I was dx with Lyme Disease a couple of months ago. I had rashes in August of 2004, and was not tested for Lyme. I have had numerouse health issues since 2004, including sleep disorders, psychiatric issues (mainly depression and ADD), muscle, back and neck pain and stiffness, etc.....

I was put on doxy for 3 weeks and I thought I had felt a little better, as far as the fatigue anyway, at the very end of the tx. I went to an Infectious Disease doctor and he had not yet seen my test results and kept saying, "if this is Lyme...". I got a copy of my results and faxed it to him. He did put me on another course of doxy even without seeing the results (which I am currently taking).

I didn't feel any better this time around...actually I feel horrible today, but not sure if it is from the die-off of the bacteria or not. I feel like I took too much cough medicine or something...my head is heavy and woozy. I am irritable, have a sore throat, headaches and some coughing last night (think it was post-nasal drip).

Anyway...my main point of confusion was my test results....

Western blot IgG was negative (only showed P41 band)

and IgM was positive (only showing P23 and P41 bands).

What does that mean?

Also, my CBC had low WBC and high Monocytes. My platelets were down about 35,000 from my usual of over 200,000.

Is it possible I have another problem going on? Why are my WBC low? and my platelets dropping?

It is not helping I havent heard from the doctor yet about my bloodwork after I faxed them for his review.

Sorry this is so long, I just am getting worried and I am tired of feeling so badly.

I would suggest you print out a list of symptoms and co infections, mark which ones you have, and contact a LLMD (lyme literate doctor)

To answer your question, yes you could still have something else going on, BUT if you had the bullseye rash, I would venture to say that lyme is there as well. While you're waiting to find an LLMD start building up that immune system. Print out Bruscannos guidlines, those too can be found thru posts here too. He was really the pioneer of lyme treatment (he treated Daryl Hall), he's retired now, but his guidlines are really all we have. He says that some people can't take abx (like our friend Julie here), and in that case, building up the immune system is what needs to be done. And thru the research i've done, it's almost imarative for all of us to do, it's a must.

Post edited by: Jenn56, at: 01/11/2008 08:19

Post edited by: Jenn56, at: 01/11/2008 10:04