Anyone here ever have Mononucleosis????

[LynneSin]

Mononucleosis, otherwise known as the 'Kissing Disease'.

I got Mono at the end of my junior year in high school. I'm still not sure how I caught it although I was notorious for kissing plenty of men at my young age :eyes: but ironically my boyfriend never got it :shrug:

Anyone else here ever get mono?

[ALago1]

1. During a regular bloodwork analysis...

I tested positive for the mononucleosis virus. Funny thing was, I never experienced any symptoms of lethargy and the like. My doctor said that over 90% of Americans have contracted it but some just don't get full blown mono.

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. Mrs McLargehuge contracted it in college

before I met her, but I understand it was awful

[LynneSin]

3. I did alot of sleeping

and I missed all my final exams. I ended up taking them in July and I can assure you that this normally straight "A" student got B & C's when she took them in the middle of summer. They wouldn't let me go on to my senior year unless I took them, but I really didn't want to go to summer school and I was sick most of June. So I just finally went in July and figured as long as I passed them I didn't care about the grades.

[progressivejazz]

4. Yeah, I had it. Years ago.

One of my friends said I most likely got it from kissing a toilet seat. One of my favorite lines of all time.

[hippiechick]

5. I get it every year or so ....

....think it's more of an exhaustion/immuno-deficiency thing than related to uh ... extra curricular activities....



:hippie:

[donsu]

6. had it in my 20s - in bed for 6 wks. - thought I would die

felt so bad, wished I would die

ran a fever 24/7 for wks.

my dear dog stayed by my bed the whole time.

[aquart]

7. At 19. 2 and 1/2 weeks of high fever.

Then....I'd catch anything going. Became allergic to penicillin. Lethargy I called the whites followed by frenetic energy I called the reds.

The after effects lingered for years.

[Waistdeep]

8. My son got it

a few weeks before college applications were due. He had procrastinated, of course, and had most of the work left to do. He had a pretty bad case and could barely swallow.

I had to keep waking him up to finish his essays. A very unpleasant time for us both.

[Exultant Democracy]

9. Yep, frosh year of college

I woke up one morning and when I looked in the mirror my eyes were yellow, my doctor told me that I had probably had mono for a while and that it combined with my drinking had almost shut down my liver. It was not a pleasant semester after that.

[Exultant Democracy]

10. Yep, frosh year of college

I woke up one morning and when I looked in the mirror my eyes were yellow, my doctor told me that I had probably had mono for a while and that it combined with my drinking had almost shut down my liver. It was not a pleasant semester after that.

[bif]

11. I got it in college

From sharing a beer with a friend who had it. And I thought you could only get it from kissing. Didn't find out till years later who gave it to me.

[Tikki]

12. In 9th grade....

...when I was 14. Six weeks recuperation sounds correct.
What I remember most: I was so weak...I could barely move...My brother would 'turn me over' about every three or four hours during the first couple of weeks... so that I wouldn't get bed sores.


Mrs. Tikki

[Robb]

13. "I thought I had mono for an entire year....

...But it turned out I was just bored " ;)

Actually picked it up in college after a long hiking trip. Shared water bottles, don'tcha know. Miserable.

[Nikia]

14. No, my sister and I seem to be immune

We have both kissed boyfriends with the disease and have never gotten it ourselves. My husband thinks that I am a carrier since he got the disease early in our relationship. I don't know if we have just been lucky, are genetically immune, or contracted it at an early age (I read somewhere that mono is like chicken pox in that it is much milder if contracted as a young child).

[Hell Hath No Fury]

15. Yup...

Freshman year of high school -- before I had ever been kissing ANYBODY, so that blows the whole kissing thing. :)

I was out for over a month -- my first symptoms were fatigue and pain from an enlarged spleen. Once that passed and I was almost ready to go back to school I came down with the worst case of tonscillitus I have ever had in my life.

[cally]

16. I got it when I was 7

Well I had gone to the bushes and kissed a boy. All the jokes about the kissing disease terrified me. It took me years to realize that I didn't get sick from kissing a 7 year old.

My oldest got very sick at 4. She was put in the hospital before they realized it was mono. They then tested my 10 month old. She had mono too. I still do not know how they got it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Sophomore year of college

I was in a play, and backstage there was a little kitchen where we'd prepare snacks while we weren't on stage. (Rehearsals with this director were LOOONG.) However, there was no dish soap, and no one ever thought of buying any, so we just rinsed the dishes.

Three people from the cast got mono. I was one of them.

My first symptom was a severe sore throat and weakness. Since I knew someone who had died of heart disease caused by strep, I went in for a throat culture. Because of the other cases on campus, they were routinely checking all sore throat patients for mono, and bingo!

My principal symptom was extreme physical exhaustion. It was an unusual kind of tiredness unlike the kind of tiredness that makes your brain foggy. Instead, I felt like melting into the bedding.

For about two weeks, I'd sleep till 3PM, have someone bring me a "sick tray" from the dining hall at 5PM, and stay up till 11PM. Fortunately, all my courses that quarter were reading courses, so I'd sit up and do my reading assignments for German Literature, French Civilization, and Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century English Literature.

After those two weeks, I was back to normal. I think I may have missed one test.

[jeter]

18. Twice

I...was...very...sleepy.

[chefgirl]

19. About two years ago, in the fall..

I got strep throat from my son, which can trigger mono if you've already got the virus. It's one of those that never goes away, just lies dormant.
Imagine my surprise when I tested positive for it after about three weeks of high fevers and extreme fatigue. The doctor said there was no telling how long ago I may have contracted it, and oddly enough, I dont ever remember having symptoms before then.
The worst part was having to work 12-14 hour days 5-6 days a week. I honestly dont know how I did it.
The restaurant I work at closes every year from New Years Eve till Valentines Day, so when we finally did close up for the winter I just slept and slept and slept. By the time I went back to work I felt much better, but in reality it took almost a year for me to really feel normal again.

-chef-

[grannylib]

20. Yup, got it when I was 41....took weeks to get over it. eom

[PurityOfEssence]

21. Talk about a kick in the head

I was in tenth grade. It came on just out of nowhere, and my throat swelled closed as I was unable to walk due to sudden exhaustion. Both my parents had to help me into the Doctor's office. They gave me 800k units of hydrocortisone and 800k units of penicillan and I slept something like 23 hours that day, 22 the next and 23 the next, and then came out of it fairly quickly.

It was amazing.

[geniph]

22. I had it just following graduation from high school

it was during a hot spell, and I had a temperature of 103 during a week when the temperature barely dipped below 90. I was beyond miserable. I ended up in the emergency room to have my throat opened - it sort of rotted closed. It was disgusting - you could smell the putrid throat from across the room. I couldn't swallow for about three weeks - drinking water was acutely painful. I remember having to crawl to the bathroom on my hands and knees - I literally could not stand.

I didn't have the long recovery period some people have, although I did catch any and every disease that wandered down the pike for about ten years afterward. EVERY cold, EVERY flu, EVERY case of pinkeye or strep, chickenpox, rosacea...gah.

I got it at a Led Zeppelin concert. Tip for those who haven't already figured this out: never share a joint with someone who says he's been really sick for the last couple of weeks. :eyes:

[Nailzberg]

23. Horrible case while college junior

:puke:
I was sick as a dog for two days, so I went to the University Health Services. They are famous for two things.
1. Telling all girls they are pregnant no matter what they came in for.

2. Telling all guys they had strep no matter what they came in for.

So the doctor gives me Z-pac, with is a pretty powerful anti-biotic. Never mind that throat culture to TEST for strep.

Well, the anti-biotic introduced bacteria into my system, and took the immune system by surprise, allowing the mono virus to completely destroy me.
:puke::puke::puke::puke:
Took myself off the Z pac on the second day of being three times sicker than I was before going to Health Services.
Went into town to the hospital, and told them the Health Services is incompentent, and seeing as I had coverage other than the school's insurance, they can run whatever test the want. They did. I had mono. Dumb ass Health Services.

[VOX]

24. Had it when I was 13. Missed a semester of school - yipee!

But I kept up my classes from home. Had an enlarged spleen, so no phys. ed. for a year -- worked in the library instead. Looked like a scarecrow from weight loss, so I got to have malts, shakes and fries whenever.

All these years later, I still test positive for mono once in awhile. I understand that the mono virus is related to chicken pox/herpes/shingles, so that it lives on in the nervous system for life.

Who knows what the hell it's doing in there?

[brook]

25. Had mono along with...

hepatitis. Lost about 30 lbs. before my roomate forced me to go to emergency. Spent a week in the hospital then went home to Mexico. Dr. prescribed "Bed rest and hard candy". I still have a snapshot somewhere of me in a bar in Taxco with a drink in one hand - and a lollipop in the other. (Yes, it was painful...but when you're my age, you just remember the *good* parts).

[Ilsa]

26. Yep. Just before sr. year in high school.

I was exhausted for a month. Slept alot. Lost weight.

Don't need anything like that again.