<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>rtatozer</b></i> We recently found out that no one seems to know my daughter's genotype even though she was diagnosed 18 years ago. Nothing in her files! We are now fighting the insurance company to have the genetic testing competed. Anyone else had this problem?</end quote>
Hello there rtatozer. My son just like your daughter was not genotyped either. He is 15 years old and I was told it was unneccary to Geno type back then. Now with the new drug coming out, I truely want to know if my son is in the 4% that the drug will help. So I called my CF clinic here in Dallas, Texas.
The CF nurse was very excited to tell me that they have a grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to authorize CFF MAP DNA testing. Call your CF clinic and as them if they can submit your daughter. The form is called this exactly "CFF MAP Enrollment Form DNA Diagnostic Lab at Johns Hopkins". I am awaiting approval now (takes 2 weeks). The nurse was confident that we could get this approved and all we have to pay for is the actual blood draw fee (like $25 bucks or so).
My insurance never covered Geno type testing, thats why we kept putting it off. But now..... Very excited and nervous at the same time.