> recently found out that the testing the doctors did seven years ago with
> my TM onset showed levels of Epstein-Barr virus that indicated
> convalescence from an infection at some previous time (I think it was five
> years earlier when I missed five weeks of work). I was told the TM came on
> as an aftermath of the flu that I had the month before, but that diagnosis
> was made before the tests on EBV came back--after I had already changed to
> the rehabilitation hospital--and I was never told about the EBV. It does
> make me wonder if EBV played a part in anything. The tests also showed a
> low-positive for cytomegalovirus. It certainly did make me curious,
> especially to hear other people also had/have EBV.
>
My testing at onset also showed some past encounter with EBV, but the neuro
didn't seem much interested. I have wondered about it, though.
Barbara H.