[cloudquelle]

When I was around 12 or 13, I had the Epstein-Barr virus.

For a couple of *months* I couldn’t: - Walk straight. Always looked like I was completely drunk - Speak normally. Each word I spoke was only half-finished and I had to constantly re-pronounce any words again and again - Write on paper. I just couldn’t write a single sentence, it just didn’t work. I had practically lost the “precision ” of any movements

Not to mention the constant headache and pain in the throat.

I am wondering why it lasted that long and if it had left any sort of permanent effects.

[r2_pilot]

Unfortunately it has not gotten the attention it deserves from the medical community. Their consensus is that you only get it once(generally). I've had 3 documented cases, the last in 2019, and that one put me out of commission for basically an entire month. I'm hopeful that future medicine eliminates this disease entirely.

[zhivota]

I had it at 16, and like you I was down for a month. Barely could do anything - I don't recall bad mental effects but physically I was zero energy for a long time. I feel like my constitution never really recovered. Even today I get bouts of illness unlike anyone else my age or in my family, and I'm otherwise a very healthy person (healthy weight, work out regularly, etc.).

I never really thought about it until the long COVID discussions and learning more about things like this, but it really is something people barely understand today.