[DIYbio] Re: Can I do these tests at home? Parasites, chlamydia...

Thanks everyone! I have been dealing with giardia and its recurrence in my body due to lying dormant. It comes back a few times a year and I'm hoping to eradicate it with some herbal treatment, so it would be great to know if it's gone.

As for the chlamydia I was treated for it recently and need to be retested. But being of a DIY mindset I thought, why not test myself? A PCR test costs $250 each time in the lab, and false negatives are a possibility. So I was thinking to keep retesting myself and my partner to see if it appears to be still there.

But it sounds like the primers are the biggest obstacle to this idea. Plus there are 20+ strains of chlamydia trachomatis, from what I've heard, so if the primer is too specific, it will generate a false negative I think?

Also I have zero lab experience/skills, and reading about the NAAT process it seems daunting. Of course the thermocycler does a lot of the work, but as a lab novice/newbie I'd be clueless on the most basic steps of the process, unless I had someone walking me through it in person. It's fun to dream and imagine the possibilities, though.

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