Originally Posted by teresakoch

Oh, and I had Mono at about the same age as you did (I was 18 when I had it, I'm 52 now), and like you, I never felt like I "got over" it.

Everyone thinks that Mono is highly contagious, but the fact of the matter is that it is only "contagious" to people who are susceptible to it - most of the population has a built-in immunity to it.

The incidence of Mono in the Celiac community is somewhat higher than in the general population. Not sure why, but my guess is a compromised immune system.

Please note that I am not suggesting that you might have CD instead of MG; one doesn't "cause" the other, and you can have both conditions at the same time. While both are chronic conditions, CD is quite easily managed - a GF diet will usually clear up most problems within a year, and those problems will usually remain at bay as long as a GF diet is maintained.

By the time MG is diagnosed, a lot of damage has been done to the body that cannot ever be undone - we use medications to slow the progression of the disease and to ease the effects of the disease.