Spleen Problems.

I guess nobody knows, you guys never afflicted spleen probs while having mono?

Hi, how are you doing now? Are your symptoms subsiding or gone? I would like to hear about your mono since I know nothing about it and my son now has it. He was just diagnosed today, but has been very sick for 3 days. I have been reading up on mono and see that an enlarged spleen can be a main symptom of it. What I am wondering is, how long were you sick and what all were your symptoms. My son has had a severely sore throat for 4 days, very swollen glands, and can't eat much because of his horribly swollen tonsils, but apparently was just getting it weeks ago when he was ill then too with a low grade fever, a cough etc., which went away, then this came on full force.. I am a bit worried because he has never been so sick in his life and he looks very sick now. I take him back to the doctor on monday. I hope you are better. Please respond if you have any information for me. Thankyou

Hello. My 16 year old contracted mono about 4 weeks ago...She first had a staph infection and then toxic shock syndrom and she was hospitalized for about 4 days..Then while recovering from that she contracted mono. (she ended up in the hospital again) she is still very, very ill. She has had so many tests done on her. We have been told that we should watch for spleen problems. She is still very tired, headache, and severe abdomonal pain. She has blood in her stool/urine daily and the doctors are baffled as to why...She is having a colonoscopy on monday. She has had 2 ct scans and blood tests for everything...Any ideas??

It all started somewhere in the 3-4th week of july. I started having annoying pressure on my spleen, about 3 weeks later, I developed a sore throat, chills, fever rise only when I had those chills, very very little muscle aches, abdominal pain & mild diarrhea and fatigue. Everything is gone now and my spleen is good now too but it was never enlarged just reacted to the virus. In the past 4-5 weeks or so I developed abdominal probs and my spleen got even worse, the doc said it looks like it's at the urge of going away well he was right, spleen is almost completely good and I still have minor abdominal probs and that's all. Hope your kids will get better. Some get it bad, while others don't get it too bad like me while others don't feel anything. Everyone is different, but you should know that your kids will feel better soon and this may take months! But may take like a 1/2 year for them to be completely normal, and let them rest since relapses may occur even though they are uncommon. But I never rested and that's my prob I think. But hey, I survived. But again, good luck to your kids. As for the parent with the 16 year old....What you describe....It sounds that she is having other probs! Caz not even in the severe cases of mono I highly doubt there is blood in the urine and stool!

Hi again, how do you know when your child should be hospitalized? I have faith in the doctors only sometimes. I was not told what to watch for. Last night, my son suddenly had stomach pain, then it went away. I don't know of anything to keep an eye out for except severe pain upper left abdomen because of the spleen, and this I read on the internet. I am so worried about him. He was just at the doctors yesterday, his white count or whatever it is that is the mono was about 72, and I was told normal was about 40? Does anybody here know what I can watch for and when to be even more concerned than I am now? I take him back to the doctor on monday. Thankyou

If it's just mono, don't worry and hospitalizations for mono are very rare unless the spleen ruptures which is like a 1:1000 thing, it's really rare. There's nothing you can do except rest and it will go away on its own. But I think it's bull that it's said all symptoms except fatigue resolve in about 4-6 weeks! For me the fatigue resolved in about 4 weeks or so but my spleen just recovered maybe like a week ago after about 2 1/2 months! It may take months to be completely good. So relax and everything will be fine. Btw, when your son had stomach pain, was it on the upper or lower region and did he happen to have diarrhea too?