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Oct. 6th, 2020
I have mono
Oct. 6th, 2020 02:29 pmEverything else came back negative. Chest X-Ray completely clear. COVID antibodies negative. No tick borne diseases. Thyroid still plugging away (but Hashimoto's antibodies off the charts, probably because of the Epstein Barr virus). So glad.
On the other hand, there's no treatment for mono, and while most people get better in the two to four weeks range, symptoms can last for six months. I'm at 46 days of symptoms, with fever on almost every day of those 46 days.
So all I can do is what I've already been doing--rest and OTC meds.
Not going to lie. I have been so miserable that I don't think I can bear the thought of feeling this badly for weeks or months more. BUT! Nobody dies of mono. I am not dying. LOL I will eventually get better, and it's not anything serious that I'm going to end up in the hospital for. I just might feel wretched for awhile longer.
Another annoying angle: mono is contagious although not overly so; it's not airborne. It's spread through saliva and, get this, sex. So as long as people aren't eating and drinking after me or kissing me and I'm carefully washing my hands if I get saliva on them and I use condoms if I ever feel well enough to have sex again LOL, I won't spread it to anyone. But get this--nobody knows exactly how long it is contagious. It can potentially be contagious for up to SIX MONTHS AFTER I GET BETTER. And once you have it, it's in your body for life and can potentially reactivate, and you can become contagious again although apparently that's pretty rare? IDK That is 100% nuts.
For the first two weeks I was sick, I was super careful in case in I had COVID and was washing my hands constantly and not sharing towels, and then in the last three weeks when it was clear I didn't have coronavirus, I was less careful. Nobody else is sick (and I still suspect that Fiona had it and gave it to Emma and I caught it; it's apparently generally mild in children and often mild in adolescents and indistinguishable from a cold), but the incubation period is four to six weeks, so everybody else could still get sick.
So, to recap: I'm not dying. I am probably going to continue to feel wretched for quite some time. I am off to bleach everything that is near my toothbrush in the bathroom and store it differently, and I guess I'm about to find out how inflation has affected the price of prophylactics.
Thanks for all your support. You are my people. *hugs*
On the other hand, there's no treatment for mono, and while most people get better in the two to four weeks range, symptoms can last for six months. I'm at 46 days of symptoms, with fever on almost every day of those 46 days.
So all I can do is what I've already been doing--rest and OTC meds.
Not going to lie. I have been so miserable that I don't think I can bear the thought of feeling this badly for weeks or months more. BUT! Nobody dies of mono. I am not dying. LOL I will eventually get better, and it's not anything serious that I'm going to end up in the hospital for. I just might feel wretched for awhile longer.
Another annoying angle: mono is contagious although not overly so; it's not airborne. It's spread through saliva and, get this, sex. So as long as people aren't eating and drinking after me or kissing me and I'm carefully washing my hands if I get saliva on them and I use condoms if I ever feel well enough to have sex again LOL, I won't spread it to anyone. But get this--nobody knows exactly how long it is contagious. It can potentially be contagious for up to SIX MONTHS AFTER I GET BETTER. And once you have it, it's in your body for life and can potentially reactivate, and you can become contagious again although apparently that's pretty rare? IDK That is 100% nuts.
For the first two weeks I was sick, I was super careful in case in I had COVID and was washing my hands constantly and not sharing towels, and then in the last three weeks when it was clear I didn't have coronavirus, I was less careful. Nobody else is sick (and I still suspect that Fiona had it and gave it to Emma and I caught it; it's apparently generally mild in children and often mild in adolescents and indistinguishable from a cold), but the incubation period is four to six weeks, so everybody else could still get sick.
So, to recap: I'm not dying. I am probably going to continue to feel wretched for quite some time. I am off to bleach everything that is near my toothbrush in the bathroom and store it differently, and I guess I'm about to find out how inflation has affected the price of prophylactics.
Thanks for all your support. You are my people. *hugs*