Mono Maybe?
So, I am feeling worse. I only got up to take my psych test today. I feel okay in the mornings, but the afternoons get me. So I came back after the test and slept....and slept. I didn't go to the rest of my classes. I don't plan on going to class for the rest of the week. I'm not sure if I should email my professors or not, at least my art profs. I really can't get any work done. The only reason I'm on the computer is because I had to get up to pee, but if I don't have to pee, I don't bother getting up....I don't even want to get up to get food. Since yesterday, what I'm assuming are my lymph node glands have all swollen up. They are very lumpy on the right side of my neck and I can feel a few on the left side. I never really knew what lymph nodes were other than things that swelled when you were sick. Actually, I thought you only have two of them. I looked them up today (because there are seriously several of them bulging out of the side of my neck) and found that we have many of them in our necks, and many other nodes throughout our bodies. That would also explain the lump in my right armpit as well.
I went to the health center yesterday, and as usual, the stupid dr. barely even looked at me. I much prefer the nurse practitioner to the actual doctor. All he did was plop down on his stool and shined a light down my throat...he didn't even get off his ass to look. He asked me if I smoked, and I said, "I have been quitting..." and he automatically said, "Oh, it's probably because of that." and then I started to say, "Well, i haven't smoked in a month, it can't...." and he proceded to interrupt me and say, " Cigarettes can cause sore throats and people say, 'my, my throat is red, i must be sick' but we'll take a culture sample to see if it's anything we can treat. We wouldn't want to be throwing pills at you." Says the guy who just gave me xanax because I asked for it. Says the guy who gave my roommate last year prozac without even talking to her, actually, she said he walked in with the prescription already filled out and she hadn't even seen anyone in counseling yet. I said, "But my neck is swollen...." "Oh, I'm sure it is..." he replied. Smoker's sore throat?!?! Are you fucking with me?!?! I've had smoker's sore throat before, mind you, bastard. It lasts for a fucking DAY. Do cigarettes give you fever, swollen glands, aches too? Bullshit, dude. He didn't even look at my neck, didn't touch it, didn't do that belly feeling thing either, which is what he should have done. I didn't realize it till this morning when my mom said, "When they do the culture sample, will they be checking for mono too?" then i was like....oh shit. OH Shit....Yes, every symptom coincides with mono and whatever I have is very very very NOT strep...not strep like I've had it before anyway.
So mom had me call the health center and ask if the culture sample would also be used for mono testing. The nurse talked to me and said that it would not, but if it came back negative and I was still having symptoms for over a week, that they would test for mono. So...there you go. And alert to you reading roommates...I will try to steer clear. Sorry I haven't done my dishes or taken out the trash. It first started out as putting it off, then I started feeling crappy and was going to wait till I felt better, and now I don't feel like getting up. I'll do it when I'm feeling better soon. Hopefully.
I went to the health center yesterday, and as usual, the stupid dr. barely even looked at me. I much prefer the nurse practitioner to the actual doctor. All he did was plop down on his stool and shined a light down my throat...he didn't even get off his ass to look. He asked me if I smoked, and I said, "I have been quitting..." and he automatically said, "Oh, it's probably because of that." and then I started to say, "Well, i haven't smoked in a month, it can't...." and he proceded to interrupt me and say, " Cigarettes can cause sore throats and people say, 'my, my throat is red, i must be sick' but we'll take a culture sample to see if it's anything we can treat. We wouldn't want to be throwing pills at you." Says the guy who just gave me xanax because I asked for it. Says the guy who gave my roommate last year prozac without even talking to her, actually, she said he walked in with the prescription already filled out and she hadn't even seen anyone in counseling yet. I said, "But my neck is swollen...." "Oh, I'm sure it is..." he replied. Smoker's sore throat?!?! Are you fucking with me?!?! I've had smoker's sore throat before, mind you, bastard. It lasts for a fucking DAY. Do cigarettes give you fever, swollen glands, aches too? Bullshit, dude. He didn't even look at my neck, didn't touch it, didn't do that belly feeling thing either, which is what he should have done. I didn't realize it till this morning when my mom said, "When they do the culture sample, will they be checking for mono too?" then i was like....oh shit. OH Shit....Yes, every symptom coincides with mono and whatever I have is very very very NOT strep...not strep like I've had it before anyway.
So mom had me call the health center and ask if the culture sample would also be used for mono testing. The nurse talked to me and said that it would not, but if it came back negative and I was still having symptoms for over a week, that they would test for mono. So...there you go. And alert to you reading roommates...I will try to steer clear. Sorry I haven't done my dishes or taken out the trash. It first started out as putting it off, then I started feeling crappy and was going to wait till I felt better, and now I don't feel like getting up. I'll do it when I'm feeling better soon. Hopefully.