I have been wrestling this mono stuff for quite some time now too... Not yet really having gotten over it. From my research and experience there is something lacking in the food we eat. Which is protein. The body needs lots of protein to enable the immune system and lots to keep it maintained. I hope this helps. Godspeed.

Anyone know about the test ebvea?...{ebstein barr virus early antigen}
all I have found is that it mean chronic or recurring mono.
Any more info would be much appreciated!
I am so tired of feeling tired!

Yeah, that's the mono test doctors give you. Too see if you have it. Have had any intimate relations with anyone lately?? Kissing, etc.??

Thanks for your reply...

ok...I think I can be serious again.
Nope...No contact of "that" kind in too long...

The only info I found on ebvea is that it detects "chronic" or "recurring" mono...I never even knew I had mono...Ever?

My endocrinologist tested me for ebstein barr and anti-ovarian antibodies to prove to me that synthroid, {thyroid replacement hormone} was, indeed, doing its job! That if I still felt as if a ton of bricks fell on my head...It had to be something else, not my thyroid since synthroid "fixed" it right up!

Ahhh...
I still feel the synthroid is not doing much...
I tested positive to ebvea {ebstein barr virus early antigen}...
I have really high igg levels to ebstein barr...
the anti-ovarin test came back postitive, too!

So, my "positive" test results proved to the doc she was correct...
{i still don't think she is entirely correct}


i have been going around and around with all of this for 3 years...
****do you hear me screaming??****

anyone know anything about the above problems?

I am just at a loss...A complete loss!

When I check into mono and anti-ovarian antibody tests...I seem to fall into a sea of medical words which just confuses me more...
My hypothyroid status is easier to understand...Certainly not easier to cope with, however!!

Thanks in advance for any information...
Jeanne

**one other thing***
anyone know why when I submit my reply, many of the capital letters I use are left out??...I am puzzled once again :)

I have gotten mono countless times now. My doctor has been very unhelfull. the first time i got it i had it so bad they gave me steroids to make the swelling go down.

oops sorry did not mean to enter that yet

I found that eating lots of protien like 3 times a day
and eating healthy helps
there are also some herbs i was given to try thats how i got rid of it in the first place.
but every time i stop eating right i get it again.
good luck if u find any way to really get it out of the system please let me know
as i am up to about round 6 in 4 yrs

I got mono as an adult 3 years ago and I'm on my 4th battle. It started again 4 days ago and I can't get that feeling to go away. Does anyone have suggestions to help me get through it again? I know someone mentioned protein..... I don't eat red meat very much, but I eat lots of chicken. Is it possible my body needs red meat?

I'm supposedly on my 2nd bout of mono since March/April. Now September. The problem may be the way your doctor is testing it as well. After the first time you have mono you will always have mono antibodies in your system so they have to do an EBNA Eppstein Barr Nuclear Antigen to differentiate between active infection and past infection. Please look up the Mononucleosis and Titers. You will forever show mono antibodies after the first time but the only way to show if you have active infection later on is to do a more specific test. I know doctors do not always follow through with the appropriate tests because I now pick up copies of all of my labs due to oversights in the past. I suggest you get your lab results and study how they check for recurring mono. You should also know that there are other things that will give a positive Mono IgG test and that is Leukemia, Lymphoma, Systemic Lupus, Rheumatoid arthritis, HIV, and another I can't recall. It is worth looking into if you have had it seven times. Everything I have read states that if you have had it that many times doctors need to be looking into other causes or why it is recurring that often. I don't know what your symptoms are but if they are largely stomach (GERD) symtpoms I would be tested for H-Pylori as well.

I'm on my SEVENTH dose of mono

Okay, so pretty sure the 2nd round was confirmed as Mono. All counts went up in CBC as well, white count, neutrophils. Oddly enough neutrophils were over 8,000 while lymphocytes were low. But I figure okay I guess that would be due to the Mono did flare up in August. So recently I just found out due to this Mono -- which brought on all new case of GERD and pretty much killed my appetite -- that I have Iron Deficiency Anemia as well as Vitamin D deficiency. Now I'm wondering which came first the chicken or the egg. I would suggest everyone who has recurring mono get their vitamin levels checked as well as their ferritin levels. Both deficiencies can lower your immune system which may allow for mono to creep in or it's possible the mono caused the deficiencies. It is not enough to have the doctor check your hematocrit or hemoglobin for anemia. Mine were always on the low end of normal. These can remain normal in iron deficiency anemia which means your total body stores of iron have been depleted. So your stores have released their iron into your blood but you have no backup storage. This means when you need immediate oxygen in your blood to help your body function, you will be hard pressed to find it if you have no backup and your hematocrit and hemoglobin will often not begin to drop below normal until those stores are used up. By that time, you will already be experiencing some pretty obvious symptoms. Some people don't, but let me tell you I did.