Re: ***QUESTION***

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I had Mono when I was 24 but I don't think its from that.... Had too many symptoms before that

But I think I get sicker more often not a very good inumne system

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-- ***QUESTION***

Just curious to know if any of you had mono (as a teenager or later

in life) prior to eventually developing your FM or CFS? I've had

several doctors tell me over the years that they think there is a

link there - maybe like chicken pox can surface in older adults as

shingles?

Thanks,

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I did test positive for inactive mono about a year after my middle

son devloped a potentially life-threatening condition called Henoch-

Schoenlein Purpura (which I had diagnosed being a former Peds ICU

nurse prior to taking Trey to the pediatrician). I asked her to run a

mono test, which she refused, as this can bring on Henoch-Schoenlein

Purpura. To make a long story short, a year later in 1999 (after

changing pediatricians (Dr. *itch and I just could not work together

re: my kids), Trey and I both tested positive for inactive Epstein-

Barr. So I have had it, but don't know when. I did not start

developing significant problems until this year when I was first

diagnosed with autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimotos). My PCP says I

have FMS too. I see a rheumatologist for the first time next week,

though, so I don't have a definitive diagnosis yet.

I don't know what the latest research is showing, but may people with

autoimmune diseases have had mono at some time in their life.

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> Just curious to know if any of you had mono (as a teenager or later

> in life) prior to eventually developing your FM or CFS? I've had

> several doctors tell me over the years that they think there is a

> link there - maybe like chicken pox can surface in older adults as

> shingles?

>

> Thanks,

>

[Guest guest]

Wow. You may be onto something there. I had Mono when I was in 6th grade. A few months after I had the Prednisone that I feel induced my fibro.

Just curious to know if any of you had mono (as a teenager or later in life) prior to eventually developing your FM or CFS?

[Guest guest]

Boy that is strange, I had strep throat three times in a row and my doctor said that was impossiable. My daugther as a child had chicken pox twice which they told me then was impossiable I need to add up all the stuff that is going on, cause the more I read here in this room the more sure I am. Debi Y. Horne wrote:

Wow. You may be onto something there. I had Mono when I was in 6th grade. A few months after I had the Prednisone that I feel induced my fibro.

Just curious to know if any of you had mono (as a teenager or later in life) prior to eventually developing your FM or CFS?

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