My Experience Of Meningitis

It all began on Tuesday 8th February 2000. (I was 30) I spend the day doing my usual things, getting my son ready for school, going to work. Etc. At work I told friends that I felt I was coming down with a cold (you know the feeling you get in your face when your sinuses feel blocked) and that I felt cold and achy. I left work at my usual time and waited for my son to come home from school. That evening I was supposed to be visiting my parents to collect something my son needed for school. I rang my father and told him I didn’t feel well and wouldn't be coming. He told me he would bring it to my house. I have a huge belief in fate. Afterwards my father ...  Read the complete review

Viral meningitis seems to be far less publicised than bacterial meningitis yet can be as serious. Symptoms ------------ When I was 20 I woke up one morning with a splitting headache. As I had been drinking fairly heavily the night before I put it down to that, went back to bed and slept most of the day. The following day I felt pretty washed out but basically OK. The next day I had a terrible headache again and was very photosensitive (sensitive to light) and I was pretty worried . I called my mum, who was also concerned, and she took me to the doctor. The doctor diagnosed migraine, gave me an injections, told me to go and rest, but to come ...  Read the complete review

I had meningitus 15 years ago. Luckily I had the "milder" type and I am here today. 15 years ago there wasnt the publicity there is today about it and it now seems unbelievable but when my family were told what I had we had to look it up in the medical dictionary to find out more about it as hardly anyone had heard about it. I had the hurting of the eyes and the stiff neck and flu like feeling but the worse of it was the noise and the sound of talking I could hear. It was hell. I admire children, in fact anyone that has had meningitus and come through it safely as unless you have had it you cannot imagine the pain. I would ...  Read the complete review

The purpose of this opinion is to allow Dooyoo members with young children to see how the disease can be missed, by mimicking other ailments until too late. It is also part of a set of opinions (hopefully) from the family members as to the effect on their lives that this traumatic event had on them. This is going to be a little difficult to write, as I still feel the guilt for nearly allowing my stepdaughter to die next to me on the sofa, while waiting for my wife to come home from the first evening out she had had in the 3 years since the birth of our youngest son. Even 9 months on, I am writing this choked up as I think of my failure to realise what was going ...  Read the complete review

My daughter shares a house with two other students, and last year one of her housemates very nearly died from Meningitis. She complained of flu-like symptoms early in the evening, and by late evening she had severe joint pains. The doctor was called and prescribed pain killers, saying that it was simply flu. During the night she started to vomit and developed a headache. In the middle of the night she was in agony, and fortunately my daughter (who had been keeping an eye on her friend throughout the night) had the sense to ring my wife, a nurse, for advice. My daughter then immediately dialled 999 for an ambulance, which arrived within 7 ...  Read the complete review