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Long Covid Fatigue - Exhausting Physically and Mentally
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Oct 4, 2022 | Replies (40)Comment receiving replies
You are not alone. I have had chronic fatigue from Covid for the past year and a half. I am very slowly getting better after learning to pace my activities and take daily naps. After meeting with CFS specialists and blood tests, it turns out that Epstein Barr virus was reactivated with Covid. I had mono in college, 36 years ago, the EBV that caused the mono laid dormant all these years until I got Covid Dec 2020. I am happy to understand why I have had this long Covid and hopeful that the anti viral, Valtrex, will put the EBV back in its sleepy spot. I’ll let you know if the anti viral helps, it’s been a few weeks.
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Julesmango, if you don't mind, could you please come back and share if the Valtrex worked to restore your health from EBV? Thank you...
Hi. I was just checking back with you to see if the medication worked for you? I was telling my neurologist about it. I hope that it did and you are all better!!
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Our daughter is 19 and has had constant ongoing fatigue as well. I actually heard that this could be a result of EBV getting reactivated. I told our MD, he ordered a mono test and it turned out negative. Is that the right test to use or did you perhaps have a more sensitive test that our primary MD does not know about? Would you please share the tests they took to determine it was reactivated EBV? We really could use your input so we can consider following the same path. Thank you very much for sharing...