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I am NOT a doctor,but from your general fatigue, nausea and headache issues I would see your doctor again absolutely. It sounds like you’re not really fully recovered and it has been longer than 10 days, I would really go back and see your doctor.

It is very rare, but brain swelling can be a complication of the EBV,

Mono can leave you weakened for months.

I went through a weird nauseas time for 4–6 weeks when I was in my late teens where when I ate I became intensely nauseas, felt light headed. It was never determined what the hell it was.

Light headed and nauseas can also be related to blood pressure either low or high.

Lots of possibilities, if it keeps up get checked by a doctor. You can check your blood pressure at home and see if it is consistantly low or high. If it is either the doctor should run a thyroid test and some other blood tests to make sure they are normal. Even if you don’t have blood pressure irregularities I would go back to the doctor if it keeps up. Let him check your liver, stuff like that. Your urine isn’t dark is it?

@JLeslie I first thought blood pressure and liver enzymes or anaemia are more likely than brain swelling, but she still needs to go back to her doctor.

@this_velvet_glove It can take longer than a few months to recover from mono. I got over the acute symptoms in a week, but the rest of it took months. Your symptoms sound like what I put up with. If you can check your blood pressure or have it checked do that. But as everyone else said, call your doctor.

It takes many people about a year to fully recover from Mono so a few months is nothing.

But check with your DR.

@cazzie A close friend of mine had hepatitis secondary to mono.

@JLeslie Because the spleen is so affected by the EBV, there are issues with red blood cells and iron as well as blood cell production, perhaps. It is something that really needs to checked on if serious symptoms persist after 10 days. My guess is that it is still swollen.

@this_velvet_glove this may sound a bit gross, but what colour are your stools? If they are light in colour, like a pale, grey or , yellow, it could be an indication that your liver isn’t back up to its normal function and perhaps your system is lacking iron. Your spleen helps recycle iron as well as filter red blood cells, and it has just been seriously messed about by this virus, so you need to pay it some special attention. It is a very taken for granted organ. It is sort of like a poorly paid housekeeper. As long as it is happy and content, it will work away, doing its thing and no one barely notices what it does, but if it decides to leave garbage in the hallway to smell up the house or if it starts smoking in your bedroom, it is time to sit it down for a stern chat and examination or get rid of it.
Here: http://www.laparoscopic.md/digestion/spleen

@cazzie I said the same. If it persists the OP should go back to the doctor.

um.. first of all, the colors are all normal, they didn’t change at all while I was sick.
Also, to go back to the doctor I’ll have to tell my parents, and that’s something I don’t wanna do yet..

huh? I don’t understand. You don’t want to tell your parents that you still feel really crappy and you need to go back to the doctor?

In that case, eat better quality food when you do eat. Try ginger for the nausea. Make sure you get good quality iron intake. Avoid really fatty food that makes your gall bladder and liver work hard. No diet products or very few (if you are consuming too much, the artificial sugar acts as a diuretic, meaning it makes you poop faster and it cheats your body of absorbing the good stuff from what you eat and it just isn’t good for you anyway.) Cook up yourself a good bowl of the old fashioned oatmeal in the morning.

@this_velvet_glove Why don’t you want to tell your parents? Are they going to harm you?

@JLeslie No, they’re not going to harm me, but they’re so overprotective that it’ll get worse, whatever it is.—They will harm me, kind of. While trying to help me,—of course..——
When I had mono, my parents and my grandmother (especially my grandmother) were all so scared and freaked out and all that made me feel worse, like I was going to get worse and die or something. So I guess I’ll wait for a couple of weeks, I’m already better…

Also, I’ve had that dizzy/not being able to see for a few seconds/wanting to throw up kind of thing since I was little, could this be that thing again, without the “not being able to see” part? And much more nausea?

@this_velvet_glove Is it dizzy, like room spinning or upside down? Or, is it light headed, head rush, could pass out? Dizzy and light headed are two different things (although they can happen at the same time) and are caused by different things.

The nausea, headaches, dizziness not being able to see reminds me of when my electrolytes are really out of balance. Try pedialyte.

But I can’t impress on you how much you should go see a doctor. Your health is more important then being fussed over or upsetting people or strains on budget.

The concerns you mention are very serious. Please don’t put it off. Pay attention to tea colored urine, yellowing of the eyes easy bruising and make note of it.

Your spleen is probably enlarged so don’t do any sort of heavy contact sports.

If you are having symptoms of anemia you could try black strap molasses (iron) and a lot vegies with b vitamins in them.

But really, really just go see a doctor.

@JLeslie Room spinning, mostly.

@rosehips I’ve noticed that I bruise too easily.. I mean lately, not always.

@this_velvet_glove Can you trigger the spin when you are lying down and you turn your head towards the side? Maybe it happens when you get up in the morning if you tend to face side ways and put your feet on the ground to stand up facing away from the bed. So as you stand your head is facing the wall to the side of your bed. Rather than sitting up straight in bed looking forward and then bringing your feet over to the floor? I hope that made sense. If that is the case, then most likely your dizziness is position. It can be corrected with a maneuver, or ver time it will correct itself, but also has a decent chance it will reoccur now and then. An ENT doctor can do the Epley Maneuver if it is indeed positional. You can do it yourself, but having it done once to you with your mom there to see how it is done is the best thing, becuase they can help you did it at home when they dizzy happens.

However, if the dizzy happens when you are already in a position, not moving, already standing straight up, already sitting, already lying down, and you are not shifting or moving your head left or right, but all of a sudden you just feel dizzy, that is something else.

@JLeslie Well, it did make sense! It always happens while moving..

See an ENT who specializes in dizzy. Here is the epley maneuver, but one thing wrong with the video is it does not explain when you first sit back with your head turned you cause the dizzy and you should stare at the face of the person helping you until their face stops spinning. They will see your eye moving involuntarily while you are dizzy. You can do it at home at the end of a bed so your head can be off the bed and hang slightly below the rest of your body. If it doesn’t work, no harm done, if it does you can help fix the problem if it is actually position vertigo. Still, I think it would be best to have a doctor show you to help you understand how to do it. But, again, no harm in trying, you are just lying back and looking a few different ways and rolling over.

The deal is there are small crystals/particles in the ear and they control knowing where gravity is and your position in general in the world. When they get knocked around and misplaced gravity stops being down and so your mind spins trying to position you correctly. You can have it on just one side or both. You can also have it in varying degrees depending on which particles are misplaced. The epley maneuver helps them go back to the right spot.