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What does my test results mean
E-B Virus (EGV-Ig) Positive
E-B Virus (EBV - IgM) Negative
Interpretation of epsein Barr Virus results
EBV IgG Positive
UBV IgM Negative
Represents residual antibody from a previous infection - at least 14 - 20 weeks previously.
CMV IgG - SERUM Postive
CMV IgM - SERUM Negative
Interpretation of Cytomegalic Virus results
A POSITIVE IgG and a NEGATIVE IgM result is most likely to represent residual antibody from a previous infection
What does the above results mean? If the virus/es is so called "sleeping" can you still have symptoms of any sort? If so what are they?
As I do suffer from Chronic fatigue and I do not know the cause. This fatigue problem has been with me for the last 8 to 10 years and I am still trying to locate the cause. I do take tablets on a daily basis to keep me going from day to day.
I am just feeling so confused and very much a hyperchondriac.
In Reply to: Epstein Bar posted by Mireille Hilda Lachambre on March 28, 2000 at 01:02:17:
(I just posted the following for Stacey, below).
Epstein-Barr is the virus related to mononucleosis. I read that by adult-hood most people have the virus in their blood stream. It is not a matter of what "activates" it, but rather, that the immune system when compromised no longer keeps it "in check". In other words, in healthy adults, the EBV is kept from multiplying or replicating itself by a healthy immune system. So your worries about "spreading" the virus would only become a reality to other adults with compromised immune systems... and would not necessarily have anything to do with contact with you since they probably already have the virus in a latent form.
As far as EBV's relationship to CFS goes... as I understand it, the symptoms of CFS are mostly anecdotal symptoms that are hard or impossible to measure in laboratory tests. Tiredness, no resistance to infection, sleep disorders, mood swings, digestive problems, depression, etc. When CFS was first noticed in fairly large populations in the 1980s it was called the "yuppie disease" because hard-driving over acheivers tended to succomb to it. Many sufferers were misunderstood because the symptoms were hard to prove, and laboratory tests often checked out as "normal". At some point after CFS was first named as a disease condition, it was noticed that sufferers of the anecdotal symptoms of CFS also generally had high levels of EBV in their blood. And that was the first time a lab test could "prove" any "symptom" that was related to the host of complaints that patients with CFS experienced.
EBV is not synonymous with CFS, nor is it the same thing. But, logically, those with a weakened immune system (and CFS is a classis case of an immune system disorder) are also unable to keep the EBV in check. So the two go together, and the EBV readings are sometimes used to correlate with other data in diagnosing CFS.
I hope that information helps you understand the connection!
In Reply to: Epstein Bar posted by Mireille Hilda Lachambre on March 28, 2000 at 01:02:17:
Thanks for the info Josh. What you have told me I do know and I appreciate the time you have taken but it still does not explain exactly what my test results mean?
Maybe I did not represent myself clearly - I don't know? All I really want to know is what my test results mean and how does it affect my health at present - if at all?
You are all welcome to e-mail me if you so wish.
In Reply to: Re: Epstein Bar posted by Mireille on March 29, 2000 at 05:23:04:
Does anyone know what Cytomegaly is?
In Reply to: Epstein Bar posted by Mireille Hilda Lachambre on March 28, 2000 at 01:02:17:
HI, Mireille.
ONLY your doc, who ordered the test can interpret these for you since they MUST be taken in context of what else he knows of you. Have you asked him?
If you have and got no satisfactory response, perhaps he does not know what they mean. In that situation, he should not be ordering a test he does not understand. If you asked him and he DOES know the answer (but does not explain it TO you), what are you paying him for?
By the way, your EBV & CFS are caused by the exact same mechanisms. Spend some time in the archives & glossary for these subjects.
THEN, if you still have questions, write again.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Epstein Bar posted by Josh on March 28, 2000 at 02:38:25:
Thanks, Josh!
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Epstein Bar posted by Josh on March 28, 2000 at 02:38:25:
Thanks, Josh!
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Cytomegaly posted by Mireille on March 29, 2000 at 05:32:47:
Hi, Mireille.
It is a virus infection for those with highly stressed immune systems. See my previous response to you. The fact that you have to ask this emphasizes that response in spades. Why has your doc not explained this to you? Have you asked him? Why have you not bypassed him and gone directly to the librarian?
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Epstein Bar test results: (Ordering doc does not know what they mean?) posted by Walt Stoll on April 01, 2000 at 07:14:45:
All he says is that the virus is dormant and I should not be concerned.
What other factors have an effect on the given results?
Thanks for your assistance. I am normally very good at reading my own test results, but this one has got me going.
I have been suffering from Chronic Fatigue for about 9 yrs nw and all I want to know is what is causing this - one I know then I will know how to control/medicine etc. to do/take.
I really appreciate your assistance with this. As for cytomegly - I was asking on behalf of a friend. My test results for this was negative.
In Reply to: Re: Epstein Bar test results: (Ordering doc does not know what they mean?) posted by Mireille on April 03, 2000 at 07:37:28:
Hi, Mireille.
The only thing I can think of is for your friend to learn all she can on this BB about EBV, CFS, CFMA---they are all caused by the same thing. Then, when she has more questions have her write again.
SO, what if her test results were positive? What would her doc say? "So, THAT us what is causing all of your symptoms. Go home and live with it!"
Walt
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