Did your illness affect any of your lifesty... - Meningitis Now
Did your illness affect any of your lifestyle e.g. social life, education, family?
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Yes. It has affected my ability to do sport. Swimming and fencing. The latter as my balance is so bad. Swimming is improving but very slolwly. Deafness has been a bit of a problem. More for other people I think.
I now have a hearing problems in one ear. Thankfully it doesn't affect my balance but I can't stand loud piercing noise. My eustachion tube (between my ears and my throat) contracts on its own and I feel a fluttering that I can't do anything about. A bit like fluttering eyelids! My high frequency hearing is also affected in that same ear.
for a long time i could not control my mood swings and temper so satyed away from people as i did not want to lash out, i had to use facebook to re train my mind who people where, as i had a time i could not reconise people
Same as tiga..... Mood swings wanting to shout for hardlyany reason...... Can't spend to long outside... Noise.. My people/space awareness is awful now.. Making and keeping concentration is hard
I had aseptic meningitis 4 times due to a leaky tumor. That was in 2008. I have had a headache everyday since then. I had the tumor removed last year and now the headache is worse.
When I first got sick I had to quite my job. And I can honestly say my "career" has never recovered but then neither has the US economy (I live in New Orleans)