what are the symptoms of mono (other than being real ass tired)?

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cuz i am like real ass tired. all the time. for a long time now.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Fevers, achyness, swollen glands esp in the neck. A fluey feeling, mostly. Also yr liver might ache somewhat.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I had mono in my 20s... whee, it was fun.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

a.k.a. glandular fever for the benefits of non-americans

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

get a checkup man
you might have chronic fatigue
or you might be ME

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

great i have ALL of these.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i am going to be pissed if "cat health questions" garners more answers than this

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

pc run amok!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

it's been a while since i had a good ol fashioned freak out thread

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Had it checked out jess? They can do a blood test for it, though its not mega-accurate, I think it just tells you if you've ever had it, not neccesarily if you have it now, but yeah it could be. No real cure for the bastard thing - bedrest, and above all NO BOOZE.

I did neither of these of course so I ended up suffering from fatiguey things for about 3 years.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Some people I know suggested speed. Maybe not a great idea.

Also lots of B vitamins seem to help.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it can potentially weaken your immune system permanently

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

When I had it it felt like someone had taken a baseball bat to my back. I was spitting up HUGE quantities of phlegm. My throat was so swollen that I couldn't eat anything and had trouble even swallowing water. I lost 20 lbs in 3 weeks. The flu symptoms were the easiest part. I remember going to school the first couple of days and falling asleep at my desk. Fun stuff. Best part of it was that there was no treatment for it (then?) other than Tylenol. It's an odd sickness in that it seems to affect people differently. I was in good shape at the time and I got really sick, yet I've known chubby slackers who've had it who were only sick for a couple of days.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I had it when I was 18 and I haven't really felt the same since.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

go to the doctor

I just found out I have Lyme Disease -- similar symptoms. Do you live somewhere where there are ticks? Do you walk in the woods? Do you have a rash anywhere?

When I had mono as a teenager, I got a really sore throat. How's your throat?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i've just woken up for the last five days or so feeling like someone had worked me over with a pipe and then buried me in peat moss. i'm snotty and coughy. and then for the rest of the day i'm just draaaaggggggiiiinnnnnn.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it's sorta like a cold where you just have to stay in bed and ride it out. It's a good idea to go get bloodwork done to verify that that's what you have.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Bryans right tho, you really are never quite the same after mono. I was a really energetic teen, did dancing and gymnasitcs... now I just never have any energy.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

it could just be the poisonous venom that you are filled with leaking out of your ears. You should be okay when you hit 30.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha! syke! it's probably just a flu-bug, dood!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

no, no this poisonous venom thing sounds plausible

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Mono is vicious. It's not a question of feeling tired all the time, it's a feeling of being UTTERLY UNABLE TO MOVE. My parents didn't believe that I had mono when I had it, they thought I was "depressed" so I was committed. Life's a bitch. Sore throat, swollen glands, it feels like flu that won't go away. If you can stay awake for more than six hours at a time, it's probably not mono.

Do you really have Lyme Disease, Maria? That truly sucks. My condolences! No wonder you are good at coming up with diversions for bedrest.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Saturday, 28 August 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I fell asleep standing up at my job when I had it :(

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 28 August 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I had it when I was @ school, and missed a large part of 1 yr because of it, since which time, I still get hit really hard by infections, and get tired really easily. My condolences, it's a shit disease.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 28 August 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I had it too, and recovered fairly quickly, but it did take the wind out of my sails when it came to physical endurance. I'm definitely a lot better off now than I was for the couple of years after I first had it but it's certainly a good excuse for not exerting yourself strenuously if you hate that stuff already. (ie. "let's play street hockey!"..."No, fuck off!" now becomes the much more pleasant "Can't, have this disease, go have fun you wacky kids.")

Just think, Jess, if you do have mono, it'll give you more reason to play the grumpy old man. As Bryan can attest, that's golden.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 28 August 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I had some kickass hallucinations going in and out of sleep.. Also, my throat was so sore, all I could eat for a few days was FLA-VOR-ICE.

― dave225 (Dave225), Saturday, 28 August 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you really have Lyme Disease, Maria?

My blood test results come back any day but my doctor and I are fairly certain that's what it is, cuz I had an infected tick bite, have all the classic symptoms and I live someplace infested with it. I'm taking medicine I hope will make me feel better soon. I've heard incredibly high estimates for the percentage of residents here (Martha's Vineyard) who fall ill with Lymes, up to 50%. I have several friends who have had it at one time or other. It usually clears up with antibacterial medicine. Sometimes it leaves people with recurring arthritic symptoms. I'm not on bedrest, just dragging my ass and achey all over, with swollen lymph glands.

The sickest I've ever been (besides after having a C-section) was when I had mono. I blame it for ruining a year of high school. I was doing fairly well on the cross-country track team, but mono put an end to that and I had to drop out. That's not as bad as getting committed for depression, though!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 28 August 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

when you get mono do you have it "forever"?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 August 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think so.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 28 August 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Well KISS ON, then.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 August 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I had it the summer before my first year of college. My throat was covered with white bumps and I was good for nothing. The sneaky thing with mono is that after a week or so, you think you're feeling not so bad. So you go out to, say, the bookstore. And then you realize, "Okay, if I don't sit down NOW, I'm going to fall on my ass." Stay. In. Bed.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 28 August 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

so what happens to me is: after a week of feeling like shit (fever, sweats, cough, severely constricted throat and nasal passages, couldn't swallow), i feel much better, nearly a-ok, EXCEPT when i try to exert myself at all... even after lifting say two boxes my throat constricts again, i am out of breath and feel faint. based on jeanne's description, this sounds normal. i feel guilty about it but i'm going to have to stay away from work for at least a week, aren't i?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

p.s. how do you know when it's GONE??? mono i mean.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

your case sounds just like mine. slowly get back into a routine, try to do more each day? and yeah unless it's like the easiest desk work ever, at least take a couple of days.

― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

unfortunately my work involves a lot of manual stuff... so i will have to avoid it.

what's worst is that i have to move an entire apartment across the midwest in a few weeks, so i HAVE to get better. so i'd best just stay in bed for a long time.

it's hard to be sick when you live alone.... you still have to go out and get groceries and stuff. no parent or girlfriend or whatever to pamper you.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

Online grocery shopping! They deliver!

My case lasted three months in eighth grade. Three months of NOT having to swim/gym second hour every day when I was 14 had its bonuses ("Miss Sickles, I wouldn't want to go in the water because I'm not sure I have the all-clear..."). Knowing that if I woke up the next morning and THE GLANDS, SWOLLEN were around that I'd overdone it, and sleeping a lot outside school hours were how I coped.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

On the plus side, my intern was diagnosed with mono shortly after she started working with us and while she definitely did some serious recuperatin', two months later she seems fine and has no complaints.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

Amateur(ist), did you have it diagnosed? Cause it might as well be iron deficiency (or something else). I know that when my iron levels were extremely low, I would feel very weak. I remember my doctor telling me on the phone:"Do you realize you're nearly ANEMIC! You are nearly A N E M I C!" Yeah yeah, sure, that's okay, I'll take a few iron pills, whatever dude, it's actually kinda fun cause you appear to walk slanted at times and your head spins! (I also have low blood pressure.)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

all i know about mono is wayne, from 'wayne's world', saying "i thought i had mono, but it turned out i was just really bored."

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i had a blood test, so i def. have mono (unless those blood tests are less accurate than my doctor led me to believe).

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh crap. :-( You won't recover in a week's time. As others mentioned: it'll take a couple of weeks.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

the acid test is whether you can hear out of both ears.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

When I had it I was in so much pain I couldn't walk to the pantry for Panadol. I had to crawl. At this point I knew something was amiss.

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

I got mono a week after having oral sex (with condom, IIRC), and for a whole week I thought, OK, this is just a really bad case of the flu. When it got to the point where my throat had closed up so much I couldn't swallow my own saliva, and had to keep a bowl of phlegmy spit by my bedside at all times, then I thought, hmm, maybe I should get this checked out. (Additionally, the internal swelling fucked with the nerves of my teeth so every night, I felt like I had a mammoth jaw-wide tooth-ache.)

The doctor prescribed steroids (the six a day, then five a day, then four a day, etc. kind) which improved most of the symptoms immediately but gave me several nights' worth of nutty half-awake, half-dreaming sleep-walking. After a week more, I thought I was well enough to back to work, a mighty big delusion. It took a month to recover, and it was a full recovery far as I can remember.

The boyfriend who infected me (and it *was* him, I hadn't any sexual contact for ages before him) was offended that I didn't call him for over two weeks, even though I explained to him that most of the time I was coherent as a luded-out Brenda Vaccaro imitating Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

This was when I started regularly watching MST3K for the first time; the thing was I didn't actually get Comedy Central and could only watch it scrambled. I was so bored I didn't mind.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Adam. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

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