mezombie
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I should have rephrased that.
The relevance of IgG titers to current symptoms is hotly contended. It's why I put a link to the Holmes paper defining "CFS" in 1988 in my earlier post. So it's not clear that a positive IgG is evidence of a reactivated infection. Some ME/CFS clinicians and researchers are considering that it may be.
The EBV EA IgG testing is offered by Labcorp, so it can't be that unusual to request it. However, it seems somewhat pointless to do so unless your doctor understands the potential significance of the test results. There are doctors who will treat with antivirals based on postive IgG titers, but they are the mavericks.
The relevance of IgG titers to current symptoms is hotly contended. It's why I put a link to the Holmes paper defining "CFS" in 1988 in my earlier post. So it's not clear that a positive IgG is evidence of a reactivated infection. Some ME/CFS clinicians and researchers are considering that it may be.
The EBV EA IgG testing is offered by Labcorp, so it can't be that unusual to request it. However, it seems somewhat pointless to do so unless your doctor understands the potential significance of the test results. There are doctors who will treat with antivirals based on postive IgG titers, but they are the mavericks.