VM 5 years ago

[BChappers]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been reading a lot of comments on this forum about long term effects of VM and it has been really helpful to know that I am not the only one struggling to deal with the impact of VM and BM.

My family think I have health anxiety, which I probably do to some extent, but it just feels like my body isn’t working sometimes. I have tried to work, but am really struggling to do so, and mainly just don’t understand the symptoms.

It was 5 years ago now and I was 20 years old at the time. Initially I struggled in the first 3 months with headaches, fatigue, panic attacks and memory problems. After that, I started working and I thought things were going alright, but I still felt like a completely different person and the anxiety continued. Over the last 5 years I have just felt like there is always something going on with my body. At points it would just shut down, causing me to stop my studies and work. Most recently, I had an experience where it felt like I had vertigo, like I was going to faint, and my body felt like it was filling with water. It’s hard to explain. I’ve recently started getting tinnitus and waves of nerve tingling in the back left of my brain. I wondered if this is the nerve cells repairing themselves. My mental health has been really bad on and off since, and I’m have recently started psychotherapy again.

I feel I am beginning to understand the impact of this virus on my health, and the journey to recovery is long. I think I have reached a point where I know that this feeling that there is something wrong with my body is real, it’s just taking a long time to understand.

The more I understand, the easier it is for my family to understand too and support me better.

I am very grateful for this forum, and all the support Meningitis Now have given me over the years. I am posting just to share my story and I hope everyone who has had to deal with this has the support and information that they deserve.

[Portage]

I’ve had vertigo etc for too many years. I recently saw an immunology specialist (not just an aIlergy doctor). Discovered I had an IgG deficiency. I began treatment and can say the vertigo is gone. Still have tinnitus tho. Read about MTHFR also.