Alice apologizes for not getting back to you sooner. Alice hopes that, in the meantime, you have returned to John Jay and seen another practitioner. There are quite a few unknowns surrounding viral infections, particularly the ones that cause fatigue. This could aid in an accurate clinical diagnosis. Symptoms include severe sore throat with a painful swelling of lymph nodes in the neck, lethargy, and a fever.
Antibiotics have no effect on the disease, which is usually self-limited.
You need to ask a health service practitioner about the testing process, and its reliability. Another disease often associated with mono, but, in actuality, there is no proven evidence of a medical relationship, is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The cause of chronic disease syndrome is unknown, but often thought to be emotional, caused by depression and anxiety. One of the problems with diagnosing chronic fatigue is that all these symptoms can be attributed to other illnesses. Or, you can try finding the book, A Disease of a Thousand Names , by David Bell, published by Pollard Publications, P.O. Box 181, Lyndonville, NY 14098.