Mono symptoms can come on suddenly and it may take a week or 2 weeks after infections to start showing symptoms of the mono.
When you have mono you may experience symptoms such as feeling more tired than usual and have a mild fever and sore throat.
Your lymph nodes, tissue that normally acts as filters, may swell under your arms and in your neck and groin area.
You also may have body aches and pains, swollen tonsils, headache, and even a skin rash.
Mono is not curable as there's no cure for mono.
However the mono virus will go away on it's own and the illness with mono will go away on it's own.
To know if you have mono or the flu it's best to go to the doctor to find out for sure.
However with mono the symptoms can sometimes last longer than the flu and you may feel worse with the flu than you do with mono.
With mono you might feel more tired than usual and have a mild fever and sore throat.
Your lymph nodes, tissue that normally acts as filters, may swell under your arms and in your neck and groin area.
You also may have body aches and pains, swollen tonsils, headache, and even a skin rash.
Mono Symptoms Tend to Be Similar to Those of Colds and the Flu — but They May Be Worse and Last Longer.
Mono tends to bring about the same symptoms as a cold or flu, but they linger longer and can be more severe.
Symptoms of mono typically appear anywhere from four to six weeks after someone gets infected with EBV.
The mono virus stays with you forever but the illness from mono does eventually go away within a week to 14 days.
Mono does eventually go away on it's own but the mono virus will stay in your body for the rest of your life.
Still after you recover from mono you're no longer contagious.
In rare cases you can die from mono.
Although most cases of mono are not that serious enough to cause death.
Mono can be deadly in rare cases but most cases of mono are not serious enough to cause death.
Mono can be dangerous and even fatal.
Although for most people mono is nothing serious and usually goes away on it's own.
For most people, mono isn't serious, and it improves without treatment.
Still, extreme fatigue, body aches and other symptoms can interfere with school, work and daily life.
With mono, you might feel sick for about a month.
Occasionally, your spleen or liver may also swell, but mononucleosis is rarely ever fatal.
Mono is hard to distinguish from other common viruses such as the flu.
If your symptoms don't improve after 1 or 2 weeks of home treatment such as resting, getting enough fluids, and eating healthy foods, see your doctor.
A person can get mono more than once but normally people gets mono only once.
It's rare that a person gets infected with mono more than once but it can and does sometimes happen.
Most of the time, a person will have mononucleosis once.
However, it is possible to experience mono twice.
Since the body develops immunity to the virus after contracting the infection, most people do not experience mono twice.
However, in some cases, symptoms can reoccur months after acquiring the initial infection.
In some cases Mono can be a lifelong disease although some people do get over the Mono eventually.
Mono is a pretty serious disease and sometimes can be lifelong while other times the Mono can be cured but it all depends on how far the Mono has progressed before treated.
When you have Mono you may have fatigue for a few weeks after the illness was treated or has gone away and sometimes the fatigue may continue for 6 months to a year.
Dying from Mono is also possible but very rarely does Mono become life threatening or cause death in the person who has Mono.
Death from Mono usually happens because of other complications such as a ruptured spleen so if you have a ruptured spleen it needs surgery right away before it gets too bad and cause death.
If you leave Mono untreated it can lead to inflammation of the liver and development of hepatitis.
So you need to get treated for the Mono if you do have it because it can become very serious.
If you have a ruptured spleen you'll have sharp pain in the abdomen which then needs immediate surgery to fix.