My LO (22 months) was diagnosed with likely hand foot and mouth yesterday at the pediatrician. Although she said she is not 100% sure that's what he has. He had 3 days of a fever, will hardly eat or drink anything, super cranky, and she said he had very red sores in his throat (I looked when she shone her light in his mouth - his throat looks terrible). We noticed 2 other small sores, one on his temple and one by his lip, so it's not like he has the full fledged rash. This started Sunday - it's now Wednesday.

Anyway, his fever has been gone since yesterday afternoon. I don't see any other sores. My main concern is with his sleep. He has been up the last 4 nights just screaming with multiple wake ups. Last night was AWFUL. I was up basically all night. He became hysterical if I left his sight, wanted to nurse all night, would just catnap laying on me. But no fever and this morning he ate a whole Nutrigrain bar. So, I am assuming the horrible nights are because of the sore throat? Or is he just waking out of habit at this point?

I am paranoid because he was an awfulllll sleeper before we sleep trained at 17 months (like up all night screaming every night) and I am so terrified of getting back to that!