresh. So, I'd contact them before ordering anything. I'll see if I can find the link (I've got it bookmared at work, but not here at home. Here is the link:

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I'm going for testing next week.

georgie Enthusiast
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Thanks ! Just reading it now. Is Western Blot the best test ?

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You're welcome! Yes...but I think there are two and both are usually ordered. I can't remember the number...there's like a complete panel (6050 I think) that contains both panels plus more. I'll also be having the co-infections panel run I think...often there are other infections transmitted at the same time.

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I will check into this but am thinking that its only done in USA and Canada. Drats

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Yah, I don't know for sure, but that's what I was thinking. I know that even here, the blood has to be drawn in the beginning of the week, so it can reach them soon enough to do the testing. I know you can overnight anything to just about anywhere, lol, but there may be other reasons why it would be difficult.

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