glandular fever - GCSEs!

Savvy_Sue

Jagraf wrote: »

Thanks all. We will wait and see.

Meanwhile do try to catastrophise less. You're panicking, your DD is panicking, and what good does it do?

marywooyeah

Hi, sorry to hear that your daughter is poorly.

I had tonsiitis eleven times between age 15 and 16 and stopped going to school for quite some time because I was so ill. I eventually developed glandular fever and it really knocked me for six; I barely had any energy and slept a lot, I also gained a lot of weight as I wasn't moving much.

I found it very difficult to catch up on all the work I missed as my school sent a bit of work home at first but then stopped altogether - can you approach the headteacher and arrange for the same work that all the other children are doing to be sent home? Perhaps some one on one tuition with a private tutor who can visit at home?

There are lots of GCSE revision programmes too, when I was at school they were called Bitesize so don't know if they're still going but there will be others.

Hope your daughter gets well soon

KxMx

I got GF a few months before my exams. I ended up having to repeat a year at College re-doing a few GCSE's and Level 2 qualifications (I was at a small school to begin with) to meet the entry requirements to do A Levels.

I hated every minute of it and found the work quite easy, but it was worth it in the end.

Even then it was only the head of A Levels personally agreeing to accept me that got me onto the course. I went onto get 2 full A Levels at grade B so my intelligence wasn't in question!

The main problem which caused me to repeat the year was the school not sending homework, even with a home tutor in place. We had to literally beg and beg just for one sheet of work!

Despite that I did manage to get some good grades, just not enough to go straight onto A Levels. For example I missed some coursework on double science gcse but still got the maximum grade I could get without that element.

Topcat1982

purpleshoes wrote: »

No but my brother had glandular fever when he was 17 and he had to drop out of university for a time and go back, he also had a relapse, just rest and very strong anti biotics, knocked him sideways but only had the one relapse and hes been fine ever since.

Antibiotics for a virus?

When I was 15 doc told me there was no treatment you just had to wait. In those days they called it the kissing disease and my mum told neighbours I had the flu:embarasse

themull1

I had glandular fever at 19 and was so tired i couldnt even dry myself after a bath, i was off work 6 weeks. There was no way i would have been able to take exams. So the fact that she isnt that tired might just be tonsilitis.

purpleshoes_2

Topcat1982 wrote: »

Antibiotics for a virus?

When I was 15 doc told me there was no treatment you just had to wait. In those days they called it the kissing disease and my mum told neighbours I had the flu:embarasse

Yes, very strong antibiotics as I recall.

notanewuser

My sister had GF while doing her GCSEs. She did okay but was in bed if she wasn't actually sitting an exam. She was very poorly - it's a very nasty illness.

Now she's in her 30s and suffers from POTS, which is triggered by the dormant glandular fever. It's had a major impact on her life.

Jagraf

themull1 wrote: »

I had glandular fever at 19 and was so tired i couldnt even dry myself after a bath, i was off work 6 weeks. There was no way i would have been able to take exams. So the fact that she isnt that tired might just be tonsilitis.

It's was just tonsillitis, it is cleared now. X

Pollycat

There you go - all that worrying and stressing for nothing.

Glad it's not GF.