Anxiety over EBV (Epstein Barr Virus) positive blood result.

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I don't even know where to begin... I'll try to keep this as short as possible. I'm 32 male. Have suffered from anxiety since 2007. In June of 2014 I was doing a lot of trail running in the wooded area. I ran about 3-4 miles per day. One evening I noticed I had erection pain. It was odd. After a week of it I went to the Dr. and he said to not worry about it and it should get better. That night I started getting bladder pain, severe. It felt like a horrible horrible UTI, yet I've never had one. I went back to the Dr. and UTI was negative. He gave me antibiotics for 2 weeks to see if it was a bladder infection. Nope. I was in constant pain for 2 solid weeks. Crying at night b/c I couldnt sleep.

I finally went back to the Dr. b/c now my lower back was hurting and stiff. He told me I probably had a pinched nerve and to get massage and stretch. I got deep tissue massage from my brother who is a therapist, and he said I probably have mayofascial trigger points in my glutes. Sure enough I got relief.

Since then I've been suffering on and off from chronic low back pain, on and off neck pain, other muscle spasms, fatigue, vertigo one time last summer for 20 minutes with tight neck pain. The past few weeks I started feeling bad pain in my shoulder blades, random quick burning pain in muscles in my body. And now I feel it sometimes in my joints.

My Sports Dr. and my brother think I have mayofascial pain syndrome caused by tight knots in the fascia that cover muscles. I researched this and sure enough, a guys story on the Washington Post starts off with Bladder Pain.

However, lately I've been feeling achy too with all unexplained pain. My Dr. just wants me on an antidepressant.

I finally got a 2nd opinion from a nurse practitioner yesterday. She went ahead and drew blood for possible Lymes disease and also she drew blood fro EBV.

She called me today after and said I was negative for Lymes but POSITIVE for (EBV) epstein barr virus!!!

I had NO idea what that was. She told me that it's showing I got it a while ago according to the test, so I am NOT contagious. However my levels were pretty elevated as of right now.

I'm going in on Monday to get my lab results on paper.

Now I'm wondering if all my symptoms are from EBV??? Could they start like this and keep going? All muscle issues? Or is this common?

My friend wrote me and told me that she HIGHLY suggests that I get RE-TESTED for Lymes disease through Igenex, as my test results were from Quest.

I hear different things on the internet, saying if it was negative on Quest, then I should not have to pay $500 for another Igenex test, and that Quest is reliable. But I've also read the opposite that Igenex is the best... I've also heard Igenex is under a lot of fire b/c most people turn up positive with Igenex. lol. I'm in a dillema here. haha.

Now my anxiety is back up again b/c I'm worried about what the heck is wrong with me???

Mayofascial pain syndrome sounds more legit... but the EBV thing has thrown me WAY OFF.

Thanks for any feedback. I have not had any other symptoms besides those above. No fevers, sore throats etc. except when I got strep throat December of 2014. But strep isnt EBV.

Thanks guys.

I'd like to add that my primary Dr. did a full lab on me 2 weeks ago and everything came back fine. He said I'm healthier than a horse. He also did a thyroid test, negative, and a SED rate test to check for inflammation. No inflammation.

I'm getting pretty anxious of all this now... gotta keep my anxiety under control!!!

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Lol. Youre good my man. I've decided to just let this all go. My Dr. talked to my sister yesterday.  Shes a nurse so they tend to run into eachother quite often at the hospital.

He asked her I was doing,  and told her I was perfectly fine.

I keep thinking,  can anxiety really do all this?

Looking back to what anxiety has done to my body in the past... nothing surprises me anymore.

I feel the anxiety is making spend crap tons of $$ on unnecessary tests... and its just laughing at me.

Evil anxiety. Lol.

Here in a few weeks if I don't get any better, not that I've gotten worse... ill probably go on a low dose of Remeron for a few weeks and see if its all indeed anxiety.

My wife thinks my obsession with fibromyalgia is ridiculous.

She thinks if I truly had it, I wouldn't be able to go to the gym and work out like I do.

She thinks anxiety can manifest as muscle tension and also cause random spasms all over.

She also said that reason I'm not sleeping and have no appetite well is bc of anxiety and depression.

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Hey, C, nobody called me out for idiocy here -- it's Guillain-barre, not Epstein Barr, that's associated with Zika.  Duh.  Never mind.

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Zika is passed by mosquitoes, and sex, and who knows what, but it's generally a very moderate flu-like virus.  But in some people it appears to cause EBV.  But that wouldn't include you unless you've been down to where it's common now, and I don't think you have, so I didn't mean to suggest that.  I only meant you've tested positive for it and negative for Lyme, so I'd not rule out the positive test.  I also wouldn't rule it in, necessarily.  Also know that Lyme is pretty awful when it becomes chronic, but it doesn't in the vast majority of people who get it -- though as with many maladies, such as systemic yeast infections, also rare, there's a cottage industry of people who think we all have it and it's destroying humankind.  Having worked years in the health food field, I know these rare occurrences are both underestimated by doctors and overestimated by natural healers.  Hard to find reality in that environment.  Meaning, don't get scared, get even!

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I don't know, C, I've had a lot of test results on Quest and a lot from other labs.  I don't know anything about Quest having any problems other labs don't have, but I do know test results can vary.  But I guess I'd focus on the positive test for EBV by seeing a virologist and see what they mean.  Obviously you need to get this done again.  I think symptoms can vary widely from this virus, and it's often caused, or seems to be caused, as a secondary infection from something else, such as Zika.  I think it's also more common in certain ethnic groups, but I may be wrong about that.  Before flipping out, I'd follow up on it and see what the treatment is.  I can tell you this, your case isn't that dire -- this virus can kill and paralyze, and you're still very much alive and not paralyzed, so I don't see any reason you won't find a way to deal with it.  Good luck.  

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The Zikia virus is from mosquitos. From what I've read, it resolves on it's own. You then develop antibodies and you can't get it again. I'm going to do the Igenex Lymes Disease Test and rule tha tout. Once that is ruled out... Then I may just accept my diagnosis as MPS. I may see a rheumatologist though too before that. That should be my last step I guess. I read also that most adults have EBV in their blood b/c we've contracted it at some points in our lives without getting mono-type symptoms. Most of us just get symptoms of a common cold, then we build antibodies and it kills it. However, it will still show up in our bloodstreams the rest of our lives. Interesting stuff.