Hi, my doctor just ran a test for EBV during a routine physical - I didn't even know she was doing it. The reason she decided to was just to rule out the cause of my very occasional throat/inner ear pain (which has since been attributed to allergies).
I'm now freaking out about the results. She says the results mean I've had mono in the past, however I've never had mono that I'm aware of. The part that's making me very nervous is that my results don't seem to correlate with any normal pattern for EBV test results. Only my VCA IgG is high. EBNA is normal. Everything I'm reading says that past infection would result in positive VCA and EBNA results. I did read that a small percentage of people, especially those who are immunosupressed, sometimes don't product or don't maintain their EBNA antibodies. Now that has me panicking that there's something seriously wrong with my immune system (that's what I get for turning to Dr. Google).
Can anyone put my mind at ease here? My results are below, with the normal range shown in parenthesis.
VCA IgG: 137 (<18)
VCA IgM : 22.7 (<36)
EA IgG: 5.8 (<9)
NA IgG: <3 (<18)