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Hello, I was recently diagnosed with ebv. My ebv igm test was negative but my ebv igg test was positive (not sure what that means). Before being diagnosed, I was sick for a month with a very bad sore throat, swollen lymph nodes in the neck and armpits, fatigue, white tongue, swollen salivary glands (which started a few weeks before all these symptoms came) etc. They tested me for all stis, negative. Hiv test, negative 27 days after exposure. However, you should know that I tested positive for genital herpes about 8 months ago. However, I have started to feel kind of ill again with fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, still ah e swollen salivary glands, and I have developed a kind of rash. I?m not sure if with ebv these symptoms continue even after most symptoms have subsided.
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Igg appears soon after infection and stays in the blood for life. Igm is actually the first antibody that appears after infection, but it may disappear thereafter. For example, it can be illustrated that positive igm and igg tests for dengue antibodies detected in an initial blood sample mean that it is likely that the person became infected with dengue virus within recent weeks. If the igg is positive but the igm is low or negative, then it is likely that the person had an infection sometime in the past.
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