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lady_express_44 · 08-06-2008, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by CayoKay

IgG Banding is commonly found during a current or very recent exacerbation. It is present in 50 - 75% of patients undergoing a diagnosis for MS, and eventually in 87% - 95% of all MSers.

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/3468/gloss1-o.html

This is kinda' funny, the way they have written this explanation . . . it (almost) implies that exacerbations influence whether O-bands will be found at any point in time.

I guess what they mean is that if a person (without a current dx) is currently in an "attack", that might be a good time to test them. Otherwise, it is my understanding that once we have O-bands, we always have them. That is not necessarily true for other diseases, because those people "heal" from the disease (and O-bands). . . but apparently we don't.

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Originally Posted by BBS1951

I had only one O-Band. Do normal people have one O-Band? I nver understood what themeaning of "one" O Band is.

Apparently one band is called a Monoclonol band (HA!

), vs our Oligoclonal bands. It seems we need two to assist with the dx:

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=18296300

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligoclonal_bands

Cherie