About 2 weeks ago I came down with a terribly sore throat and my tonsils looked as if they had white mold covering them. I figured it was strep so I went to a convenient care facility where they tested for both the flu and strep, both negative. The symptoms I was having were chills, body aches, sore throat, low grade fever, and night sweats. The doc there gave me arithmycin 5 day pack which I started and by day two was throwing up constantly. After the third day wasn't showing much improvement I went to my family care physician and showed him my throat which had progressively gotten worse. He seemed quite shocked at it, tested me again for strep and the flu, both negative, and then did a blood work up for Mono and Epstein Barr Virus. He also put me on Ceftin which within 1 day of taking was reversing the effects on my tonsils and the vomiting stopped when I stopped taking the arithmycin. Well today I got the results to my lab back. They were confusing and I was hoping someone could shed some light on me. He said he did two types of mono test. He said the first was negative, the one where it detects the beginning stage of the disease. What he said confused him was that the second test (I really dont know if that mean the EBV or something else) was very positive and this was the test that shows positive when the disease has ran its course and you are in remission or recovery. He was definitely baffled which is why I probably didnt get a clear cut answer that I could understand. If anyone can make any sense of this and tell me how many test are there and what they stand for, and I guess most importantly how serious this is if I didnt test positive for Mono but I test positive for some other something that supposedly only test positive if you've had it and are at the end stage. Sorry if this is confusing, imagine how I felt when I left. I appreciate any feedback because I would like to know what this means for my family, my child, if I can spread this.