Did anyone experience night sweats/back pain with mono?

Hi Madison, yes to both. Night sweats is pretty much what everyone suffers from at some point, they tend to go away or become less frequent. I don't have them anymore, but when I have a bad relapse I tend to get them. The aches in your body...well I can't really think of a place it has not impacted. My neck and legs have probably suffered the worse, but i have suffered with mild discomfort in my back. Easier said than done, but try to stay away from doctor Google. The only way to determine other conditions is to have it come out from tests with your doctor, but what you are describing is very normal with glandular fever.

no ! one of the main symptoms is night sweats ! please dont worry ... its very very common and yes theres are kinds of weird symptoms ... for instance my teeth are soooooo sensitive . this virus attacks your nerve endings so everything hurts .

Hi Madison,

This is all very common with mono, My daughter had night sweats a lot and the achy back is terrible, this is very common with mono, It makes you feel so terrible that it makes you think it must be something more, but it is just the way this terrible virus runs its course, I hope it leaves you soon.

Madison,

I had night sweats, too. They weren't every night, but I've had them at least a dozen times in the 5 months I've been dealing with this virus. I still get them when I have a relapse.

Try not to stress, it makes this thing worse.

Hi Madison,

I hope you are feeling a little more settled today, just wanted to let you know still thinking about you and believing you are going to get well again and get through this. These night sweats can be common through this virus, it's not easy to stop your mind running all over the place but please be assured that this virus makes you feel awful and can be so bad and go on for such a period it convinces you something else is going on, when actual fact it is just the mono caused by the virus.

You are going to get through this and get well again - I truly believe that trusting God and praying for Jesus' healing for you.

Craig

Hey Madison. I see this thread is a little older so I hope you're doing better now. Mono gave me really bad night sweats, oddly they started farther into my illness like around the 4 week mark. Night sweats are a huge anxiety trigger for me. I'm 34 ans when I was 19 I was having panic attacks in my sleep and didnt know that was why I was waking up drenched in sweat. Around that time webmd was a newish thing and I of course looked it up and everything said HIV. I convinced myself I must have it bc NOTHING comes up in searching night sweats still to this day, except horrible illnesses. 2 weeks ago when this started, I lost it. I've been on an anxiety high like never before. Convinced myself I have lymphoma. I have barely been able to function the last 2 weeks bc of the anxiety, I've poked and prodded my body so much that I have bruises right now and puffy lymph nodes from irritating them they werent even swollen to begin with and I've lost almost 10lbs bc I feel sick to my stomach when I'm anxious!! I had the classic mono onset symptoms and a positive monospot test around the 5 weeks mark of the illness but my titers in the blood work were a little funky, not totally typical mono results, so that set me off too. After much research I've learned the titer testing can have so many different results depending where in the course of the illness you are, and many medical professionals dont even like doing it bc of the varying results people get. My early acute titer was negative bc I was past the 2 to 4 week mark. The titer that implies past or recent infection was positive but the one that implies you have entered recovery phase was still negative. My doc explained that I could be suffering from a reactivated mono or I just wasnt enough into the recovery phase yet for the other titer to be positive and I read that 10 to 20% of people actually never get the antibodies that raise the recovery titer. I always tell people dont Google its evil but it helped me understand my test results! Liver and spleen blood and cbc were normal so he said I luckily had a milder case, my biggest symptom was a relentless 5 week sore throat and I tested positive for strep at the 4 week mark after 2 negative strep tests around the 2nd and 3rd week. So my throat took the brunt of this virus. I was so mad an er doctor kept saying "wow your throat looks very viral!" But didnt think to do a mono test after I told him my throat hurt like I was swallowing knives for 4 weeks! I think my age made doctors think I couldnt have mono but I've never been exposed to it, no one I have ever known has had it and been around me. My immune system was already in the crapper bc I had hand foot mouth disease in October which does a number on your immune system. Since then I have gotten every illness that has come near me! I always thought oh mono you get really tired for a few weeks and then you're fine. Holy cow no, I am realizing how encompassing this virus is and the typical descriptions of it on Google searches are so vague and general and not really even close to describing what really happens! I found this forum bc I was like omg I need to see if other people felt how I have been or if theres something else wrong with me! Yeah turns out everyone on forums have very different experiences than the basic symptoms outlined on google! Anyways I hope you see this being that it's an older post and I hope you're doing well!!