cd 57- have anyone done this blood work

[maya4444]

Hello everyone, i have been diagnosed with Lyme for few months now after having major issues. I have been on doxy for 1.5 and it really effected my GIl, so now i am taking Cats Claw and was able to go back to work, otherwise i was working from home. It has been so so hard as many of you know, plus its given me anxiety and just feel stressed all the time.
I found a good Lyme specialist and he suggested that i do CD57 to see the stages of Lyme, mine was 145- does anyone know what that means. I get to see him again on the 4th of November to figure out another protocol, but meanwhile i will keep drinking cats claw.

Thank you for any response.

[JackieCalifornia]

Not sure what my current CD57 is .... haven't seen the Lyme doc for quite a while.  But the good news is:  I am back to my old self, full of energy.  

For a while I was on thyroid supplements, but am now off of them -- I don't know why exactly, but perhaps it took time for my thyroid to come back online.  Just going with it!

[carrie235]

May:

Before I started ABX treatment, my CD57 was 100.  After treatment, it has gone down to 47.  My LLMD puts a lot of weight on the CD57.  

I can certainly tell that my immune system is not working well right now because of some other issues I have.  I think that while on ABX, our immune systems think that the ABX are taking over and that our immune systems naturally go lower..I think I read this.  It makes sense that that would be true since that is what happened to mine.  I just hope that my immune system recovers after all this...

Jackie:  Now that you are feeling better, what is your CD57 at?

[JackieCalifornia]

Everyone is different, and there are no magic cut off levels for CD57, but here is what one website indicates:

above 200 is normal
below 20 means severe illness
0-60 is seen in chronic Lyme disease

If those levels are correct, and if your MD agrees with those levels (it's all a matter of interpretation), then you are low, but you could be worse.  My own CD57s ranged from a low of 60 up to 132 while I was ill, so you are beating me!  

Everyone's immune system is different, tho, so what's high in one may be low in another, and I think (but I'm not medically trained) that what matters is how you are over time and what your own personal 'normal' range is ... tho it's hard to tell since all or most of us never had CD57 tested before we got sick with Lyme!

Hope you start feeling better.  Let us know how you do, okay?