She does not use the most sensitive tests available, and she does not tell people this or that other doctors use different tests. I saw Dr. Gaito 2 years ago after I crashed with severe fatigue and vision and neurological problems and had become unable to work. She said she provided comprehensive lyme testing and did a western blot with a lab in NY. I got a call from her receptionist saying I was negative for everything. I asked for a copy, and I had IGM 23 and IGG 41, which my lyme tests from Labcorp and a regular ID dr also showed, but I did not know anything. An entire year later, still very sick and without a diagnosis, I was referred to a biotoxin specialist (also an ILADS member) for suspected mold toxicity, and she looked at the lyme tests and told me I was almost certainly positive for lyme due to IGM 23 and probably had other coinfections as well but my immune system was so knocked down by being sick for so long and mold toxicity that I was no longer making all the antibodies. She ran a DNA Connexions urine PCR test, which looks for the actual DNA of the microbes rather than the immune system's creation of antibodies to them (which requires a functioning immune system), and it came back positive for Lyme, Babesia, Bartonella, and Erlichia. I have been treated now for a year and have improved, and my last western blot showed no bars at all, after years of always showing IGM 23 and IGG 41, and my Babesia titer is now showing antibodies for the first time (because my immune system can produce them, not because I've gotten a new case of Babesia). My CD57, which was low, almost doubled and is now fine, and numerous other immune markers have also markedly improved.
The $450 I spent at her office did not result in proper diagnosis or any treatment or even helpful information. Had I seen another ILADS member instead of her 2 years ago, it might have saved me an entire year of being sick. Besides the lost year of work and income which has put us into debt (from paying large sums to people like you trying to find out what was wrong with me), I am a mother of a young child-- neither he nor I will ever get back that year of my being mostly bedridden. read more