Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Chronic Lyme Disease Validation Survey

6 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD explains two ways to assess Lyme disease at home: a symptom questionnaire and lab testing using Igenics technology. The lab test is about 90% accurate at detecting Lyme if you have it, and nearly 100% accurate at ruling it out.

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About 90% ("if you have it, it's about 90% accurate").

About 100% for ruling out disease ("if you don't have disease, it's about 100% accurate that you don't have it").

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Lyme disease is everywhere, and now more than ever, it's important that people from home, without needing to see lots of fancy doctors need to be able to figure this out. There's two ways you can do One is a validated symptom questionnaire, which I talked with Dr. Horwitz about last week. If you want more information about that, you can look at our YouTube video discussing that and click the link there to get his validated symptom questionnaire. But you also need testing. I recently found out about a lab that uses Igenics technology that you can actually have incredible sensitivity and specificity. What that means is if you don't have disease, it's about 100% accurate that you don't have it. If you have it, it's about 90% accurate. This may not be.