Yup, I had it really badly in my late teens. It presented much like glandular fever and came up in a blood test. I had ongoing chronic fatigue for almost two years afterwards.

It sucked. I couldn't work and no medication helped. Tried anti-depressants to help me sleep properly, couldn't handle the side effects so just stuck to herbal remedies. Really knocked my immune system around because I caught everything going around. Hard to tell whether the constant run of viruses or fatigue were worse than the initial CMV!

Apparently, lots of ppl are carriers and would never know. I eventually got stronger and my immune system recovered. The virus I believe is there for good, but not an issue for me now. I think it impacts on my ability to donate organs if I die, they could only go to someone else who has it.

Hope that helps.
this is basically what happened to me - but it was in my early 20's - and i STILL have CFS flares from it (well, having had GF and CMV within a couple of years, it could be from either one!). my immune system is shot so it doesn't take much for any other virus to drag me down and the CFS to flare up - and i was told it was mostly to do with having those two viruses when i was younger

and yes, I've heard organ donation is impacted by it - but more that CMV is almost welcome because so many people are CMV positive (and many don't know). being cmv negative is apparently unusual


i have heard of CMV having some impact on the liver and resultant functions - there can be cysts on the liver as a result of the virus...


never heard of congenital CMV sorry hun