Comments on: How to Detect Symptoms of Meningitis

on 6/23/2007 I was almost 2 years old when I had bacterial meningitis. My mother thought I had the flu again, and took me to the doctor. The doctor checked my temperature which was very high and looked at me...then told my mother to take me to the hospital. At the hospital I was diagnozed with bacterial meningitis...and stayed there for a while with IVs in the temple of my head to get the antibotics in faster. Six months later after the disease had gone, I was found deaf - confirmed by an audiologist. One of the long-term effects of meningitis is deafness.

on 11/22/2005 I have migraines, and once when I came down with the headache, stiff neck (etc.), my doctor said it was just a bad migraine. I took myself to the emergency room and was immediately diagnosed with meningitis, and had a spinal tap to confirm it.

If you feel like your doctor is not taking you seriously, ask to be tested, or go to the emergency room. I don't like to think about what could have happened to me if I hadn't gone.

on 11/22/2005 I almost died due to the lack of a correct diganosis. Just because you have migraines they dismiss you. I saw 4 doctors and no one knew or cared. I collapsed at a major medical hospital and then was Dx. I was very lucky. P.S. I am an RN.