Did your illness affect any of your lifesty... - Meningitis Now
Did your illness affect any of your lifestyle e.g. social life, education, family?
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)
