Vivid Halucinations (and Other Things) With Mononucelosis Posted: 01-26-06 07:39am
To begin with, I have mono (as if you
couldn't tell that already). I had to
drop out of my school and become home
schooled on oct 21st and have barely left
the house since. I was rushed to the
emergency room on oct 14 from school with
what appeared to be appendicitis and was
later told that, despite the sharp pain in
my right side, that could not be it. I
was unable to attend school the rest of
the week and tried to go back one more
day, the 21st, but was unable to make it
past 9:30 am. Since then I have
developed an enlarged spleen (2x normal
size as of last week) and inflamed liver,
I practically have no immune system and
have had the flu 3 times and more chest
colds than I care to remember, among the
other normal symptoms of mono. I would
not be here if I wasn't scared for my own
sanity. For the last month or so, I have
had such vivid hallucinations that I have
either not been able to sleep, and when I
do manage to get to sleep, I have such
vivid dreams that I wake up or don't ever
get rested, even if I did sleep 18 hours.
It always seems to be the same thing for
a little while then it changes. For
instance, last week I was seeing bunnies
(laugh and die) pop out of no where. Two
days ago I was seeing faces in windows and
mirrors and just popping out of thin air.
Right now i'm seeing lots and lots of
bees. The worst part is when I think my
mom is in the room with me and I don't
realize she's not until I ask here why
she's not responding to a question and try
to touch her arm or shoulder and then
she's not there. Same thing with our
pets and the rest of my family members,
they're there and then they're not. Yet
another problem that seems to only have
developed in earnest a few days to a week
ago is random pain shooting through my
body via my nervous system. If you have
ever had someone who was taking your blood
and they hit a nerve, that's what it feels
like, but all over your body at once and
tenfold. Our doctor is at a loss, she
knows that it's connected to mono, she
just doesn't know what to do or how to
treat it. I am so tired of just hearing
that I should sleep and get lots of rest
and then do school work, because I can't
do it due to severe paranoia. Grr.
Bravo to you if you have gotten to this
point of my lengthy story, but if you
happen to know that this happens to people
with mono often or if you know some way to
help me out with really any part of it,
please, do tell! Thanks! :d
