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Originally Posted by hopeful
My Epstein Barr Virus EBNA (IGG) was high at >5. My Epstein Barr Virus VCA IGG was high at 3.60. Do I remember correctly that there is a type of Chronic Epstein Barr Virus? I've tested positive for this several years back and I know the levels can stay with you for life once your have the disease. They did not test the IGM.
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Hi Hopeful,
There may be more than one. I have a distant cousin with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) who says it is EBV, and
Chronic EBV is one of the alternative names for CFS.
OTOH, other sources draw a distinction (that I haven't figured out yet).
chronic epstein barr virus
Numbers vary, but there seems to be a concensus that most of us have the virus, albeit dormant.
I can speak from personal experience that it can reactivate in a number of ways; HOWEVER, I wouldn't jump to any conclusions because of lab numbers. At least some of the sites I read said that Chronic EBV cannot be DX'd by lab tests—ostensibly because most of us test positive for the virus anyway. A few of the sites also mentioned that CEBV is rare in the West and more common in Asia.
An archive search for "
chronic epstein-barr" turned up a half dozen or so hits; oddly none of them in the
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue forum.
Doc