Any adults ever have mono?

You're gonna die.

Had it in college....it's the worst. Make sure you take all the required rest though, because relapsing is worse. I speak from experience.

I had it at 17. 1 week of agony followed by a month of having little to no energy.

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and some pain killers

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what kind of pain are you having?

Having a buddy fart in your face was the only legit cure IIRC

Remember when Corey Brewer had the mono back in college?

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rash all over my body that is a reaction that the mono has to the antibiotics.

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been there, done that. Sucked bad. I was 21 or 22 BTW when i got it. Rash only lasted a weekend. Quit taking the antibiotics. The mono lasted about two weeks.


i don't think the rash is the result of the antibiotics reacting to the mono. I think its you reacting to the antibiotics. I can't take certain forms of penicillin anymore b/c I started to have reactions to it. I never had any adverse reactions until i was an adult.

Mine lasted 3-4 weeks. I never had the sore throat, but just felt completely lethargic, had no appetite and had fever.

I sweated uncontrollable when I had it. I would get out the shower, dry off, and 5 minutes later my hair was soaked. I had to sleep on towels at night and change clothes several times before going to work because of sweating through. I was giving a presentation and got stopped to ask if I was okay because of the sweat pouring down my face.

The upside was I lost 15 lbs.

i ran a constant fever for 21 days. took about 7-8 bottles of tylenol and aleve to keep fever down. it was miserable.

We've had several kids at work (I'm in a high school) that have had it throughout the year. It usually comes in waves and we end up having to work with the kids to do half-days for a couple weeks while they try to work back up to having enough energy to do a full school day.

Don't be surprised if it takes a few weeks to shake the lethargy from it. You also need to be careful if you're a fairly active/athletic person as they typically write our kids off any contact sports due to enlargement of the spleen.