Please be patient with this longish story.
I'm hoping to get some insight here into what's happening to me.
Back in mid-October, I started feeling a bit more tired than usual.
A few days into this, I started waking up with terrible shakes -
it was quite warm in my bedroom (72+ degrees), but I shook for
up to 40 minutes or so. No appetite to speak of, but I'd occasionally
feel hungry around five or six o'clock.
My bowel movements alternated between diarrhea and constipation.
In addition, during the day I'd feel woozy, malaise, hot, cold and hot
again, with some odd sensations on my skin.
In addition, I'd also feel aches in my lymph nodes, and along my thighs.
I'd also feel odd skin "annoyances" as if I'd find a cut or bruise
but nothing would show up.
The symptoms faded a bit as time wore on, but I was still worried.
An endoscopy of my upper GI tract revealed only a hiatal hernia and
a touch of esophogeal damage from acid reflux.
I still didn't feel so great, so with a lot of trepidation I told my
doctor to do an HIV test.
It came back negative (thank Goodness), but positive for mono.
I continued to improve, and during most of January, I felt about
as energetic as I could, with an excellent appetite, although
I still seemed to be utterly unable to get up early like I used to
(8:30 to 9:30 instead of 6:30 or 7:00)
However, I'm feeling more fatigued lately, my neck is stiffening up,
all of my knuckles seem a bit discolored, and most alarmingly,
I'm feeling odd tingles at the tips of my fingers and toes and nose.
I also woke up with the shakes a couple of times, but not nearly
as bad as back in October. Also feeling some odd itches,
mostly on the sides of my neck, insides of elbows, and in the
deltoid part of my chest.
One piece of good news is that an initial blood workup back in late Oct/early
November showed everything in normal range - and this was right around when
the sympoms were especially bad.
Please, if anyone can decode these symptoms and give me an idea.
I suspect it's all related to having mono, but I'm afraid it may
be something worse. |