Mono

[RIB2211 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RIB2211]

I have mono. Yayyyyy.

...and what sucks is I didn't get it from kissing a girl, I got it from my roommate who has had it for a month (not by kissing him).

I'm out for the rest of the football season. The doctor also won't put on the prescription steroids that are used to treat mono, saying "I should be just fine with over the counter drugs".

I can't sleep at night; my throat is too sore. I've been gargling with tea tree oil and steaming it up (to breath) and that's helped some. Tylenol PM can't even knock me out at night. I've also got something else along along with the mono but I'm not sure what. Before these mono symptoms appeared, I had a WICKED dry cough...still have it too (so maybe Bronchitis?). I'm going to try and get a prescription for some cough medicine that's got codeine in it. I've already lost about 10 lbs.

Hooray for illness!

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Dude, sorry to hear that. That sucks and flu season is here too!!

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RIB2211,Hey guy,I had bronchitis several years ago and it's not fun. I was in bed for a week. I was a smoker of cigs and weed and the cigs did me in. When I thought I was better and started to smoke a cig ,I thought I'd die from coughing so much. Don't take it lightly,,especially since you do sports.
I quit cigs but not weed. You can't keep a good head down.LOL .I got better also. Breath is good!
With the weight loss, your fat pad is a lot less.Your measurements will go up!! There's always something good to be had.
Get your young self back to health!!

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RIB, sorry to hear man. Best of luck to you. Get well soon!

If you really want to sleep, get some Dramamine... Not sure if that will be bad mixing with other stuff though. That shit knocks me OUT when I fly for long distances.

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Thanks guys, I see the doctor in about an hour. I'm gonna try and get something for this sore throat, cough, and something that's just like a sledgehammer to knock me out at night.

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Got some prescribed steroids for my enlarged tonsils and some cough syrup with codeine.

On a side note, my ex who I still really, really care about comes back into town next week. We got to talking, and she mentioned how this would be the first time she came back and we wouldn't hook up (cause of my mono). She then said that last week, she spent over 100 dollars at victoria's secret for sexier underwear for the trip.

Mono, the ultimate cock block.

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Aw man, that really sucks. Maybe she will give you a hand job, at least that would feel good.

[RIB2211 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RIB2211]

Damn right it would, I feel like I'm the only guy out of my group of friends who would never complain about getting a handjob...I love them.

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Yeah I know, there's no long term repercussions from mono. I think I got it because I share a bathroom with the one roommate (I have three others) who had it for a month...and he's pretty dirty (in the sense that he never cleans and leaves his stuff everywhere). I think that just the constant exposure over and over wore me down, because I know I've been exposed to it before. Throughout high school, I kissed two girls who had mono but never got it...what did me in this time was, like I said, the constant exposure to the virus.

It just sucks because we had four games left in our season, and the doctor told me the earliest possibility I could play would be the last game.

Not to mention said cock block by mono.

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Power the vitamin "C" Rib.