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Healing From EBV & SLE

My (ongoing) story

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Mary Mary
Nov 16, 2025
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Boswellia Serrata (also known as Indian Frankincense)

Mid January of this year I fell ill for one week then two. I returned to work but had very little energy and taught ballet from my chair. I was also having some skin issues which I attributed to this or that skincare product. To this day I’m not sure whether my skin problems were related to my gut and immune system or to sensitivity to certain products (a tea tree infused face wipe for example) but I looked like a pink raccoon. In February and March I became suspicious of the fact that I still had chronic fatigue. A couple times, just when I thought I was getting better, I would have a crash out which included all the symptoms of the original flu-like illness from January but these mini crash outs lasted about 3 to 4 days.

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