Anyone had both at the same time and any ideas on how do I get over it fast. I have been really dead on runs, can't run race pace, been super cold and have had a sore throat. So went to Dr. and he took a complete blood count w/ ferritan and a Mono test. Mono came back positive and Ferritin was 12, Hemoglobin was 12 and Hemocrit was 35...
Any ideas...I just want to get over this in time for Conference and Regionals
Thanks
Mono often causes anemia. Something happens to the red blood cells within the inflamed spleen.
I had mono at the very beginning of XC one year and I tried to make it back for conference and it did not work out. In fact, it ruined my whole year.
Mono is very difficult to come back from. You'll have to stop exercising for at least two weeks and even when you can run again you're body's still too weak to take much stress. My advice is to write off the season and take your time preparing for track.
Yep, sorryI run through EVERYTHINGi hadn't taken a day off in years but i could not fight monoit is one where you simply have to let it run it's coursei ended up not running for 5 weeks... i had no choice if i wanted to get betteronce you are better it will be great so enjoy the time in bed as much as possible
LilyFair wrote:
Mono often causes anemia. Something happens to the red blood cells within the inflamed spleen.
I had mono at the very beginning of XC one year and I tried to make it back for conference and it did not work out. In fact, it ruined my whole year.
Mono is very difficult to come back from. You'll have to stop exercising for at least two weeks and even when you can run again you're body's still too weak to take much stress. My advice is to write off the season and take your time preparing for track.
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Yeah, sorry to break it to you, but mono takes awhile to come back from. When I had this about 5 years back, I had to take 3 weeks off completely in order to recover well, and then I had to come back slowly, taking about another 5 weeks to get back to my previous training. I know it's frustrating, but take the time off now--I've heard of people who've messed themselves up for a year because they'd tried to run through it, not listening to their bodies. Better to be out ~1 month and make a full recovery than to ruin your body for a year. Just rest as much as your body calls for, hang in there, this is not permanent.
I got mono halfway through the cross country season senior and didn't find out I had it until near Christmas time. Needless to say I had an explanation for a frustrating season. I'd sleep 2-3 hours a day after coming home from school and practice. I took off 5 weeks completely, during which I never took a nap, but I don't think my health ever completely recovered enough to be consistently healthy.
Damn I thought I was the only person that ever had to deal with this. This year, the second week of June, I was diagnosed with both. My doctor was cool as hell and was very open-minded as far as "treating" the diseases went.
What do I mean by that? Well, he prescribed enough sleeping pills so that I'd sleep 16 hours a day for 5 weeks, and I went in for a vitamin IV thrice weekly during that time.
I took about 10 days away from running altogether out of prudence. Then, I resumed my mileage exactly where I left off, except I basically jogged every day.
Everything worked out fine. However, my schedule was as follows. Take sleeping pill, sleep 8 hours, wake up, pound a coffee, run, take next sleeping pill, sleep 8 hours, wake up, eat, take sleeping pill, sleep 8 hours, pound sleeping pill, run; continue this damn cycle for over a month.
It wasn't much of a life, but it was okay. Thankfully I'm still a student and my boss at my internship understood the fact that I had to be away for quite awhile.
Hope that helps. PS......get the biggest, most potent sleeping pills you can find man. Sleeping pills provide forced, necessary recovery.