I found out I had mono over a month ago. The sore throat is better, but the headache and fatigue continue to be present. I have not worked for four weeks and I'm sleeping 10-14 hours a day. At this point it just seems that it will never go away. I have a rash on my body that continues to itch and be an annoyance. If you begin to have a sore throat and are falling a sleep at work, go to the doctor.

My 7-year-old was just told by our doctor that she has mono. She started out with a really bad sore throat. I took a flash light and looked in her throat, and her tonsils were big and red and had the white patches on them. She also ran a fever. I totally thought she had strep throat. She had all the classic signs and symptoms of it. So my advice is to really get checked out as soon as possible! My twin sister had it years ago, and her symptoms were different from my daughter's. It seems to show up in a lot of different ways.

OMG, I was feeling really run down, I knew something wasn't right in my body, and then I woke up with a sore throat from hell. It felt like I had knives in my throat. I went to the doctor they said it was strep throat and sent me home with antibiotics, well I didn't get better, so I went back and my doctor took an Epstein Barr test and it came back positive for it. I have strep, mono and a staff infection on my legs (like impetigo) all this is the worst thing. They say it could take weeks to months to get over this Mono. I just lay around.

I was diagnosed yesterday with mono. I have a red rash about five times a day all over my body. I have a very swollen, red throat with white patches on it (it hurts so bad to swallow my own saliva at times). I have headaches. As of today, I started getting stomach aches. I have the urge to sleep all day and night and not eat much at all. The only thing I found to help me from waking up with headaches or stomachaches is ibuprofen.

I noticed myself being quite tired and spacey, always needing to sit down if I did a little work. Then I noticed the back of my neck had two large lumps (lymph nodes) and the very next morning, I woke up with stiff joints all over my body, especially in my fingers and wrists. I thought I'd overworked them playing softball, but after a few days it persisted. It got to the point that I couldn't lift things I normally do and my elbows also hurt. I went to my doctor and she sent me for blood tests, which showed that I was positive for mono. Other symptoms I've experienced include a low-grade fever, a constant lingering headache and a stiff neck from the lymph nodes that never went down.

I was very tired and stiff with a sore throat for about six weeks. I would work three hours, then sleep for four hours. This went on for about three weeks. The same thing was happening to my husband and my 18-year-old daughter. We all just chalked it up to a virus and just getting older with aches and pains. About a month later, after most of the symptoms went away, I went to the doctor for a UTI infection and blood was drawn when I told her I just couldn't get my energy back. A week later, I was called and the nurse said I was recovering from mono quite well and that sometime in the past three months I had contracted the virus. I guess if you are not diagnosed right away, you deal with it.

I'm 17 years old. My first symptom was like the stomach flu. I was in a lot of pain. I could barely sleep. I wasn't hungry. I couldn't walk without pain and had a constant chest pain. After a week, I went to the hospital they did three blood tests, a mono test, a urinary test and one other one and found nothing wrong expect that I was dehydrated. About three days later, I went to my doctor, and he did a mono test that was positive. He said I probably had it since March and I never knew about it until late June. It's currently July and I still have my bad chest cold and wake up to where I can't breathe. Some people are lucky and have it easy, and some have it long. The only thing I can do is sleep and eat very little.