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Eye pressure

My Son of 17 is 7 weeks out VM his not back to his old self. Enterovirus found in spinal fluid. Hhe has fatique, and head feels weird and thick, he says...

My Son of 17 is 7 weeks out VM his not back to his old self. Enterovirus found i...

•6 years ago

Post TB meningitis treatment headache

my mom diagnosis with TB meningitis and started anti-TB drugs she recovers slowly and improved in 1 yrs no headache or seizure. its time to stop TB medicine...

my mom diagnosis with TB meningitis and started anti-TB drugs she recovers slowl...

•6 years ago

Help, please

I am Amanda, from Nanaimo Canada, please forgive my bad writing since English is not my first language. My husband has been in ICU 20 days, he was being...

I am Amanda, from Nanaimo Canada, please forgive my bad writing since English is...

•6 years ago

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Hair Loss after VM

I had viral meningitis in September this year and over the last 3 weeks have lost almost half my hair! Reading these posts has given me such hope! Thank you!...

I had viral meningitis in September this year and over the last 3 weeks have los...

•6 years ago

My uncle has meningitis

My is facing this disease..... he in in ICU since friday night....now he is kept in double ventilator....he is not responding to antibiotics....at beginning...

My is facing this disease..... he in in ICU since friday night....now he is kept...

•6 years ago

TBM treatment

My father is 64 years old after 1 month of urine infection treatment we get to know he has TBM with TCV . This is diagnose by MRI and CSF After Bell’s palsy...

My father is 64 years old after 1 month of urine infection treatment we get to k...

•6 years ago

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Need a guide

My brother Was diagnosed with Meningo encephalitis and hospitalized on September 18 /2017 .He was 12 days at hospital with several punctures of spinal fluid ,...

My brother Was diagnosed with Meningo encephalitis and hospitalized on September...

•6 years ago

Nervous about Christmas

A year ago Christmas my health took a nose dive!😊❤️😢. On the Car trip back up to New Jersey from my sisters in North Carolina, I had a really bad headache....

A year ago Christmas my health took a nose dive!😊❤️😢. On the Car trip back up ...

•6 years ago

Viral Meningitis can I still be infectious

Diagnosed with VM in July 2017 and suffering headaches mostly brought on by noise and bright light, dizziness, nausea and hearing loss any advise on how to...

Diagnosed with VM in July 2017 and suffering headaches mostly brought on by noi...

•6 years ago

Answer please.

My brother had a head operation due to the meningities and somehow it was success with 2 to 3 hrs only.but since then in about more than 9 hrs til now he is in...

My brother had a head operation due to the meningities and somehow it was succes...

•6 years ago

Thank you and Seasons Greetings

Thank you all for your contributions to this forum and the mutual support you have offered each other this year. It's been wonderful to see. I hope you all...

Thank you all for your contributions to this forum and the mutual support you ha...

Partner•6 years ago

15 Years On and Still Going Strong

As some of you may know I had near fatal viral meningitis in July 2002. I wasn't expected to last the night on the 13th July let alone be around and kicking...

As some of you may know I had near fatal viral meningitis in July 2002. I wasn't...

•6 years ago

Viral meningitis-August 2017

Hi, I had VM in August this year. Stupidly I associated meningitis with children and because I didn't have a rash ignored what was happening until I was...

Hi, I had VM in August this year. Stupidly I associated meningitis with children...

•6 years ago

Recovery- 3 months post diagnosis

Hi my name is Mia and I'm 17 and live in Somerset. I was hospitalised at the beginning of September with viral meningitis. I was a very odd case. I had no rash...

Hi my name is Mia and I'm 17 and live in Somerset. I was hospitalised at the beg...

•6 years ago

Desperate for help!!!

Hi. I’m from Denmark and I’m 17 years old. I’m writing to you because i have big health problem after a viral meningitis(I got a lot of medicine through my...

Hi. I’m from Denmark and I’m 17 years old. I’m writing to you because i have big...

•6 years ago

VM to cerebral sinus venous thrombosis

Had Viral Meningitis years ago. Recovered after about 3 weeks. Was diagnosed last Jan. with acute cerebral sinus venous thrombosis. Had all the symptoms...

Had Viral Meningitis years ago. Recovered after about 3 weeks. Was diagnosed las...

•6 years ago

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Headache relief

My partner was diagnosed with VM on Saturday. He was sent home on Monday with Codeine. Since his diagnosis, he’s not been able to sit up due to the headache...

My partner was diagnosed with VM on Saturday. He was sent home on Monday with Co...

•6 years ago

Fungal Meningitis diagnoses after 3 weeks of bacterial meningitis treatment

My mother in law had surgery to remove a benign tumor behind her ear. About 10 days after her surgery she began having terrible headaches and fever. At the...

My mother in law had surgery to remove a benign tumor behind her ear. About 10 d...

•6 years ago

Menengitis and acupuncture

Hi I would like to know if somebody knows if acupuncture helps for relaxing stiff neck and pain after having menengitis. My brother who Was diagnosed with VM...

Hi I would like to know if somebody knows if acupuncture helps for relaxing sti...

•6 years ago

A day off 1 year and 3 months

So it’s 1 day short of being a year and 3 months since being hospitalised with bacterial meningitis and it’s safe to say I’m still struggling. I know for a...

So it’s 1 day short of being a year and 3 months since being hospitalised with b...

•6 years ago

Acupuntura y menengitis

Alguien sabe si la acupuntura ayuda para aliviar el entumecimiento del cuello y los dolores repentinos de cabeza que me han quedado después de sufrir...

Alguien sabe si la acupuntura ayuda para aliviar el entumecimiento del cuello y...

•6 years ago

Candida Fungal Meningitis

My father has been suffering from fungal meningitis for three months now. It all started in september when while eating lunch a bone got stuck in his...

My father has been suffering from fungal meningitis for three months now. It all...

•6 years ago

VM keep getting symptoms after recovery

Just checking to see if anyone has experienced symptoms from VM even though you thought you where fully recovered. I ended up with VM in June 2017 and was...

Just checking to see if anyone has experienced symptoms from VM even though you ...

•6 years ago

What has helped your pain the most after VM?

I thought i would start a little post about what has helped me get thru the past months. I see us all suffer so much and there could be knowledge one of us has...

I thought i would start a little post about what has helped me get thru the past...

•6 years ago

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"Those post symptoms you are experiencing couldnt possibly be related to meningitis" Yeah right!!

It always makes me so frustrated when Dr's think none of our problems stem from post meningitis issues. The government really needs to start doing long term...

It always makes me so frustrated when Dr's think none of our problems stem from ...

•6 years ago

VIral Meningitis

I was hospitalized for viral meningitis 1 month ago. I'm having issues with a sore/weak neck and what feels like nerve issues going into the base of my...

I was hospitalized for viral meningitis 1 month ago. I'm having issues with a so...

•6 years ago

Dental treatment after meningitis

I had CSf leak had pneumococcal bacterial meningitis I am due to have a filling at the dentist should I have antibiotic cover I also 3x neurosurgery and had...

I had CSf leak had pneumococcal bacterial meningitis I am due to have a filling ...

•6 years ago

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Sofar from Spine minigitics

My child was treated of minorities when he was two and half years after then he can't sit on his own again walk talk or hear what can I do or what drug should...

My child was treated of minorities when he was two and half years after then he ...

•6 years ago

Viral Meningitis

About 5 months ago I was in hospital with Viral Meningitis, I had a lumbar puncture and bacterial was found in my spinal fluid. Very luckily they caught it...

About 5 months ago I was in hospital with Viral Meningitis, I had a lumbar punct...

•6 years ago

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Viral meningitis

I fought meningitis a couple years ago and nothing has been the same since. I had it in 2014 and now i have short term memory loss , vision problems , seizures...

I fought meningitis a couple years ago and nothing has been the same since. I ha...

•6 years ago

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