EBV or just a run of the mill virus?

I've had chicken pox, shingles, and mono. I am aware of the herpes links between them.

Just about going along time wise with my recent reduced body pain/inflammation- I had been bothered, maybe 3 times now, with lower neck and triceps area ( say area because my triceps are no longer existent), swelling and soreness.

I would do a daily lymph node massage routine and the pain would disappear in a day or so.

Today it is back with a vengeance. Now my neck crackles when I turn my head, my throat is swollen and scratchy sore.
So far I don't have a fever, though it sure feels like it. I am actually throwing heat off of my body but I'm icy feeling here at the computer. The soreness is creeping over my shoulders and down my shoulder blades.

Still all I'm doing is Milk Thistle, JK, (Jk has been jumped from 10 drops to 15 twice a day since yesterday).
I'm drinking Braggs ACV, dry skin brushing and lymph massage draining. No lemon water, just picked up more lemons today. It's too cold in here to do a foot soak and can't do a epsom bath.

I just took a rare 1/2 pain pill and don't want to remove it so soon with activ. charcoal, though the pain pill (low dose percocet/acetomenephin hasn't helped.

Is this EBV? Or is a herx reaction causing more inflammation than it's relieving?


2 hours later...I have the fever. And I can't catch my breath walking 15 steps.

Post Edited (julymorning) : 11/30/2016 10:29:48 PM (GMT-7)

multifacetedme said...
julymorning - I don't know... doesn't sound like a herx given what you are taking. My neck used to crack a lot - but was lyme I think.

I agree. Mine has cracked like my shoulders and other joints for quite a while because of good old Lyme eating the soft stuff away.

I suppose I mentioned it because the swelling magnifies the sound into my ears,lol.

I check the EBV symptoms by googling when I got home today and didn't have some of them, so wasn't sure.
I know we're susceptible to it showing up with diminished immunity, plus, my daughter had given me mono sharing a drink quite a while back, and she did tell me a couple of weeks ago she had tested pos for EBV when I told her about the mono/lyme link to it.

Never expected it to pop up on me, but...anyhow, I read the suggestions and there isn't much, being a virus and all.

Just more immune support I imagine.

Doesn't anyone here have or had confirmed EBV that can comment on my symptoms?

July,

I am so sorry you are going through this and feeling so miserable. Sending hugs to you my friend.

I have high EBV and your symptoms were exactly my symptoms two weeks ago. I was doing ok then landed in bed for one week with everything you mention. Even came on here for a pity party.

LLMD had given me homeopathic EBV/thymus gland supplement and I think that did it. You mention that it is very cold where you are, the week I got sick the weather turned cold here. I wonder if there is some correlation with big temp.changes.

I rested, talked to you guys a lot, drank insane amounts of tea and bone broth, did lots of hot ES foot baths, upped the Colloidal Silver and Immune Shield and in a week it seemed to resolve itself.

I hope it's the same for you. Keep us posted.

Krimpet,

I think you are our in house expert on EBV. You helped me when I had it. You shared that you had a similar reaction with the homeopathic EBV.

I didn't know it can cause depression/anxiety. I don't really have those two symptoms. My son does and his EBV is also high. I get the fatigue, sore throat, swollen glands, overall aches like July.

Love your December quote. I look forward to them. Thank you.

Krimpet,

Yes, please share the results and the essential oil. Would love to know that one. I use so many oils.

How long were you on the EBV homeopathics? Or did you stop them and switch over LDI?

Either way, so happy it's working. Happy for you!

Krimpet 🍔 said...
Sounds like it really could be EBV. What I'm finding is that it can present differently from person to person. There are some people that have a lot of anxiety/depression from EBV. Some have sore throat, extreme fatigue (or none at all). Its easy to test for. And given your other vitals, I wouldn't count this one out.

Thank you again.
Other than the worsening of my air supply which I may be able to attribute to the sudden coldness here, outside and in, plus the constant smoke that keeps wafting through my property, the soreness is does not make sense to me.

I cannot pinpoint a physical reason for the locations, other than the base of my neck and back of my neck which I assume are Lymph node locations or close by. The rest of it are not at joints, and seem to be in what's left of my mucles or tendons. Burning achy soreness and increasing tightness.

I did some more digging today and saw something I can try with my resistance bands. I may just be able to push some blood through there and flush the toxins out that way, IDK.

I'll let you know.

July,

I do these gentle workout/releases and they really help: http://goop.com/fascia-the-secret-organ/

Huddie said...
July,

I can relate. Was your fibro also lyme the entire time? Mine was. I found it so bizarre that I was so healthy and fit and then boom odd symptoms, internist, gyn., neurologist, endocrinologist, - all normal and say fibromyalgia. Lyme!

Feel better - do you get flareup with seasonal changes?

Yes, I believe so, Huddie. Back in 85 I had never heard of Lyme Disease.
Oddly, I had heard of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, but believed you had to be in the Rocky Mountains to get it, lol. So I never associated the swarms of nymph ticks all over me all the time could make me sick.

By '92 when I got sick again I knew enough about Lyme because just a year before that an article came out in the newspaper where I had lived, about a young woman's journey with Lyme there. I had been more careful about watching for them, but got bit again putting up a fence in a wooded area. I think that is where I got the RMSF this time. Because of the high fevers my old Dr. pull blood and had it sent off.
But, like I've said, the 2nd Dr. he sent me too said that the 3 bands that said pos. were false, there was no Lyme here, which we argued about. My Dr. had put me on something anyway because of the fevers and something with my blood count, but at most it was 10 days to 2 weeks and that's all.

I finally feel a little better this evening, today was worse than yesterday but some of it has lessened.

I've don't even remember mono being like this, the muscle soreness locations were new and weird to me.

Also, I read last night that EBV that flares out when your immune system is really down, can cause all of your lymph nodes to swell including something (I forgot) in the neck that can impede breathing. That is what I think I was also experiencing when I tried to inhale.

July,

I'm sorry it has taken you so long. That's right I remember you saying you went through lyme before the internet (shock and awe!).

Your current bout does sound like EBV.

The LLMD today did say she didn't think my flare up was from the EBV homeopathics that I flared up from stress lowering my immunity.

Any stress triggers for you lately? Do you want to try the EBV homeopathics? They are from Celltech and called EBV 200C.

Glad you are better tonight.

Well mental stress is just as bad, if not worse. I think that's what brought on my EBV week from hell.

I prescribe a very funny show, an epsom salt bath, and a good nights sleep.


Feel better.

Me too. Have definitely NOT been taking care of myself. Back to it.

Good night everyone.