Chronic EBV and a few others

I came back positive for EBV and HHV6, honestly I think it is just because my body was run down from the lyme. I have been treating the lyme and feel much, much better.

Hi BritniMBC92 -

LDN doesn't "treat" Lyme - it's not an antimicrobial. LDN is "low-dose Naltrexone". In high doses, Naltrexone is given to opiate addicts to help with the severe neuropathy from withdrawal. In low doses, it helps regulate or calm the nervous symptoms and can help with these Lyme sx. It's also a good immune booster.

Nearly ALL adults have the EBV virus in their bodies but most people are asymptomatic.

I had very high EBV and HHV6 titers when I first started Lym & Co tx. I am glad I waited to get my titers down before starting Lyme 7 Co tx - the EBV and other viruses are huge burdens on your immune system and your body and can interfere with tx.

Antivirals don't kill viruses, unfortunately, they only suppress them, kind of force them to go latent or inactive.

I also started with Acyclovir I didn't have my titers retested but I had no change in my sx so we switched to Valcyclovir, which helped. 3g is a good daily dose but in the beginning I was probably taking 6g but by accident. I eventually switched back to Acyclovir and it's still managing sx pretty well. I am now at 3g daily. Try switching to a different antiviral, and/or try adding in some natural antivirals, or try increasing dose for a week or so.

Also - with any of these antiviral Rx please be sure to have your liver enzymes checked monthly while you're on them and if the liver titers increase, try adding in milk thistle seed and/or burdock root and/or try doing a liver cleanse.

Natural antivirals:

Lysine
Olive leaf
Oil of oregano
Licorice
Houttuynia
Ginger
Chinese Skullcap
Astragalus
Provocation Neutralization
Samento

A few other notes:

Per Raj Patel and Susan McCamish, well-known Lyme specialists during a BioResource 2014
Conference session: "Treating Tick-Borne Diseases Using Integrative
Therapies":

"Viral support may include low dose Valcyte, Valtrex, Famvir, IMN-V, IMN-V-II, IRM, and Viralox."
"Reducing viral load opens up methylation. "

-p