Multiple cases of strep as a child, mono age 14-out of school for 6 weeks, MS at 37-now 49 and hanging on the best I can. I guess we all share the common bonds of double MM's-MS & mono!
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Anybody else have a severe case of mono prior to dx?
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Same here!
Your mono story sounds very similar to mine. I had mono at 16 (and yes, I actually got it from kissing, isn't that embarrassing Anyways, then I was dx with RRMS at 26. I know that they have made some links to the 2, but they seem to link MS with just about everything these days When I was on Tysabri, they kept checking to make sure that the Mono didn't reappear. Luckily, it did not. Hope it doesn't for anyone. Mono is no fun at all (as with MS
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Originally posted by CougarMama View PostHi! My doctor calls me one of his "mono" patients because I had a severe case of mono when I was 17. I missed a month of school, got way too skinny and never really recovered my energy.
Fast forward 10 years and I get an MS diagnosis I was curious to see if anyone else had a similar story?
I had my next episode in 1993, had the MRI, and spent 8 days in the hospital. Needless to say, it was one whopper of an exacerbation!
It's been a real thrill-ride...“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway
Diagnosed 1979
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Interesting!
It's interesting to me that so many people have such similar stories! I used to have a gland in my neck (from the mono) that would get inflamed whenever I got run down (plus I would get fatigued and I never really was my pre-Mono self!)
Did anyone else have any "tells" after mono that something was not right?
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