How to handle bad mono?

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I had a very high fever (near 103 most of the time) for a week straight, got tested and was found to have mono with hepatitis and an enlarged spleen as complications. I’m going on my third week of being so exhausted I can barely leave bed, but my fever has been gone for over a week. I know my spleen is still swollen from the pain sometimes.

I’ve missed two weeks of school, been sick for three. Technically I’m not that far behind yet, but I feel bad missing so much school. Also, the absences will show up more in my exam scores than anything. My professors have been very understanding…so far. Do I just go back and tough it out? Or try to rest it out before returning? I have a history of bad illness; I almost took a sick leave from a series a bad infections this time last year. I’m so exhausted that I can’t even focus on my homework, I doubt I’ll focus well/be awake and attentive in class. I’m just getting to the point where I might have to take an incomplete for a class which was totally a gpa booster until now…thoughts?

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I had mono about a year ago and the best thing you can do is be careful honestly. My doctor told me to take it easy until I felt almost 100% because often, students will attempt to “bounce back” before they’re entirely better. This choice can later lead to an incomplete recovery and, to put it simply, you’ll continuously feel like cr@p

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If your grades are going to nosedive, take the medical withdrawal.

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Talk to the Dean of Students so they can coordinate with your professors. Do that ASAP no matter what you end up doing.

Depending on where you are in the semester and how you feel, you can

  1. Do nothing but eat, sleep, go to class and do homework
  2. Take incompletes in some classes and finish others
  3. Take a medical withdrawal (check on financial implications of this)

When I was in college I got pneumonia…i continued going to classes and took an incomplete (really just having to take the final) in a couple of courses.The next semester I came back and took the finals.