Meningitus 2023

[Rossibob1]

I keep seeing on here a lot of people in there 30s getting VM and think how?

Why did we get it?

Why is there so many around that period of time?

Also I’d like to say how thankful I was to find this forum as 6 months ago I was a wreck and needed to see if what I was feeling was normal.

Thanks

[Jonad724]

I was 39 when I contracted VM and came within 10 minutes of having my relatives called in to say goodbye followed by a further emergency admission when I was, as my neurologist called it' checking out of hotel life'. The reason I contracted VM was because I was working ridiculous hours, driving too many miles in a week and trying to cope with working in a recession with a young family. In fact, I had woken up that week in a hotel and couldn't remember where I was. When I asked the receptionist where I was, she said, very helpfully, 'in reception'.

Maybe it's because when we are in our thirties we are in the 'establishing' phase of our lives where a combination of a young family and the need to establish a firm foundation for our lives is ever present? My immune system was on the floor apparently and it was only my aerobic fitness which saved me, had I not been training for a triathlon it would have been game over, that was something else my neurologist said.

[Njc88]

It is interesting, I had wondered the same thing. I thought I was a young, healthy person. The only (sort of unsatisfying) answer I came to is that I was really stressed at the time I got sick. Maybe we are just getting run down.