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My doctor tells me blood tests are unreliable for diagnosis and further confirmation testing & without an actual swab with positive result I shouldn’t worry myself with having the western blot test. But she also keeps mentioning Igm which I thought wasn’t used in texting for the virus anymore and she insists that the western blot will,just like the other tests only test for Igm/IgG is that true?? Idk what to do. I thought western blot was supposed to be more accurate. Also if these tests are known for false positives how is that determined if there is no reliable confirmatory testing? It doesn’t make much sense. She tells me if I have no symptoms don’t worry about it but I can’t not worry when I was told I’m positive for this virus per blood testing. Are false negatives something that is true for western blot as well??