Lyme disease help?

Lyme Disease WB Test Result Help?

• I've had the Western Blot test done many times. This is my most recent one for March & this is what it says.. IgG P93- Absent IgG P66- Absent IgG P58- Present- Abnormal IgG P45- Absent IgG P41- Present- Abnormal IgG P39- Absent IgG P30- Absent IgG P28- Absent IgG P23- Absent IgG P18- Absent Lyme IgG WB Interp. - Negative Positive: 5 of the following Borrelia-specific bands: 18, 23, 28, 30, 39, 41, 58, 66, 93 IgM P41- Present- Abnormal IgM P39- Absent Igm P23- Present- Abnormal Lyme IgM WB Interp- Positive- Abnormal In another section of the test it says.. EBV Acute Infection Antibodies EBV Ab VCA, IgM - 1.7- High I have a very vague understanding of the results. I know IGm is current, active exposure & IgG is a past exposure. I would just like an opinion from someone else, or a similar experience to share. I have all the typical symptoms of Lyme, for the past 8 months. Thanks :)

• Answer:

  You need to discuss your labs with the doctor who ordered them. Your doctor has copies of your previous labs in your chart, can make a comparison and can interpret these recent results. This cannot be said about people at Yahoo! Answers. I cannot interpret these labs for you (that's your doctor's job) but I can give you general information. Ig's are immunoglobulins. They're antibodies and antibodies are proteins made by the body in response to an antigen (foreign protein). Did you have a CSF band study or was this using blood plasma? It's on the report: "Positive: 5 of the following Borrelia-specific bands: 18, 23, 28, 30, 39, 41, 58, 66, 93". I can put this another way...a result that's positive for Borrelia burgdorferi, or B. burgdorferi, will have abnormal levels of five specific immunoglobulin bands from the following: P18, 23, 28, 30, 39, 41, 58, 66 & 93. Bands are designated with P and a number. The EBV is another matter. This is Epstein-Barr virus. The EBV Ab VCA IgM is Epstein-Barr virus immunoglobulin M antibody to viral capsid antigen. It's a test that looks for the specific antibody, IgM, to determine if there's a current or recent infection. The normal range (negative) for this is 0.0-0.8. Your lab may use a different reference range. Your symptoms could be due to an active EBV infection so follow up on your labs. Again, please confer with your doctor.