All my MS symptoms started improving within a few weeks of starting 25mg of tenofovir alafenamide, the standard PrEP dose, but did not completely resolve. Once I started taking 150mg of TAF my symptoms completely disappeared and have remained gone for 3 years.
I would love to know the outcome :)
Lyndie ebv stands for Epstein Bar virus. 9 out 10 people have the virus but it is usually dormant in the body and never goes away and doesn’t cause issues for most people, and about 90 % or possibly more than all people with MS are pos for this antibody.
Epstein-Barr Virus causing Multiple Sclerosis has become irrefutable. Evidence indicating that EBV not only causes, but drives disease progression is growing. If EBV is a driver of MS then elimination of EBV would be a rational therapy for MS. There are licensed drugs with activity against Epstein-Barr Virus, such as the antiviral medication tenofovir alafenamide, which may be particularly effective as an inhibitor of EBV lytic reactivation.
See the following dropbox link for a number of scientific papers indicating that Epstein-Barr Virus is the cause and driver of MS disease activity, and on potential antiviral therapies. This link includes the full-text versions of papers referenced below.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/1qutcgmeqam2ooly...
I am interested in tenofovir alafenamide which seems to be a potent inhibitor of EBV
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2002392117