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My bacterial meningitis was 4 years ago. I still get terrible headaches and my balance is not good at all. I am in a wheelchair and do not drive, either. I have memory and concentration problems, wear hearing aids and have an eye that is badly damaged. I get very tired very quickly and have tinnitus. I was a librarian and read 3 books a week. Now I can not remember characters so I am thrilled if I can read one book in 6 weeks! Even then, I have to dig back in the book to find out who is the "Who done it" person! I am now 61 years old, so you can see I am no spring chicken! I remain happy, but in a whole different wourld. I have my bad days, but I try to stay up. I am thankful to be alive, but when a bad headache comes, I wonder. Then I remember that God has a plan for me, and this is where I am to be.
I try to laugh a lot, bacause it makes people wonder what I am up to! I have been blessed with a great sensen of humor, and I sure need it now!
Eileen
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:27 AM, philip_maas <philip_maas@...> wrote:
LAY OFF THE IBUPROFEN!!!!! THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR MENINGITIS!! It makes it worse! I almost killed myself with ibuprofen as I was misdiagnosed the first time and they just thought it was a stomach bug. Was popping motrin's every 3 hours....thank god I stopped. Stick with Tylenol!
--- In PostmeningitisHeadache@yahoogroups.com, "Kimberly" <kstegman@...> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I am now on 5 weeks out since getting viral meningitis. My fever,
> chills, sweats and tremors have stopped and for the most part not
> getting the non stop migraines anymore but did have a migraine attack
> but only lasted less than half a day however I have been getting
> almost 18 hours a day vertigo, extreme off balance feeling too and
> neck aches, headaches unlike the neck pain and migraines. My doctors
> think it is far too far out since the initial viral meningitis attack
> as well not having any fever, etc but as well are surprised regarding
> my horrible balance issues that I honestly have not been able to
> drive since 5 weeks ago and very rarely can get out of the house due
> to the store lighting in most places makes my vertigo much worse.
> They are doing an MRI tomorrow of my neck and brain, although went
> through a CT 2 weeks ago and found nothing they are not expecting to
> find anything on the MRI either however what the heck can one do for
> the almost constant vertigo? I know this has to be from the virus
> because prior I would have occasional vertigo with occasional
> migraines but still functioned. This is just horrible! I am down to
> only taking 1 advil migraine a day and 1 extra strength Tylenol which
> is little compared to 800 mg of ibuprofen and 3 Tylenol's a day I
> used to be on.
>
> Any suggestions, ideas please let me know! :)
> Thanks so much everyone, Huge Hugs,
> Kimberly :)
>
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