MONONUCLEOSIS SYMPTOMS

Symptoms can include, amongst others:

• sore throat and infected swollen tonsils 
• fever temperature
• extreme fatigue
• raised liver enzymes and sometimes jaundice
• swelling and pains around the lymph nodes in the groin and armpits
• excessive sweating
• pains around the spleen area

My name is Georgina Burton, and I suffered from Mononucleosis (known as Glandular fever in the UK) at the age of 17.

Virtually all of the acute mononucleosis symptoms disappeared after about 3 months . . . but over the following years I never really felt 100% ( around 75 - 80%). If you have experienced a particularly bad bout of mononucleosis (especailly if the lver has been affected)  will understand what it can be like!!

• chronic fatigue (post viral fatigue). This tiredness is usually not satisfied by sleep
• recurrent or on-going swollen tonsils and glands (white blobs on the tonsils also)
• chronic and recurrent sore throats.
• strange pains in all different parts of the body i.e. spleen area, liver area, aching legs and limbs.
• not being able to cope with lots of noise, crowds of people or strong smells (cleaning solutions, perfume, etc.) .
• and other stranger symptoms (pins and needles, cold hands and feet, not feeling all there, lack of concentration, brain fag, not being abe to find the right words  . . . )

The pattern of energy would be changeable, so that for a few days or weeks I would feel relatively normal, then, without warning, I would suffer a big energy slump, with the overriding symptom of chronic fatigue and the return of a bad phase of the old mononucleosis symptoms (sore throats, swollen glands and tonsils, sweating, aching etc.). Exercise would often bring on a delayed fatigue affect . . . 2 to 3 days later. A build up of mental, physical, psychological and / or emotional stress on the body also seemed to affect resilience, so that symptoms would re-surface as though re-activated again.
This is the affect mononucleosis can have on the body, even on one that had been physically strong and active before the illness.