Glandular Fever
Thanks School bike for giving me the most painful illness I have ever experienced.

The worst bit was my throat; on every swallow it feels like you’re trying to swallow Beelzebub’s burning hot acid piss, so after a while I had no choice but to start spitting in a bucket. The thing about this disease is that it lowers your immune system so you constantly have flu symptoms and chronic fatigue to compliment the aching glands in your neck, armpits and groin. It sounds a bit gay but I used to wake up crying in the night because the pain was unbearable. You can get different levels of the illness and mine was the worst case my old school doctor had ever seen. It was unusual for him to look concerned as he had seen all of it before but he wanted to send me into hospital for a drip if the illness didn't clear up within the next two days. He prescribed me steroids which had the un-fortunate side effect of puking :( puking with swollen glands and a throat like a baboons arse has to be one of the single worst experiences of my life.....but after that I felt immediately better and this culminated in me being in the shower and coughing up a solid golf ball size of gunk that was up my nose..Steroids are fucking brilliant.

Length, 6 months off school.

Anyone else had it that bad?



www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/glandularfever.htm
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:29, 19 replies)

I didn't have it as badly
But mine affected me for about 6 months after. If I didn't get a proper nights sleep, missed a meal, or anything like that, I'd be knackered for about 3 days afterwards. I got it, and swiftly after managed to get a rather nasty throat infection. Joy(!)
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:37, closed)

Yeh me the same
The actual nasty bit of the disease only lasted a couple of months, then i had to rest for 4. Excaltly the same as you, any over exertion would suck every bit of energy out of me and that exertion could just be walking for ten minutes. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Did you catch it through kissing or airborne droplets? On a positive note, at least we are immune now, so we can go around kissing any old rotter. (on reflection, not sure that is a good thing);)
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:52, closed)

My girlfriend at the time. Turns out she'd had it previously, but was still carrying it. Grr.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:15, closed)

hehe I bet you never looked at her the same again.
I couldn't look at the rotter i snogged knowing what she had put me through for 6 months, if i did she looked like the girl from the exorcist.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:30, closed)

Revenge Raep

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:50, closed)

haha!

(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:01, closed)

I had it when I was 17, and i remember the searing pain everytime i swallowed, and even worse when i sneezed! (which was bad because i had it in summer when i get hayfever). One thing that helped which i remembered well was lying on my back and eating ice lollies, letting the cool icy juiceness fall down my throat and soothe my stinging throat. I think it lasted a while and it took me some time to feel normal again. Ever since i had it i seem to get an annual sore throat which i wonder is a reactivation of the virus?
(flying-fox, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:54, closed)

Interesting you
say that Flying Fox, I get the same once a year, sore glands and then a harmless cold to follow most of the time. Not sure if this is true but they say once you have had it, you always have it, it just never becomes fully active again.


My way of easing the pain was to drink scolding hot cups of tea, it was the only thing I could swallow without wincing, ice cream was good but the doc advised me to stay away from dairy :(
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:18, closed)

Yeah, the same happens to me.
Mostly past it now, but if I have a heavy weekend of any type it can sometimes come back and fuck my skull for a while.

I like to call it the delayed hangover.
( gone, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:25, closed)

I feel your pain brother

(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:33, closed)

Herpesviridae...
the family the virus belongs to (i'm a geeky virologist) is a sneaky lil critter which likes to hide in the body and awaken from time to time. I learnt in uni that even chicken pox which is also a herpes virus stays dormant and comes out again in your 40s! Not sure about this one but it always seems to come about early October time, and whatever it is it leaves me with a red-raw throat for about 10 days :(

The tea helped too, and then I found this wonderful stuff called diflam which numbed everything in my mouth :D
(flying-fox, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 22:02, closed)

Did you take the opportunity to 'sculpt' your 'guns' whilst on steroids though?

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:42, closed)

Hehe!
No but my cock went really small and i started getting really angry and hairy ;)
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:57, closed)

I suppose it's just lucky you didn't go out on a cop-killing rampage!

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:11, closed)

I felt as though I wanted to
but Gazza came along with some chicken and a few tinny's and talked me out of it like ;)
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 13:04, closed)

Ah, Gazza
The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 23:14, closed)

haha
Is there nothing a beer and some chicken won't sort out? We should send him into Israel to sort out all their problems, with Kosha chicken obviously, next Afghanistan!
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 9:57, closed)

I ended up in hospital on drip for a week when I had it due to my tonsils becoming so engorged that I was unable to swallow anything. This was somewhat distressing. I still get at least one annual bout of tonsilitis type symptoms 17 years later
(ferretygubbins, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 14:14, closed)

I think it's time for them to come out
Save you grief a few times a year. Plus you can keep them in a jar, smugly throwing insults at your nemesis every few days.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 16:37, closed)