Re: How about Mononucleosis as an Adult?

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CYNTHIA!!! I had what was termed by doctors " growing pains " from age 14!!!! That

is the EXACT TERM they used! They could not figure out what was wrong with me!

*~ Kami ~*

[ ] How about Mononucleosis as an Adult?

I didn't have Mono as a child. I had Mono at 38. Apparently the older

you are the harder Mono will hit you. I think I sleep for two months.

Walking to the bathroom was the most I could do for about 3 months.

Having Mono as an adult is fairly rarely, most people have been exposed

as a child or teen. I don't think that Mono set off my RA, I grew up

having 'growing pains', and before the Mono I was having trouble with

my feet and hands. I also have two parents and a slew of family with

RA or other auto-immune disease, so the genetics are there. I do think

that the Mono may have been a factor in the increase in the activity of

the RA. I was dx'ed with RA two years later.