Is EBV going to kill me ??

[LivingDead101]

14 months of being extremely ill, Dr finally tested me for everything including HIV, it came back positive only for EBV, l have low white cell count, high B12, slightly high pottasium level. I'm not getting better I'm still as sick and the fatuige is horrible ! I'm only exsisting, this is not living! I was so active before this took me out. Please help me understand, is there anything I can do to help myself. Please Help. Am I going to physically Die from this ? Because I am so sick, I feel like it. My life as I knew it has already died.  Its hard to believe there's nothing I can do, as my Drs tell me, except live with it. No I can't just live with this ! It's a nightmare ! If there is help out there please tell me. Someone please talk to me about this. I'm am so isolated, and afraid, I have  no family, no friends since I became ill. I've lost everything, living on SSI now, get meals on wheels, that's it, and aid at sheltering arms picks up my medications for my other Heath issues I've had for years, that I've never had any long term problems with at all. I now ride the medicade bus to get to appointments, thats rough ! It just wares me out. Bassicly I just sit here in this house, alone and sick, not knowing what to do or think  ? Please Help.

[mkh9]

I think the eye twitching is stress or tiredness, nothing serious. Do you have it all the time and for how long?
mkh9

[LivingDead101]

They have tested me for everything except MS so far, I don't drink, and all blood work keeps coming back ok except high B12 and high Potassium levels, and the EBV,, going to Nuerologist next to be tested for MS n whatever else I can think of to tell him ! I don't think my PCP, or Immunologist is going to do anymore blood work ups on me. I don't know what to think except I feel really bad and have for so long, I can't do anything that doesn't take extreme effort and 5 hour energy drinks or I can't even get outta bed somedays or if I do about all I can get done is sweep the floor, and maybe a few other things without the 5 hour energy. I dont drink one everyday, maybe once a week just to clean house. I have trouble concentrating allot, I get dizzy off n on, my eyes and face always feel swollen, I have allot of allergies, so I have to becareful of everything I eat or come in contact with, I feel like I'm short of breath or it's hard to get a deep breath like ?? Kinda like congestion but not. I'm on an antibiotic for a staff infection right now, been STD tested, including Hep a b and c liver function is fine, it's just crazy that this won't let up and I can't seem to find out anything except I have EBV. I don't know what to do ? All I know is I really feel bad all the time, and have weird sleeping spells, it's not a restful sleep, I just can not stay awake at times, it's more like passing out only I go lay down first. You would think if they saw anything else abnormal in my blood work they would be more concerned, or maybe not, I'm on Medicade I just know I have had all kinds of blood work done and nothing had ever been out of whack until this EBV, pottasium levels high, and B12 to high ??? Please list everything you think I should ask this Neurologist about or to test me for. Thank You So Much !! To mkh9 and tonoend !!! Thank You !! Truly PR

[LivingDead101]

Also I sweat allot, it's not hot flashes, I just sweat like crazy, then might get chilled now and then, they put me on nasonex for allergies, I can't take allergy shots. I'm on 50 mg of Atenonol once a day for high BP, and  meds for Hypotyroidism, Cholesterol, On Lasix because I tend to hold water, asthma spray, Xanax for nerves, singular, atarax at night 50 mg it's a antihitimine, with a slight muscal relaxer in it, I have muscal aches in my back from buldging discs, and the antihitimine helps with the alergies to dustmites, and anything else floating around in the air. I had Glandular Fever when I was 2 years old, it's caused by EBV, that's what my Dr said. It trashed my immune system and almost killed me, I took allergy shots, until I was 12 and had to stop, and gamagobulin shots for my immune system until I was 13, was pretty much ok until July of 2011.. ? Was working out 5 days a week at the gym, was in great shape ! Felt great, looked great, had every to burn, and some left over, rode my motorcycle everyday, went out, was doing ok, just had an occasional down time thing that I thought was just me over doing it, I would just be very tired for a few days then back up n going again ??? This is to weird for words.. I just don't even know who I am now, and sure don't recognize the face I see in the mirror now

[Renu512]

Are you still feeling sock or any better?

[mkh9]

I do relate to some of your symptoms because I have chronic back pain and I run out of energy all the time. I also am hypersenstive to a lot of things. I am getting patch tested to see which things because I recently had a major allergy to topical steroid and my legs swelled up like elephant legs and then peeled, itched like crazy. I am allergic to dust too but it is the mold and not the mites in my case.   Would you give me specifics on exactly what your WBC count was and the break down of the cells etc. and the EBV, did they do IgM and IgG or test you for Early antigen or something like that? If so give me all you have. How long ago were you ill from EBV or did they think you may have acquired mono? Did they do a mono spot test and was it negative or positive? Certainly the muscle relaxants can cause major fatigue. I sleep walked during the first three weeks of flexeril. I was on the lowest dose too. B12 should be eiminated in the urine. It doesn't usually build up that is why I mentioned specific things it could be. Why are you seeing a neurologist? Hypothyroidism also makes you very tired. My husband is layed out on the couch when his thyroid is off. I have a high TSH recently and I've been more tired. I 'm getting retested as it has never been low before. Be sure to mention the high B12 to the doc. Also, have you ever had and EKG? Also, have you had your iron, and ferritin tested. I was wondering if you  have an arrthymia that would make you tired and feel funny (I know because i have a benign one and if I drink coffee or tea or have certain supplements I feel short of breath. They found mine by accident. Flexeril may have been the cause or it made it worse. I had  a normal EKG and it showed up on a 24 hour monitor. Also, your symptoms sound like anemia.
mkh9

[tonoend]

They look blood shot if I sleep late. Otherwise, it looks normal but still mildly red. Random parts of my body twitches, not my eye. It started before the fever (i think was mono) struck me earlier this year. Is it possible that these viruses affects the nerve system significantly? There are times this twitches are  tremor-like. But they come and go.

[mkh9]

I did see that there is an association of neuropathy with EBV. Also, do you have muscle fatigue or paralysis? They can check you for Guilian Barr disease which is caused by EBV in a few people.
mkh9