[QUOTE="tccavey2"][QUOTE="Krigen89"] Kinda hard for me to say, since when I went to the doctor they said they'd call me back if I was positive, which they didn't... then a month later I went back because I could barely eat or drink and was always asleep, they redid the test and it was positive...
From there it lasted little over 2 weeks, but the whole month before... dunno.
What I know is at the time the doctor wanted me to quit school, I said no because it was may and I didn't want to ruin my whole year for this, so I'd get up in the morning, sleep the bus ride (45-60 minutes), then do my thing as well as I could in the day, then sleep the ride home, then TRY to eat something and then sleep 12-14hours 'till the next morning... worst month of my life. Well, no, but at the time it was.
EDIT: don't forget you'll always have it in you, it can come back pretty much anytime, as soon as you start having a poorer immune system or being too tired... I've been lucky so far, cause it never came back and I have the worst lifestyle ever.
Krigen89
Dude. I have never heard of Mono ruining a whole year of someones life, or of it coming back at any time, or of a doctor telling someone to quit school of it. Your exaggerating.
The only really bad part of mono lasts 2 weeks at the most.
Take some reading classes. I meant I didn't want it to ruin my school year, because it was may and the end of year exams were coming... And no, mono doesn't last "2 weeks at the most", it can last months for some people!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_mononucleosis
"After an initial prodrome of 1-2 weeks, the fatigue of infectious mononucleosis often lasts from 1-2 months. The virus can remain dormant in the B cells indefinitely after symptoms have disappeared, and resurface at a later date."
And just look at those symptoms... I had extreme fatigue, weakness, sore throat/enlarged tonsils, barely could swallow food, enlarged spleen (the doctor was actually concerned by it, thought it could rupture, which is part of why he wanted me to stay in bed and not go to school), and sometimes (although nothing which would usually stop me) abdominal pain...
Don't try to teach me about something I lived through, added to the fact that I'm a nurse.
I type lazy online, I'm not stupid. I have also had mono (along with many of my friends). It really sucked for like two weeks and then I was just tired there on after. This is the same story I have heard from just about everyone...
I'm guessing mono affects you in more severe ways as you age (considering your probably signifigantly older than me), but I have never heard of mono lasting many months at a time. I guess you just have a terrible immune system.
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