That can be a really nice look.
Posted on 01/12/2006 8:39:35 AM PST by dhls
Hi Kat
How are you?
Mono is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus. I read something that about 95 percent of 35-40 year olds test positive for the virus. (There are other mono-like diseases caused by other viruses, btw).
Here's some cheery facts from the CDC:
DISEASE INFORMATION
Epstein-Barr virus, frequently referred to as EBV, is a member of the herpesvirus family and one of the most common human viruses. The virus occurs worldwide, and most people become infected with EBV sometime during their lives. In the United States, as many as 95% of adults between 35 and 40 years of age have been infected. Infants become susceptible to EBV as soon as maternal antibody protection (present at birth) disappears. Many children become infected with EBV, and these infections usually cause no symptoms or are indistinguishable from the other mild, brief illnesses of childhood. In the United States and in other developed countries, many persons are not infected with EBV in their childhood years. When infection with EBV occurs during adolescence or young adulthood, it causes infectious mononucleosis 35% to 50% of the time.
Symptoms of infectious mononucleosis are fever, sore throat, and swollen lymph glands. Sometimes, a swollen spleen or liver involvement may develop. Heart problems or involvement of the central nervous system occurs only rarely, and infectious mononucleosis is almost never fatal. There are no known associations between active EBV infection and problems during pregnancy, such as miscarriages or birth defects. Although the symptoms of infectious mononucleosis usually resolve in 1 or 2 months, EBV remains dormant or latent in a few cells in the throat and blood for the rest of the person's life. Periodically, the virus can reactivate and is commonly found in the saliva of infected persons. This reactivation usually occurs without symptoms of illness.
EBV also establishes a lifelong dormant infection in some cells of the body's immune system. A late event in a very few carriers of this virus is the emergence of Burkitt's lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma, two rare cancers that are not normally found in the United States. EBV appears to play an important role in these malignancies, but is probably not the sole cause of disease.
*chuckle*
I'll be okay.
I just have to avoid sunlight for extended periods not to exceed three minutes.
Yes, a constant body temp of 97.1 tends to translate as constantly being cold, and inability to keep warm at night.
I can wear bluejeans, turtleneck, and a button down collar long sleeve shirt in 90 degree weather without breaking a sweat.
I got it at 15...kept me in bed for 6 weeks with fever of 104. Lived off of excedrin the entire time...it would reduce the fever to 100 or thereabouts...
I dislike machines.
That can be a really nice look.
Hanging in there...found out my sinus infection still isn't totally resolved, but it's supposedly healing and I am back on antibiotics for a few days and flonase...
Today was a pretty good day. Got back on my diet (in spite of being a bit sick) and my blood sugars must be better or something. I don't feel as well when I eat a normal amount of carb in my diet...and maybe also I feel better because the days are getting noticably longer here in Utah
Yes.
Had heard previously, from multiple docs, that there was 'no credible link between mono and EBV'.. so much for those docs.
Yes, I run the risk of giving mono to anyone who comes into close contact with me for the 'rest of my [un]natural life' pretty much should it become active again.
So I tend to freak whenever someone drinks from my cup or such.
Not because I might get sick, but because they might end up looking like death warmed over after an all night bender.
You and my husband. Naturally cooler. When I run a temp of 97.1 and it's not morning, then I'm either having problems with my biliary system or I am just cold, and I go and take a hot shower until I look like a lobster and feel better!
Highest fever I got with mono spiked at 103 for one day and then dropped like a rock.
Then the headaches with aura started, with periodic blood pressure drop blackouts.
I must think backwards!
I thought you would be hot, but you're cool.
;-D
Most of'em already have it anyway...so not to worry so much.
Ain't nothing like them blood pressure drops...people who haven't had it don't know what they're missing.
I've freaked out a few nurses with it.
Last round of blood tests had them checking my blood oxygen content to see if I had a hole in my heart.
Or some such.
In my family, I am so far the only one.
Machines and devices are fine - if they behave as slave rather than master.
Longer days are better.
:-)
I suspect you got a weird autoimmune reaction...
I was sick for a year after I had mono, but I did get better.
It's strange, and hard to explain without seeing.
I've only broken a sweat a few times, but I was also out in the sun burning up and working in a garden.
You saw auras?
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