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When I first got sick in June of 2022, I had a lot of bloodwork/labs done. They showed that EBV was reactivated, but no one picked up on that but me! Crazy right? Now the medical community and researchers are aware of this. Find a doctor who is up to date on the research. I believe it is at the root as well as inflammation. My cytokines were also high and I had a reactivation of Parvo (another weird one). Google EBV and Long COVID. There is research. I never knew I even had EBV, which causes mono. I remember people in high school that had it, but I never knew I did. I read that one can have it without having any symptoms. Good luck and keep us posted please.
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Did you find a treatment that helped put the virus back into dormant state?
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Yeah, I remember back in the early 90s when I was furiously researching Chronic Fatigue Syndrome at a university library since I had come down with it. One popular theory was that it was re-activated Epstein Barr virus. Some people liked to call it "chronic epstein barr".
(Personally, I just went with the then current moniker of "yuppie flu", lol).
I actually cross-examined a visiting UK doctor who gave a lecture at the time who was big on that theory, and pointed out that numerous studies did not bear that theory out as a cause of the syndrome.
As I think I've described here before, my pet theory is that this syndrome--and I think that CFS and LC are likely the same, or at least strongly related--causes re/activation of any number of formerly encountered viruses or even maladies. This would also account for the highly varied symptoms that people have from it.
The challenge for doctors and researchers, then, is distinguishing cause from effect.
Ahh...some three decades later, the mystery persists...