Anybody ever have mono?

[Max Powers]

I got my blood tests back today, and it turns out that my suspicion was true that I have mono. From what my mom (she works as a nurse) and the doctor have told me, it should last about a month. I can still go to school, since my fever is mostly down (it still gets up to 100 or so from time to time, beats the 103-104 it was all last week), but I have to take time off work, since I do a lot of lifting there, and heavy lifting can sometimes burst the spleen when somebody has mono. This means I have to stop going to the gym too.

Before I got tested for mono, we mistook it for the flu, and strep throat, because of the fever and sore throat symptoms. The fever is almost gone as I said, but the sore throat is still a pain in the ass, and I have to stay away from a lot of foods that bother my throat.

Anyway, mono sucks, and I was wondering if anybody else has ever had it, and if they have any advice.

 

[Danoff]

Yup, I have had it and it does suck. I don't have much advice for you though. You just kinda have to tough it out.

 

[Roo]

Mono? What's that involve? Never heard of it before.

 

[Max Powers]

A google search could have given you this.

All about mono: http://familydoctor.org/077.xml

 

[Roo]

Silly of me - I didn't bother Googling "Mono" because I assumed it'd be such a common word that I'd never find what I was looking for.

Still, doesn't sound very pleasent. Hope it clears up soon!

Have you had it long?

 

[_F_]

My wife was just diagnosed with mono on Monday. We thought she had the flu or strep, blood test showed mono. She is supposed to stay off work for a month and rest a lot. She has had 0 energy for the past week. I think she is on some sort of prescription steroid?

I have a friend who damn near failed out of college when he had mono. Fool had no energy and slept all day for days on end, then drank like a fish on the weekend.

The positive side of the spousal unit having mono is more uninterrupted gt4 time for me.

Good luck with your recovery.

 

[Max Powers]

Have you had it long?

It started showing up about a week and a half ago, although we didn't know it was mono until today.

 

[Omnis]

Eww, epstein-barr.

Hope you get well. Tell your doc that you're allergic to everything except for vicodin.

 

[Master_Yoda]

Tell your doc that you're allergic to everything except for vicodin.

Yeah! except don't get addicted to it, my mom was for awile and it was hard to give up.

Hope you get better, my sister had it for awile i can see how much it sucks.