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There is controversy regarding the presence of active infection in these conditions because physicians, including infectious disease specialists, do not understand that the standard way to diagnose acute infections, an elevation of IgG and IgM antibodies, is not a sensitive means of detecting chronic infections in these patients (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 ,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21). With an acute infection, the body will start producing IgM antibodies against that infection and then start producing IgG antibodies after a few weeks so there is an elevation of both IgG and IgM antibodies. Chronic reactivating infection, such as those mentioned above, do not stimulate IgM anti- bodies as they are not new infections but rather intracellular reactivating infections, so most doctors, again including infectious disease specialists, will tell patients who have elevated IgG antibodies that they had an old infection or previous exposure and that there is no evidence of or they do not have an active infection because that is what they learned in medical school. This standard way of detecting active infections has clearly been shown to be inaccurate and miss the overwhelming majority of patients with active infections (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1 1,12,13,14,15,16, 17,18, 19,20,21).
If u can get a lymphocyte sub set test, i guessing your cd8 t cells will be high, its also an indicator of active herpes infections, otherwise the only way to know is to treat it and see how u respond. all we know is testing is a guide??Normal lymphos + neutros
If I were to treat with anti-virals....what would I use
Valtrex is not enough, right?
I would need either Valcyte or Famvir? Which is better/cheaper?
famvir will cover ebv plus from the link i gave u famvir is cheaper then valtrex. Its possible that taking valtrex and famvir will hit the viruses from 2 angles but start with 1.Thanks. Since I have EBV should I take Valtrex too or is it not needed?