Thank you soo much! I do feel like I am going nuts and yes my legs do get week today at the store I just held on the cart and just wanted to cry! You I thought of the mono antibotic rash thing! the rash comes and goes its soo annoying I do have it on my thighs and its not going away there! I did have a sore throat a week ago but it was mild and I didnt think nothing of it... I generally have a low body temp around 97.6 is and my temp is running around 98.8 so I guess its slightly up from my norm but really didnt think much of it! Before the lymph nodes and the very tired feeling I was having major Nausea and to the point I couldnt even smell food period today the Nausea is a bit better but I still dont wanna eat but yes I have forced my self to eat even in small amounts just because I thought if I dont eat my energy lvls will just get worse! Thanks so much for sharing your story with me I have been scared to dealth it was cancer or something like that and that just freaks me out! I hope Monday they will have my Mono spot back and if for some reason it comes back neg I will be asking for the EBV blood test and the 3 day Mono test!
and Yes I will add vitamins to my diet tonight!
I just got over mono, my second flare in 6 months. Unless they do the full test they can't accurately diagnose mono because they have to differentiate between current active infection and past infection. 99 percent of people have the Eppstein Barr virus that causes mono but only a percentage actually get mono. I did get mono and did have that definitive test to prove it. I did not get a bad sore throat, a very mild ignorable sore throat which didn't last long at all. I also did not get a fever, and if I did it was mild. Most mono cases have mild to no fever. But, yes, mono feels like a serious illness. I am 6 months out and now I have anemia and vitamin d deficiency and I can only suppose that either those deficiencies allowed mono to creep in or vice-versa. You will lose your appetite big time. Food doesn't even sound or look good. I don't think it even smelled good at the time. Your legs will get weak. Walk up one flight of stairs and you will feel like you've done a 45 minute aerobic workout for the first time in your life. You get shaky, tired, depressed. It's pathetic. And with mono, certain antibiotics can cause a rash, and Keflex is one of them. This would make me think you do indeed have mono, but hard to believe your doctor didn't pick up on the antibiotic mono rash connection. It's very well documented. It's a mono reaction that is not dangerous but if annoying the recommend you get one of the antibiotics that will not cause a rash.
Some of the mono symptoms like sore throat and fever may appear later. All I can say is eat as many small meals as you can. You will have to force yourself but if you don't you may end up with my issues 6 months later. I would also take a multivitamin because you may lose some nutrition during this time. It usually only lasts 6 weeks and that was the case for my son and husband but not for me. The first two weeks is the worst and after that you gradually feel better. The appetite thing gets worse before it gets better but I can't stress more that you need to eat what you can and do take a vitamin. I don't want you to end up with my problems. You will feel like you're going crazy because it's an all out war on your body and mono can do many, many things. In my opinion it's a rogue virus and if it wants to give you pain in your baby toe, it will. The anemia and vitamin deficiency I was left with made it even worse. Mono was actually nothing compared to those so please eat what you can. Hang in there!