Labrynthitis

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Originally Posted by basswipe

That kind of sounds how I felt AFTER having meningitis.

Hey Basswipe, I caught meningitis a few years back. Seriously the closet I've come to suicide. Sucked BIG time! How long did it take to shake it off?

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by outfished

Hey Basswipe, I caught meningitis a few years back. Seriously the closet I've come to suicide. Sucked BIG time! How long did it take to shake it off?

I remember it like it was yesterday.It was the summer of 1983.

I was on vacation on the Cape.Felt sick the 1st day.Felt like dying the next day.After 4 spinal tap attempts I was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis and was isolated in a room for 10 days.I peaked at a balmy 107 temp had a headache that makes a migraine look mild and couldn't stop puking.I can remember being packed in ice.I can remember the only three people allowed in the room were my doctor,the shift nurse and my dad and they all had to wear masks,gloves and gowns.

It took close to six months to fully recover.The after affects can last a long time.Some affects can be permanent as some of mine were but that I won't get into.

It was a freakin nightmare come to life.

The few forms that adults can contract are usually viral and are more comparable to the flu.Some forms can even be vaccinated against.

Consider yourself lucky as far as not contracting one of the more severe types.

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Originally Posted by basswipe

Consider yourself lucky as far as not contracting one of the more severe types.

Mine was in 1998 and I had just returned from deer hunting in Canada. Started with massive headache's, lost the use of my left eye (made me feel great seeing that I'm a photographer), partial paralysis of my left arm and hand, puking days on end just from the pain. Two spinals, two hours on a table for MRI's, a bizzilion blood test (I used to hate needles but compared to the pain it was a joke now), they finally narrowed it down to bacterial menengitis. Took me almost two years to finally shake it and still I swear some days when I'm way over extending myself (lack of sleep especially) I think I still can feel something not just right, like a very very mild headache in the same region as where the infection was. Doc's say it's phycosymatic. What a putz......

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by outfished

Mine was in 1998 and I had just returned from deer hunting in Canada. Started with massive headache's, lost the use of my left eye (made me feel great seeing that I'm a photographer), partial paralysis of my left arm and hand, puking days on end just from the pain. Two spinals, two hours on a table for MRI's, a bizzilion blood test (I used to hate needles but compared to the pain it was a joke now), they finally narrowed it down to bacterial menengitis. Took me almost two years to finally shake it and still I swear some days when I'm way over extending myself (lack of sleep especially) I think I still can feel something not just right, like a very very mild headache in the same region as where the infection was. Doc's say it's phycosymatic. What a putz......

Nevermind YOU DID contract one of the more severe types.

I agree about needles.I used to be petrified of needles.After 4 taps getting blood taken is a minor inconvenience at worst!

[gldnbear93]

RLC

My dad had laberynthitis really bad about ten years ago. It hit him while he was driving. He spent several days in the hospital and several more doing nothing at home before he could really even stand up straight. Every movement brought on a huge wave of dizzyness and nausea. He was on iv fluids for a few days also because he could not keep anything down. As I recall they also gave him some kind of medication to help reduce the nausea. It was a couple of months before he fully recovered. The doctors told him it could recur at any time, but it has not happenned again since.