anyone else had it.

she gave me Predinsone to help me 'enjoy the thanksgiving break better'

11/19/2009 4:43:16 PM

got mono 8 or 9 years ago...didn't really do much, personally

11/19/2009 4:43:56 PM

OH NOES. NOT THE KISSING DISEASE!

11/19/2009 4:44:04 PM

11/19/2009 4:44:28 PM

booya!

11/19/2009 4:46:40 PM

Lucky dog.

The prednisone will supposedly help with throat swelling so you can breathe easier, but everyone I've known with mono had to just suffer through it.

My husband had mono back in 02 and it sucked. It took him a long time to feel normal again.

11/19/2009 4:46:41 PM

i got mono my sophomore year at state...missed a week of class and lost like 10-12lbs


F experience do not recommend

11/19/2009 4:47:20 PM

I had mono my junior year. Pure misery for about a week and then I was fine again. But make sure you get lots and lots of sleep, you don't want to get the related fatigue syndrome.

11/19/2009 4:57:04 PM

aha I had it one summer a year or two back. Shit sucked major balls.

Don't fight the need for rest. Viscous lidocaine is awesome, but tastes positively wretched. It's tricky getting it as far down as possible, without swallowing.

It was all pretty much a blur. I doped myself on nighttime cold meds

11/19/2009 5:44:57 PM

you're all going to die from lymphoma now

11/19/2009 5:51:55 PM

hope you recover quickly, man.

11/19/2009 5:53:26 PM

I had it my freshman year at state...was the worse 5 days of my life. I lost 20 lbs (weighed 270lbs @ 6'5")...had strep throat, fever, chills, etc. only started to improve after my dad prescribed prednisone after three days of agony. you'll be good to go in 3 days after starting prednisone...good luck with the recovery.

11/19/2009 6:17:54 PM

i felt tired and weak for about a month but was able to function somewhat at work

for one week i could not get out of bed i've heard some people call it hell week which sums it up nicely

couldn't go to the gym and on new year's i must have drank 10 red bull and vodkas and still felt sober and tired

11/19/2009 6:21:58 PM

I've never had it *knock on wood*

11/19/2009 6:26:45 PM

i've had it twice awful

11/19/2009 6:32:08 PM

I went to the doctor today and apparently I have some sort of rare heart murmur. And not like "oh it's no big deal" rare, but "yeah, you can just drop dead at any time" rare.

so your mono can kiss my ass

11/19/2009 7:07:03 PM

I once had a fake case of mono, it resulted in me skipping the first month of my senior year in high school

11/19/2009 7:08:42 PM

yea my energy level has been a 1. these meds are helping a bunch thought. she said i was lucky though....normally your tonsils get really swollen...but i got mine taken how when i was 5.

11/19/2009 7:49:42 PM

wrap it up next time

11/19/2009 7:51:05 PM

i had mono my freshman year at state....got prednisone....never really felt tired....just bad sore throat and swollen lymph nodes...i got over it in like 3 days

11/19/2009 7:54:27 PM

lucky
the first time i had mono it took me almost a month to recover

11/19/2009 8:40:11 PM

^same here

Half the football team got it because our coach didn't believe in giving us water during practice and after practice we all had to drink out of one nasty plastic cup. I'm not making this up.

ask thumper's husband. I dont think he played, but he knew the coach. total fuckup lucky he didn't kill some people

11/19/2009 8:43:46 PM

Quote :

"i've had it twice awful"

Nah, you might have had it once, but not twice. Doctors often diagnose mono to college students when they just have a bad cold or some other virus.

There are other viruses similar to mono that aren't quite as bad, the REAL mono will have you on your ass for between 1 and 2 weeks, and you won't feel right for about a month afterwards.

[Edited on November 19, 2009 at 8:49 PM. Reason : point being, you can only get mononucleosis ONCE]

11/19/2009 8:48:56 PM

well
i had it once at the end of high school and then i was told i had it again shortly after starting college. but that np was kind of shitty so i believe you

11/19/2009 8:51:31 PM

mono is a great diet though. you'd think california would have come up with mono districts or ways to keep it indefinitely

11/19/2009 8:55:50 PM

Quote :

"I went to the doctor today and apparently I have some sort of rare heart murmur. And not like "oh it's no big deal" rare, but "yeah, you can just drop dead at any time" rare. so your mono can kiss my ass"

Im sorry bro, I got similar news about 2 months ago thanks to my cancer drugs from back in the day

11/19/2009 9:18:08 PM

dont sweat it bros. if it were a genuine threat they'd do a fluoride injection or give you pacemakers. just dont lose sleep over it ok

11/19/2009 9:31:31 PM