tired all the time! Mono?????

Check with the school nurse before you talk to your parents. They will know more.

 

what the hell crappy school do you go to!!?

 

oh, then you should go to the hospital if you don't have a family doctor..

 

well there is doctor patient confidentiality but i don't know the exact details when it comes to minors. besides you could have possibly got mono because someone was drinking from the water fountain with their mouth too close to it.

 

Yes, Mono is nicknamed the "kissing disease", but you don't have to get it from kissing. You can get it from any transfer of saliva. Someone could have shared a drink, taken a bite of your food, or even sneezed and you could catch it.

You should probably go to the doctor to get things checked out. You may have mono or could be anemic (low iron). There are many reasons to be tired all the time, but the only way to really know is to go to the doctor.

 

Ok - that's just dumb. Your mom 'shunned' her neice for having mono? How completely uneducated is she?

You don't have to have kissed someone to have caught mono. I got it when I was in my mid 20s and have no idea where I caught it. I do know why though - I was completely and totally stressed out and run down. There were a bunch of things going on in my life.

However, it's more than just general tiredness though - I think. For me, I thought I had a massive throat infection / flu. I'd rest and start to feel better, but as soon as I went back to work I'd feel horrible again - REALLY horrible. My throat was so sore I could hardly swallow water, never mind food.

This obviously isn't something chronic - you've only potentially had it since Jan 1?!? I'd say you likely wore yourself out over the holidays and now you're in 'catch up' mode. So get EXTRA sleep. If you're still dead tired and getting 10 hours of sleep a night after 2 weeks, THEN you've got something to worry about.

 

With glandular fever (mono) you generally get a sore throat and the glands in your body get swollen, like the glands under your arms for instance. You would also have fever.

 

My friend caught mono last August. Her boyfriend didn't have it (though we made a joke out of it, lol). She got it from someone sneezing on her.

She didn't get it checked out soon enough so she was really sick, like she was hooked up to IVs in a hospital for about a week. She couldn't do ANY form of physical activity that would require cardio, because of her lungs.

Get it checked out.

 

Let us know what you find out from the doctor.

 

You don't need to mention mono or anything else to her now. Just tell her some of the symptoms and that you are going to the doctor to get it checked out. Then she won't get agitated about it being mono or whatever before you get a diagnosis.

 

could it be stress? change in diet? etc. it could be anything. Do you have any other symptoms?

 

its probably not mono, and it might be more like a melatonin inbalance. If you dont get enough exposure to sunlight your body has trouble regulating melatonin (which is the hormone for skin pigmentation and also helps regulate our cyrcadian rythm) so basically your clock battery is running slow. You can get herbal suppliments (vitamins) and they should help. If it is mono, you would have body aches and extreme muscle fatigue as well as sleepiness, and you need to go to a doctor sooner than later, bc mono is no good, a simple blood test will tell. let me know how it turns out