I am a 15 (nearly 16) year old girl, and I was diagnosed with Glandular fever about 6 months ago, although it is thought i've had it for the past year.


I don't appear to have it that bad, apart from my throat. It has been painful every day of the last year without fail.

Every couple of weeks it gets really bad. My throat gets worse than usual, I get really tired, get bad headaches feel really weak and like, one minute i'm roasting, then next i'm freezing (can't think how to properly describe it...). This usually lasts for a few days, then it's just back to the constant bad throat.


My sleep is also affected, and i'm lucky if i get 3 hours of sleep each night.


I've just started, what is, hopefully to be my last year of school, and I am planning on going to University this time next year, so there is alot of stress right now, as I'm trying to sit 5 highers (scottish quailfications) and I'm editing the school paper, which takes a lot of time.




However, the stress of early mornings, when i've had no sleep, and having to go to school is really getting me down. I feel that if i take, even an afternoon off school, it's really hard to catch up, and so I'm going to school ill. Then i lag behind anyway, because i'm so worn out when i get back from school that i go straight to bed, and don't do homework.


Teachers don't believe me when i tell them i've been ill, because it is 'my regular excuse' and they don't believe you can have glandular feaver for a prolonged time.


Does anybody know of any cure, or at lease any way of coping with the stress of school, because it seems to be stress which is triggering the worse times.


Or even if Glandular fever can last for long periods of time like mine appears to have?

Or do my symptoms appear to be for something else, and the glandular fever result was faulse, because i was tested twice for it, the first time it came back negative, but when the positive result came out, it was just expected there was something wrong with my first test....


Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Kaytee

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Thank you

Kaytee,
Upper level school can be extremely stressful. I used to unleash my stress through "football" (soccer here in the US) and track. I would run and bash it out. I played soccer all the way through college... alot of aggresion... Talk to your best friend, your parents, a favorite teacher. Communication can always help lessen the stress it helps to just unload on occasion. You can always vent here and I am sure someone will read (listen), and advise to the best of their ability.

First have you been to an ENT? I lived in Scotland for 4 yrs and England for 4 yrs before coming back to the states. I know how difficult the state health care can be, but if the glandular fever is based in your tonsils and an on going affair... you may need to have a T&A. (Tonsilectomy and adnoidectomy) Continual throat and head infections can be extremely draining, get yourself on the waiting list ASAP. Throat and sinus infection problems always begin to pickup in the fall flu/cold season.

If it is determined that a tonsillectomy is required, you are still young and will be able to recover quicker than some of us old guys. My family all have had or will have their tonsils out. At 31, I am anxiously awaiting my surgery date, we don't need tonsils anyway.

Sincerely,
MG