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Nope, never had it. Go figure.

But I do get strep throat twice a year and at least one sinus infection per season change.

I don't know if I ever had EBV, but Strep and Mono were probably my triggers and my DD had Strep and shingles at a young age, probably as precursers to her MS.

All of these illnesses lead you right back to the Herpes Virus(6, I believe)

I was tested for it several times, and always rang up negative. I chose the option that best fit "maybe but never diagnosed"

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Originally Posted by RelyonHim (Post 636255)

Although there is some presumed link...I don't know how it can be used because almost the entire adult population has the EBV.

Epstein-Barr Syndrome is very common, although most people don’t even know they’ve contracted it. It is estimated that as many as 95 percent of adults older than 35 have been infected with the Epstein-Barr virus, making this one of the most common illnesses in developed and undeveloped countries around the world.
http://www.life123.com/health/medica...ormation.shtml

This is interesting, particularly in the context of a question asking folks if they have had this. I don't know anything about EBV, but I suppose I could have had it since I'm over 35 and have had plenty of sick days along the way. I'll not go into a whole speal on pathology, but there needs to be more to the pathology to narrow down 95% of people down to the 1 in 1000ish that have MS. Here's an interesting article:

Levin, Lynn et al. 2005 Temporal relationship between elevation of epstein-barr virus antibody titers and initial onset of neurological symptoms in multiple sclerosis

I have no idea...never tested for it. But I thought that 100% of MS patients tested positive for it?

When I was in my late 20's I was dx'd with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then In my early 30's dx'd with EBS. so I have had sx for a long time but wasn't dx'd with MS until my mid 40's. Go figure:)

I tested positive for EBV and got a severe case of mono that lasted for almost a year when I was 38 years old. 7 months after that I started having MS symptoms. I had never had any strange MS type symptoms before the mono. I am pretty much convinced that the EBV tripped the switch!

Never had EBV and one of the few that have normal Vitamin D levels. Outdoorsy sort of person and drank a ton of milk as a kid - bones are very strong and it took 6 years for my braces to accomplish the job of straightening my teeth because of it. I have a couple of permenant retainers to keep it that way too. :D It took downing a motorcycle to get a hairline fracture on a bone, and was the first time I ever had something break. Considering how many trees and stuff I fell out of as a kid, major surprise. ;)

I have other possible risk factors that may have led to an MS trigger, but who knows with this thing? I chalk it up to being the lotto winner of the genetics in my family. :rolleyes:

At 19 (guess that makes me a teenager still!) I got hit very hard by mono, which lasted about 2 weeks and was the worst illness/pain I've lived through. Literally, every part of me was in pain and I slept for 2 weeks solid.

I have one of the most definite cases of MS that my doctors had ever seen, but never had EBV. Years ago I was tested for it more than once when I might have been exposed to it in college, but I never tested positive.

P.S. But there's no vote for that.