Has anyone else had relapses tied to the time of year of the original infection? I am wondering if getting sick in July both years was a coincidence or not.
Interesting that you had pneumonia and were hospitalized prior to mono, CatherineZeta. I was hospitalized with pneumonia at 14 and a year later got mono.
I haven’t had any adult recurrences of the mono but it took me probably two years to be totally over it. My doctor kept telling my mother my exhaustion was hormones but I think it was mono. How well I remember that feeling that walking to the bathroom was like a trek to Everest.
Best of luck with your recoveries, raider19 and Sticks and Scones. I think having it at a very young age was lucky; I cannot imagine trying to go to college classes with mono.
All of you who had that situation have my sympathy, and my admiration.
I can’t remember what time of year my two instances were. They were both during the school year, but that doesn’t really narrow it down much.
I don’t remember, either. One was during the school year and the other one occurred after I had been at my job for about 8-10 years.
I had it when I was 19 (it’s more commonly called Glandular Fever here). A specialist I had seen for a different problem had the blood test results that showed I had GF, but took several months to pass them on to my primary physician. He, in turn, never tested me for GF, so I went undiagnosed for months. Despite suffering fatigue so intense that I struggled to get from my room to the bathroom and back, all the advice I received was to “get some exercise”, as I think I was assumed to be suffering depression. I dragged myself out of bed and went on long walks, but only got worse and worse. By the time the GF diagnosis came through, I was experiencing intense pain all over my body, and I was eventually diagnosed with fibromyalgia. It was years before I got well. I still fatigue easily, and seem to catch everything going around, and when I get a cold it tends to last 6 weeks.
I do wonder if my outcome would have been better if I’d rested in the initial months of the illness instead of trying to exercise it away.
“Glandular fever” sounds familiar. I believe that was the informal term my doctor used.
Thank you. I got it while student teaching. It was hell.
I was just reminded today of another symptom that has stuck with me. I had a very long week including a job fair with 6 interviews, not getting enough sleep because I’d had a cold and I was coughing, and the end of the grading period at work. Well, anyways, I find when I’m overly tired that my fine motor skills, etc. go out the window. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I’ve dropped 20 things today and sometimes I have difficulty turning pages or picking up pencils.
Had it when I was 19 (as many in this thread), and it kicked my butt for about 6 months. Had to quit my job and could barely attend school.
Never came back, though, and I felt 100% afterwards.