isnt galnduler fever the pits? eh?
For all you Yankers out there, Glandular fever is known in the US as ‘mono’.
Let the discussion begin.
I know a Scot who’s been off work for three years with it, he claims. Every few months he goes into work for 1 week exactly, and then retires back on disability, claiming he cannot even walk to the car.
He does play a lot of football on weekends, though. So it can’t be all that bad.
Speaking as somebody who’s had it for two years, let me clarify a couple of things for Anthracite and anybody else:
First of all you CAN have it for three years. I’ve had it for two now; I knew a teacher of mine who had it for something like 6. You have the disease FOR LIFE so far as I know (everybody has told me this and I’ve never heard of a miracle recovery).
My first attack of glandular fever lasted three months - an entire school term. As in assignement, exams - STRESS. You really could have no energy to walk to a car - I did. I went to maybe 2/3 of school on a good week, I’d often go home at midday and lie down watching TV with my mother, and that was all I could do. I had automatic extensions, ON DEMAND, ANY TIME, on any assesment I had to do because otherwise if I’d had a bad week and gotten behind I’d simply stress and get WORSE.
There were at times good days when I’d be completely normal, but MANY when I had to stay home. So before you label me (or anybody else) a slacker, you should I actually felt guilty about leaving school but when I did there was NO OTHER CHOICE. And that my energy really DID fluctuate that drastically.
I can remember once feeling a little stressed (it was Shop A, which I was really bad at, and we were designing cars; I felt scared that mine would be bad) which caused me to break town in tears in class ten minutes in and have to leave school for the DAY.
And once I got over the inital attack it did not leave me. I have relapsed MANY times. It’s never as severe as the first time but it’s still a huge burden.
It’s possible this guy is not lying, if his case is SEVERE. Maybe.
If he IS lying, however, then I hope he will grow up because it’s not such a thing to be taken lightly.
So yeah, it’s the pits. I’m presuming you’ve just got it, welloso. If you want support on this give me a yell, ok?
One more thing; to anybody who has the attitude that getting it is an honour (due to it being the kissing disease), like one person I can remember:
Please don’t ever tell me this.
Or I will break your face.
Thank you.
I had it at the time when it’s apparently very likely for you to get it; just after the stress of my finals. Lasted about 3/4 months, and I promise you, it can be the pits. I had extreme difficulty in swallowing even liquid, and was bed-ridden for about 6 weeks. Talk about no energy - I practically lost the will to live. Thankfully that was a good long time ago, and it has never recurred. I’ve heard it said that many people carry it (presumably I do too) and that it can recur during periods when the body’s immune system is at a low ebb.
Sorry to be the bearer of good tidings, but I had mono, and it was nothing like what you guys are describing (and it was mono–I got my blood tested.) I started out with a terrible sore throat, and was tired for about a week. After that, I was fine. It’s weird-I always hear such horror stories about mono, and was petrified when I found out that I had it, but after a few weeks I was completely fine.
Mine was tested as mono too. I guess it affects people differently. You were lucky.
Yeah, I had it my senior year in high school. Knocked me out for about 3 weeks. I just stayed in bed and slept all day.
But I’ve been fine ever since.
Mono can go latent, if I remember correctly, but it’s rare. Look at it this way, if it comes back you have neutralizing antibodies already generated so subsequent rounds of the disease are very short.
Yup, I had it in college. I knew something was wrong when I fell asleep in class, the first time this had ever happened to me. I was diagnosed with mono, and I had to drop out of school for that semester. It went on for about 2-3 months. I don’t remember feeling absolutely terrible at any one time, but I do remember feeling like a wrung-out rag most of the time. I would sometimes sleep almost around the clock. Why is it that people tend to catch it in their late teens, early 20’s?