Quick rundown on EBV/fatigue, please?

[dazedmom]

Can somebody please give me a quick rundown on EBV and how long it's reasonable to expect the fatigue to last?  My teenage daughter currently has elevated EBV numbers, and I suspect that the "flu" she had last January was mono.  But it's now September, and she's still trying to sleep 14 hours a day, and is always exhausted.  Is this normal?

The other possibility is that she didn't really get mono until this summer, when I know a close friend of hers got it.  But if so, she never showed any obvious signs of it (other than this durn fatigue!)

[PlateletGal]

I see it this way : if I don't address the pathogens that are making me so ill, then they will continue to be there and multiply. If I wait to do this treatment, then it may be too late.

This is why it is important to work with a physician when you are on this treatment. If you talk to Dr. Jernigan and have a phone consultation with him, he may be able to recommend what kind of physician would be best to see.

[ott70]

I agree with PlateletGal, start slow with the drops. I went gung-ho and was using 30 drops 3 x a day. That's when my herxing seemed real bad. Did I think I was going to die? Kind of, just because I was having cardiac symptoms. Was it any worse then when I was feeling like crud without it? Not really.

I'm now at 20 drops 3 x a day. That seems to work fine and the herxing is not as severe. Whatever the doctors Jernigan have formulated into their bottles, I would say it works. Get a bottle and then just take it easy with the amount of drops. The herxing symptoms are probably not going to feel any worse than your real crummy days you have had with your illness.

Who knows, maybe after using Jernigans for a few months your WBC could improve. It's natural, so you won't be pumping toxins into your body.

[PlateletGal]

"I'm very scared of the herxing symptoms. I'm scared that I will die from it. Does anyone know if that could happen?"

It is possible of course but I think that is for very ill people who have been sick a very long time and / or people who use too many antibiotics or in Jernigan's case... drops.

I learned that I needed to start out SLOW with the drops (I started out with 3 drops 3 X daily at first... just in case) and then keep raising the amount... as long as your symptoms are tolerable. Your symptoms will probably be the same symptoms you already have.. just a little worse.

[carisa]

Otto70-Wow, you sound ALOT like myself! I do have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, which causes me to be hypothyroid, and I also have chronic EBV. My EBV titers have been as high as 2400-3200. They are almost always pretty high. My sypmtoms include night sweats, extreme fatigue, heavy arms and legs, stomach problems, dizziness, brain fog, caridiac symptoms, etc. I usually don't have them all at the same time, thank God, but I do have them all at different times. Right now I am going through a period where I am feeling a little better. It has been a few months, but I know it will come back again. It always does. I have also had all kinds of testing-MRI, several x-rays, colonoscopy, upper endoscopy, bone marrow biopsy, several CBCs, etc. My WBC is almost always low. It usually ranges inbetween 3.0-4.5. It has been 2.7, but that was only once.

PLATELETGAL & Otto70- I'm very scared of the herxing symptoms. I'm scared that I will die from it. Does anyone know if that could happen? I'm wanting to try this formula, I just need to prepare myself for these symptoms to come back even stronger than before. Any ideas?

[PlateletGal]

"She made me stop watching."

; ^ )

[ott70]

"Microbojen isn't going to cure me"

That could have been a little too bold of a statement or maybe declared incorrectly. If I remember from Dr. Jernigan's website, they don't claim to offer a cure. Of course, they have to do this or someone is probably going to try and sue them. I think what I meant is the Microbojen will get my body healing the right way and then my body will take care of the rest at some point -- or at least it's supposed to.

Maybe the Microbojen formula does cure. It definitely does something and I can sincerely hope that it does provide some type of cure.

Sidenote, the wife just had on an episode of House and the doctor and his students started talking about viruses, how there are a thousand of them and it's very difficult to test for them and no cure can be offered. She made me stop watching.