Re: overactive immune system vs viral problem, treatment implications

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I don't know about EBV in particular, but other things such as Lyme can

show false negative especially in patients who are the sickest since

all the antibodies are actively engaged with bacteria trying to fight

it off...For Lyme, some patients who begin antibiotic treatment see a

postive test after being on antibiotics for a few months.

Maybe the same is true for viral infections?

EBV doesn't just go away as far as I'm aware, it's like herpes virus

and it hides out in your system.

I know I've had false negative results for hhv6 several times.

So it's possible it was just a bad test.

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> I have read about all these antiviral medications as possible

treatment

> options for chronic fatigue. I have been very optimistic about this

> method of treatment because I've had many blood tests showing I had a

> very high count of Epstein-Barr antibodies. I recently had another

test

> though that showed there was no active epstein-barr virus in my body

> whatsoever. So it seems to me that my body thinks there is a problem

> it's trying to fight off, when really there isn't. In that case I

don't

> see antivirals being a good treatment. Maybe something like a strong

> anti-imflammatory drug is what we should be looking into instead.

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> comments are welcome

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