Mono?? At my age?!

[lovemygoofy]

I'm staring at the doctor like he has grown two heads? Mono?? At 31?? The only way I'd be more suprised if he told me I was pregnant. Even less of a chance of that but now who knows.

I have been exhausted and just feeling out of the sorts for the last week or so but hey when you have almost 3 feet of snow you get out of sorts. Anyways I started feeling really bad with temperature and a sore throat on Monday and Tuesday. By Wednesday I gave in and went to the doctor who promptly stayed 5 minutes proclaimed a horrible sinus infection, ear infection and probably strep throat. Told me to take the augmentin and all would be great.

Yesterday I thought I had glass in my throat and still bad fever and glands starting to swell where you could see them visible in my neck. By lastnight my tongue was swollen and I had blisters developing, lovely huh?

I see a different doctor this mornig who told me I don't have strep that chances are very good I have mono. In addition I have a bad case of thrush because if you have mono and take penicillin thrush develops quickly. Nice, right? So now I'm home with glands that you can grab sticking out my neck, running a fever, can't hardly talk or swallow and now I have thrush.

What a Feburary I'm having. I'm not even going to dare fate to ask what's next. I know better.

 

[krcit]

Oh no!! You poor thing. Rest, rest and more rest!! Feel better.

BTW, Who've you been kissing

 

[mamacatnv]

I have a friend who is mid 40's. This past fall, after months and months of tests for some unknown ailment, she got online and came up with some "strange" things that are not common and asked her Dr. to test for them, they included Mono.
It was positive. Glad you caught yours early, she has been just dragging for months.

Feel better

 

[dislaney]

Oh gosh that sounds horrible. I hope you get to feeling better real soon!

 

[Sarah_Rose]

Ugh. I hope you feel better soon. I had what my doctor referred to as, "the worst case of mono that he'd seen in over 30 years". I could keep down nothing but purple popsicles for more than 3 weeks. Simply lying on the couch and watching an hour of TV exhausted me enough that I had to take a nap.

Like you, I had no idea how I contracted it. But it turns out that a huge portion of the population carries the mono virus without ever developing symptoms. And it can be passed on by very casual contact - like if a friend offers you a bite of her food, or a sip of her coffee. Yuck, it's just so annoying to get that diagnosis.

Lots of rest, lots of fluids (try the purple popsicles! ), and Chloroseptic lozenges are a god-send for your sore throat.

 

[minniebeth]

Feel better soon!

 

[LunchladyDoris]

Oh no the kissing disease!

jk though, hope you feel better

 

[snapppyd]

Oh you poor thing, feel better soon!

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

Yeah, I got mono when I was 34. I was equally as shocked as you (as was my doctor when the tests came back)! My throat didn't get sore until after I was diagnosed, but it's the worst that it's ever been (and I've had LOTS of bouts of tonsillitis/strep). I also found the pressure in my gut from my enlarged spleen really uncomfortable. I was pretty miserable for two weeks, but I recovered pretty quickly after that.

Hope you feel better soon. It's a yucky illness, but the good news is that you will probably only get it once!

 

[luvsJack]

Oh my! DD has had mono since Thanksgiving. I thought I read on MD Web that adults didn't get mono! Only kids/teens and very young adults (not that you are not young but like early 20's).


Hope you feel better soon. Get lots and lots of rest.

 

[JessicaR]

Oh you poor thing! You must feel so sick. That is not a reward for all that shoveling you just went through, seems very unfair! Rest as much as you possibly can. I hope it passes quickly. The fatigue can linger long after the illness is gone.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

You poor thing!
I know how it feels to swallow shards of glass...so painful.
You take care of yourself and I hope you begin to recover soon.

 

[tinkntraining]

I'm so sorry for what you're going thru -- you've had more than your share lately.
Drink lots of fluids and get the rest you need now.
Everything else can wait.

 

[PatsMom]

I hope you are feeling better soon! I had mono in my twenties when I was stationed in Oklahoma. The clinic on base was staffed largely with foreign medical graduates and it seemed like there were communication barriers. I would report to sick call, they would look in my throat, say probably strep and put me on an antibiotic. This went on for about three months and I just kept getting sicker and sicker. Finally one day I went to sick call and asked the airman doing triage if he could possibly assign me to a doctor that spoke English! I got a great doctor and when I asked that she actually look at my records, she said of course it couldn't be strep. No one had ever even tested me.

She asked if anyone had drawn blood and was quite shocked when I told her no one had ever ordered a blood test. She sent me to the lab, had me wait for results and there it was - mono! Later on I found out that the hospital personnel tended to think of all the young single women as partiers who would report to sick call to try to get some extra time off to rest. So since my symptoms were tired, sore throat, etc. they probably thought I was just partying too much!

I sincerely hope the military medical system has improved and you are getting whatever treatment you need to get better! I know there is nothing to do for mono but wait it out. Hopefully they can treat the thrush. And a also got yeast infections everytime I was on the antibiotics when I had mono so watch out for that as well!

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I managed to come with it at age 37. I ended up aking 31 consecutives days of sick leave.

 

[mtemm]

my 39 year old friend was diagnosed with it this past fall. she is only now getting over it. awful. hope you are feeling better soon!

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

I ended up with it in my late 20s. My glands were so swollen I could barely breathe and certainly couldn't swallow a thing.
I'll never forget what the doctor said when he looked in my throat "Oh yuck. That's gross!" Thanks Doc!!

 

[LuvN~Travel]

I hope you are feeling better soon! I had mono in my twenties when I was stationed in Oklahoma. The clinic on base was staffed largely with foreign medical graduates and it seemed like there were communication barriers. I would report to sick call, they would look in my throat, say probably strep and put me on an antibiotic. This went on for about three months and I just kept getting sicker and sicker. Finally one day I went to sick call and asked the airman doing triage if he could possibly assign me to a doctor that spoke English! I got a great doctor and when I asked that she actually look at my records, she said of course it couldn't be strep. No one had ever even tested me.

She asked if anyone had drawn blood and was quite shocked when I told her no one had ever ordered a blood test. She sent me to the lab, had me wait for results and there it was - mono! Later on I found out that the hospital personnel tended to think of all the young single women as partiers who would report to sick call to try to get some extra time off to rest. So since my symptoms were tired, sore throat, etc. they probably thought I was just partying too much!

I sincerely hope the military medical system has improved and you are getting whatever treatment you need to get better! I know there is nothing to do for mono but wait it out. Hopefully they can treat the thrush. And a also got yeast infections everytime I was on the antibiotics when I had mono so watch out for that as well!

I had a similar problem when I got it at 26. The clinic I was going to (which stayed open later and went there since I worked nights) was being staffed mainly by foreign born doctors. For six months they kept finding strep, upper respiratory infections, UTIs, etc. while telling me I just needed to lose weight! Nothing like a fat white American woman to bring out their prejudices. It wasn't until I had a reaction to a sulfa drug and went to a different clinic with an American born woman doctor that I was finally diagnosed! And, yes at NO time had any of the other doctors even done a simple blood test on me.....

Tina definitely get your rest girl!

Kim

 

[marcyinPA]

I hope you feel better soon!!!

I actually know two adults who had mono...both in their 30's! I think it's not that uncommon, really.

hugs to you!!

 

[bumbershoot]

About the thrush, when DS had it as a baby, we used Gentian Violet. Just put it on the inside of his mouth each day, and the thrush was gone in just a few days.

It tastes disgusting. It stains you purple. You don't want to use it for a long long time or in large quantities. But for a few days, when you're not feeling well anyway and should just stay home, it would almost surely be extremely helpful!

It's CHEAP, too, about a buck or two. Can be hard to find; I would call around to various pharmacies (especially the small, independent ones), and if you have what's called a "compounding pharmacy", call them, they are almost sure to have it! Some people (like my stepmom who is a nurse) call it "triple dye" but the bottles say Gentian Violet.