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Did you mistake your symptoms with another illness?

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the only symptoms i had was i got up for work one Friday morning and legs ached thought i had the flu went back to bed in the middle of the night i had trouble breathing a ambulance car came the medic could find nothing wrong with me lucky for me a full ambulance crew cae and decided to take me to hospital at about 2am at 11am on the Saturday morning my wife was told they had done the glass test and i had BM i had known of the us-all symptoms at all

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Tiga

when i was tacken to good hope, they thought i was drunk, as i was smiling, but i am one of these people that act in a manner that does not sute others, so hence was left in room for 3 hours b 4 i was treated

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kel80

Thought I was tired..so triedto sleeping got worse then couldn't move..ambulance came took me straight away..

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Tangled

I thought I had the flu....

The doctors in the ER thought I had the flu and sent me home. 48 hours later I was in the ICU on life support and diagnosed in Bacterial Meningitis.

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