_lilvicki_

Hi everyone, I just joined.

Anyway, latley (within the last month or so) I've been very tired, sleeping about.. 15 hours a day (I'm someone who usually could function on 6). I keep recalling a day last week I got home from school at 10 am, and slept all day until 6, then woke up for 5 minutes or so and fell back to sleep until 1 am, woke up, and fell asleep an hour later and slept until 7am when I got up for school. And I was still tired! I took another nap when I got home. I have an extremley severe sore throat that started about...hmm...a week and a half ago? It started out not so bad, I used some throat spray and I was fine. I noticed the glands in my neck were a little swollen, but I didn't let it bother me at that point, I thought I had a cold or something.

Unfortunatley, it got much worse, my right tonsil swelled up and got hard and the glands on the right side of my neck got bigger. Then I noticed icky white stuff started appearing on it, and it wasn't long before my left tonsil started swelling up too. Now both tonsils are swollen and they both have white plaque on them. It's extremley painful to swallow and eat. I can't open my mouth too wide either. For the last three days, I've been taking ibuprofen non-stop because the pain in my throat is so bad. Also, my right ear is killing me. I sometimes have a dull head ache, and today the back and sides of my head hurts along with my throat and glands being so sore.

Despite being so tired, I can't sleep for long periods of time because the advil wears off in a couple of hours and I wake up from the pain again. Then I can't fall asleep until another dosage kicks in. I know it can't be good for me to keep taking so much advil either. But

My uncle's a doctor and a week and a half -two weeks ago, when my glands first swelled up, he gave me biaxxin to take. It didn't work so I stopped taking it. Actually I recall one night I started getting really itchy. I broke out in a rash all over my body. The more I scratched, the more it spread. No fun... I heard of people with mono getting a rash? Any ideas?

So I went to my doctor yesterday and I'm going for bloodwork today to see if I have mono. I've been very sick for the last month or so. I was out of school for a week two weeks ago, and despite the fact that I wasn't a 100% I went back for a week. The week after I was out everyday except for Friday and I've been out all thisw week so far. My doc said not to go back until the results for the test come back. ::Sigh:: I hate missing school, but at the same time I don't feel up to it, or anything for that matter. I hate having the urge to do something but not having the strength to do it. It gets very boring. My days have consisted of warm baths, naps, popping pills, including another anti-biotic thats not working anyway, watching tv, and just generally lying around. I feel like a waste of life.

I made out with a boy in August a number of times...He had mono in the beginning of the summer and he got so sick he was in the hospital. Is it possible I could've gotten it from him? Even tho he didn't have the symptoms anymore? 2 months after the fact?

I won't know for sure until the test results come back. I don't know how long that's gonna take. I'm actually leaving in 10 minutes to get it done. I'm scared.

Anyone have any input at all? What do you guys think?


Thanks

Ciao ciao<3