My New Treatment Approach

Welcome to my new blog. This is my first post.

I've tried several different types of treatments over the 10 years I've had CFS. However, I've decided upon a new approach and will be giving it my all for at least six months. The new approach is an antiviral approach.

There have been several cases of people recovering completely on antiviral treatments, such as Ampligen (still pending to be the first FDA approved treatment for CFS) and Valcyte (valganciclovir, an antiviral used to treat cytomegalovirus in transplant patients). Ampligen is not approved yet, Valcyte's toxicity concerns me, and these drugs are very expensive anyway, so I'm going to try a more natural approach first. I can pay for 6 months worth of supplements for the same cost as one month of Valcyte. Maybe I will end up taking Valcyte anyway, but at least this will have given me a head start.

This approach seems like it would be especially helpful to me, because my CFS developed after having an otherwise typical case of mononucleosis, but never getting completely better from it. My mono diagnosis was confirmed by lab tests revealing an acute Epstein-Barr viral infection. I was retested every few months. After my final test, about 9 months after my condition started, my doctor said I didn't have EBV anymore. But I still felt just as bad. That's when the diagnosis of CFS came to be appropriate.

But now I've learned that lab tests really aren't capable of determining whether a chronic infection of Epstein-Barr exists. A person on the HHV6 Foundation Boards fully recovered after a 6 months treatment of Valcyte, after having a 4 year case of CFS that was also induced by Epstein-Barr. I know of more people like her, but the details of her story of how she became ill are quite similar to mine, which leads me to believe our recovery stories would also be similar.

I'm going to use primarily L-Lysine, Olive Leaf extract, Quercetin, and Luaricidin. I'm also taking other supplements but those aren't directly antiviral. There's new ones I'm discovering all the time, but I will start with these and add others very gradually.

I can start the Lysine right away because I already have some. I should have the rest in soon, so I plan to start on February 1 with the Quercetin and Olive Leaf, and on February 15 I will start the Lauricidin. This is actually the second time I'll be trying Lauricidin but we'll see how it goes.