Hi,

Sorry to hear about your wife's illness. I had viral meningitis in June
2004 and suffer from chronic head pain. It does change in intensity and
character - it is considered mixed type (tension with migraine-
features)...

Anyway, you can find all the info that I was abele to dig up under the
files section:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/PostmeningitisHeadache/files/

Hope you find some info that is useful.

One of the most important things I have learned is to find balance in
my every day life with stress reduction and other pain managemnet
techniques (balancing activity with rest). I cannot stress this enough!
Daily relaxation, exercise, diet -- it all has an affect. It may not
take the pain or headaches away, but it does have influence on how
severe and how often attacks can occur.

Hope this helps.

Best,
Laura

--- In PostmeningitisHeadache@yahoogroups.com, "stevenbeck_710"
<Solj4life@...> wrote:
>
> Hello, all. My wife was diagnosed with viral meningitis about 3
weeks
> ago. Since then, she has had 2 very severe headaches, each occurring
> about 7 days apart. The first occurred about 10 days after she was
> released from the hospital where she was treated for the meningitis.
> We went back to the ER and they just gave her a steroid taper and
some
> pain meds. The second about 7 days after that. The headaches
> accompanied with vomiting.
>
> I feel helpless in not knowing what to do. After some research on
the
> web I realized that post-meningitis headaches are not that uncommon.
> Any feedback will be much appreciated. Thank you.
>