why are some of you so dumb?

And if you don't have autoimmune diseases and used those words to dramatize your situation, or you don't know what those words mean... there is an invention called Google. I suggest you look up 'autoimmune diseases' in dictionaries and won't use it lightly ever again. 

Why would someone with mono take immunosuppressive drugs? A good immune system is necessary in order to fight the virus. Taking those kind of drugs would be detrimental.

Most people on here suggest vitamins because many of us have had lack of appetite (our intake of vitamins decreases because of that.) Without an adequate intake of vitamins the body does not work as it should.

And whoever this Selena Gomez person is, I feel sorry for her, but if she has a lot of money I bet she has the best medical advice she can get. If her kidney started to fail maybe it was because of her disease. A lot of immune diseases attack different organs. If you don't have all the information you can't tell us that her kidney was damaged because of the drugs she was taking.

Most people on here are not doctors, so you should expect the "rest and take vitamins" advice. If someone is feeling very ill, they tell them to go see a dr. No one is prescribing drugs on this forum as far as I know.

Anyway, I fail to see how immunosuppressive drugs and Selena Gomez have anything to do with glandular fever. 

I think I am the poster your referring to.

First I havnt been diagnosed with anything yet. I'm in the very early stages of being tested due to my symptoms and I have not been told to take any sort of medication right now.

My question was can mono cause symptoms similar to auto immune diseases and not be an actual auto immune disease?

I was looking for reassurance that my symptoms of mono are normal and not something else scary and chronic.

Of course I'm still working very closely with my doctor and doing all the recommended tests.

In the meantime I have done an elimination diet (recommended by my doctor) for IBS and started taking supplements (again recommended by my doctor) which do seem to be helping me.

I currently feel a lot better than I did 3months ago and I don't think it's dumb or crazy to suggest taking vitamin C as it obviously helped Craig with many of his mono symptoms and I did ask for suggestions or advice.

And do you know those drugs you are talking about have severe side effects including deep vein thrombosis and pulomonary embolisms which are life threatening.

Many people choose to try a more natural type of treatment before taking those drugs. A friend of mine took those drugs. He's 28, he first went grey, then lost all his hair, developed sores all over his body and a rash, was told he may be infertile while they were trying to conceive their second child and his auto immune disease is still flaring viciously. The treatment and all it's side affects has not worked.

Those drugs also put people at higher risk for developing cancer so it's not something most people take lightly or do without first doing their research or asking for a second opinion.

Selena Gomez is very young. I'm not surprised she was scared to take that medication. A long term chronic condition with life long severe meds is scary. Most people need time to come to terms with that

WOW!

i love this forum for support and great advice and just to share with people the same feelings and anxieties we are all going through having mono/gf.

I am on the up and really getting better. It's been a while. Nearly 12 months to be exact. Good food, vitamins, drinking plenty and lots and lots of rest.

i hope you feel better soon!

 

Hi Gee,

My advice would only be to take these kind of drugs if the doctor advises you....I don't want people being scaremongered and thinking that people who have glandular fever or mono should be jumping onto these kind of drugs - that is not the case for the vast vast majority of people. If there are complications and other factors involved, let the doctor run tests and advise on treatment.

Thinking of everyone today and hang in there. Great to hear things are going in the right direction Caroline!

Craig

If your not going to be supportive and just say nasty or rude comments then you don’t have to be here!! Like Craig said people are here to support one another and share their experience and I don’t think anyone had claimed to be a dr, nor share a magical resolution!’ So like my momma says if

You don’t have anything nice to say or be supportive then shut it!!!!!!!!!