Getting disheartened .... does this thing get worse before it gets better ? Is this post viral ?
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the last 2 months have been awful for me the first 5 months i had some bad days but overrall kept working out and just felt tired. now at month 7 im feeling so much worse ? i just dont get it ?
i had my blood work done again as thought it may give me some hope if the levels had dropped but unfortunately they are about the same .
id be interested to hear from you guys and if youve gone through anything similar .... feeling really low and fed up.
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Dodge81 lori93950
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month 6 and 7 have been quite difficult for me, especially as I felt like I was getting better beforehand. The last week or so I've started to feel a bit better where the dizziness has worn off, but still feel unwell. I'm not sure what is happening, can only think the body is still fighting the virus. Most people say the recovery is in a zig zag pattern where each set back is likely to be less severe but in no way is it constant. Just need to keep your head up and believe one day it will be all over. I know it's difficult.
craig07920 lori93950
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Hi Lori,
Just want to reassure that the kind of up and down experience is very typical of mono, and in no way does it mean that things won't get better - they will it's just the strange and unorthodox way this virus seems to go. There is no rhyme or reason to how recovery goes with this, often you can feel better one week or month and then the next feel like you've gone backwards again - even though it feels that way it doesn't mean to say that your body isn't making progress. When you feel bad, remember in a strange and warped way it's a good thing in that it means something is happening and your body is working somehow to get on top of another element of this virus - part of the wider recovery process. And every day is a day away from the day of infection and towards recovery. It's SOO hard not to get discouraged with this thing Lori, I know that for sure - but I absolutely want you to know that THIS DOES GET BETTER. At the stage you're at now, about 7 months, I was still tearing my hair out and by 9 months I felt out of my feet just struggling for hope. But there after 10 months something seemed to change and things started to get better Lori, and although it took a little while of rebuilding the thing was no longer able to harm me any more thanks to God's help and protection.
Another strange but common thing with this virus - something I started to experience too around that 10 month mark - was that this virus can feel like it sticks or stagnates at the same kind of difficult level for such a long time, and then all of a sudden jump a big step forward towards recovery in a short space of time - so just as things can seem to go backwards sometimes suddenly, remember it is equally normal and possible that it jumps forward a big phase too in terms of recovery.
Hang in there Lori and still believing the worst days of this thing are passing and going to be distant memory soon to be replaced with days of hope, recovery, good health and peace.
Craig