Meningitis Survivors at Ohio University 

Damn, that stay strong people. There is not much You can do now, try to support them as much as You can. Hope he will be OK. I survived meningitis while I was a baby.

I had the Viral version of it and I was bedridden for 3 weeks and could barely walk! It was awfull but I was grateful I didnt have the bacterial version.

i had meningites when i was 8 i had a stiff neck and all the syontoms iwent to the docter and we had no clue what it was the doctors thought i was fine just a cold had a 1.09 temp but my mom fought and they ran test i was in fl and got rushed into all childrens hospital in st peatersberg i had exrays and had sevral mri s i had surgery i had a sizure and in the middle of it my heart stoped i was dead but then i came back im lucky to be here today

I had this when i was 9 or 10. I just remember the headaches, stiff neck, and all the pain. Beyond horrible..i hope it doesn`t have a long term effect..i dont ever want to feel that way again.

I had meningitis as a baby, I don't remember it at all but my parents tell me I nearly died. Terrified them to see me hospitalized

10..I never really fit in to society..iam a out cast..I find being alone better than having friends..I have one girl friend lisa now 20 years..she's a big help to me..she gets along with most every one..she's a department store manager..

Bacterial meningitis doesn't need to travel down your spin to affect motor skills. It is, however, nearly always fatal without treatment. It's extremely unlikely you had bacterial meningitis and spontaneously recovered. Viral meningitis has a high incidence of spontaneous recovery, but like most viruses, never goes away. You would still test positive today.

I had it when I was fifteen, on my way to my guitar lesson I suddenly had a headache (not really strong, but somehow strange, different from the other times). I asked my teacher if I could leave my cap on. When I was on my way home, I started getting worse and worse. There was a chemistry test on the day after, but I couldn't study. I checked my temperature which was above 38 Degrees. The following days it got worse and worse, I couldn't walk anymore and I stared vomiting. The heacache got unbearable. We got a doctor to my home, he said I was fine and I should just take on taking my medicine. 2 days later we went to another doctor, who said I should eat more and that I was snivelling... Thank God afterwards my parents took me to hospital, they took care of me. The first thing they did they gave me painkillers directly into my blood, which felt great.

It was kind of odd because the back of my head was numb for about a week, but the initial encounter traveled down my spine and it hurt so bad I thought I had cancer. Couldn't even move and my family wouldn't take me to the doctor even though I asked.

18..I served 6 months all togather.. while going back and forth to court every month..held on 10grand...cash bond..till they dropped all the charges. .except..one missdemeanor charge of Failure to Apear in Court..on the bogus other charges...I got out Oct 2 2017..lived in a hotel for a month..then left Connecticut and moved to Florida..

I feel so bad for you guys. :(

20..I still work excavating Const..paving and trucking jobs in Florida..and live ons day at a time. Paying bills..living in my pick up again. Working with no insurance.. There's alott more nightmare storys I went through I can't write about it all..but I still enjoy reading and seeing movies documentary movies and utube videos of Vietnam Vetrans...I find what the those soldiers..went through there and at home..similar to my experiences..in many ways..iam just now starting to learn more about meningitis B...and wish I can start to turn my life around..and get out of this fucking rut...I been in the last 30 years..

8..I experienced mental problems..and had got locked up .in state of CT places that are like a prison with no record of it..I then went homeless..for years on end..over 10 years now..with brief stays for a few months getting a room for rent at times..mainly living in walmart parking lotts..in vehicles i owned different ones every few years..vans..1 car..and 1 pick up...also a bosses dump truck...and a bosses box trailer..as well as tractor trailers i drove for a living at times..

9..I mainly do for a living Construction operating Construction Equipment..and or drive trucks and laborers work in Excavating and Paving..iam still held back from advancing my jobs ..because of lack of math and blue print reading knowledge..

Part 4..he looked at me fast on the floor of the ER..and then put me in a isolation room by my self..on a strecher... I recall it was a cold room..all I could see was a door..with a small window in it and hospital staff walking by..I suffered in there for hours alone to a Chinese doctor walked in..looked st me..checked my eyes...and temperature that's all I remember I then passed out cold..

Part 7..I could never do good in school after it..math classes just draws a blank spot..I also had CD a very violent abused child hood before and after the sickness .so iam kinda anti social..I dont gel well with other people..at times I have a blank personality..

Part 6..I dont feal now at 48 years old I ever fully recoved from it..I study it now to learn more about it..

Part 2...I drank the water out of the stream..not knowing it flowed out of a swamp up stream..by the time I pushed the bike home..I became real sick..by the next day I was bed riddin..with massive head ach ...high fever..pain in my back and neck..it got worse..I tryed long hot showers. Tylonal..nothing worked. I suffered 2 more weeks like that bed riddin. Before my sister demanded my mother take me to the Norwalk Connecticut Hospital...

15..I lived in the contractors box trailer a few months..in winter time freezing my ass off...then i had two apartments in a few months...then I went back homeless living in the contractors dump truck..in a walmart parking lot a few months...till the truck broke down and he fired me..not having a vehicle of my own at the time..and no place to live no job..I payed a local Dover NJ pot dealer almost 300.oo $...to drive me the 2hr plus ride back to Stamford Connecticut..I then walked in the pooring..rain 30 miles to Westport ct to turn my self in...because Norwalk ct pigs are to violent and corrupt to turn my self in there..

17..after two months I was transferred to Somers CT up by the Massachusetts line..on the other side of the state .to the oldest and most Populated prison in CT called Osborn Prison...I was put back into a solitary cell block the first month..where I saw a inmate kill him self. And the gaurds did not help him...they laughed at him dieing..slowly..bleeding out..then I was put into a mental cell block called the G unit..with over 150 inmates..both prisons are a level 3 and 4 medium security prison...max is a 5.. .

12..I bonded out..then gir arrested again in a torrington ct hospital ..arguments with three staff over my state of ct insurance they CD would not except..lead to me being beat to shit

Part 3..at the hospital while doing intake paper work..my father showed up there from work it was about 700pm at night..I recall I was so sick and tired..with massive migrain headach..I could not seat in the seat any more and I layed on the floor...finally I idiot office paper pusher lady suggested she get a ER doctor to look at me..

I'm wondering though, does it have the ability to travel down the spine? a couple years something hit me so bad, it was painful to stand or walk even laying in bed. I thought I had cancer.

15..I was taken to Norwalk ct court the next day...and then transported by prison van to Bridgeport Connecticut state prison..

Part 5..I did not no where I was at...it felt like I had been asleep a few hours...the doctor explained to me..as my grand parents cried out loud...I had been in Acoma 3 days..I had a Stroke. And it was caused by drinking out of the stream..I had gotten..Menigitus B..back then they called it meningococcal meningitis..I stayed out of school over 2 months recovering at home.. ..

Part 4..I basically died I was told latter..I saw a tunnel and bright lights..the pain I suffered in for almost 2.5 weeks was gone...I awoke..hearing my grand father .Dominick lato. Almost Crying saying Jimmy's Alive..it was foggy to see ..as I focuses my eyes more.i see my grand father and grand mother standing over me..and I see a temporary partition wall behind them..only as high as there shoulders...and I see hospital staff walking back and forth..and a doctor come running over..he's comming out of it thank god..he said..

They explained everything but how they got it.

I had viral When I was 14 The whole day I spent outside and was very ill The worst headache Feeling changes In temp Fever the lot Went straight to bed that day but my mum came to check up on me spoke to the hospital on the phone the said it was meningites. Straight away I was taken to hospital by the ambulance and I didn't remember thing until I was in the hospital room unable to see the light. Worst experience of my life. Thankfully anti biodics saved my life :)

Back when I had meningitis b in the mid 80s...there was no vaccine and not alot of medical staff knew any thing about it...and many patients died of it ..the doctors tolled my parents I was 1 hour away from death...when I was brought to the hospital ER..in Norwalk CT..the stroke really fucked up my brain..

I was a survivor of meningitis and Kawasaki when I was 3 months old

I have had meningitis 6 times belive it or not. It was horrible. I had lost mieline in the left side of my brain

11..in 2014 I was basically stalked and harassed over 1.5 years in Norwalk and Wilton CT..Fairfield county..for being homeless in my van..by the local corupt...police..so cause I would not leave the area I grew up in..and worked in ..I was arrested on missdemeanor charges..

16..it was a total night mear..its one of the most dangerous prisons in CT in a ghetto...I was in a dormatory with 300 inmates the first month..then in solitary for the next month..I learned the prison gaurds..goons are more dangerous then most the inmates...

I have bacterial meningitis... it is horrible. Is that a vaccine for it? I ask my doctor they said no

i had Meningitis when i was 2 months old