Long term after effects

My husband had viral menengitis in november 2007. The ER docs said he had the flu. We insisted that it was not . Finally the dx him with menengitis. atmitted him to to hosp. Thank God the doctor started him on the meds that he did or he wouldn't be here today. He then in june 2009 was dx with mollerats menengitis. He has severe pain most of the time. very poor memory, balance issues,headaches, fataige, muscle aches, joint pain, hands don't work right, pain meds don't work anymore. we were at md today and they suggested to get on line. please help he is only 35 and feels like he is 85.

My father had Bacterial Meningitis 4 years ago that he contracted as a result of an ear infection. He survived and initially could not walk or feed himself, but after 2 months in rehabilitation he appeared fullly recovered and went home to live independently again. At the time he was 83 years old and very sharp mentally. About 2 years later, he began to develop balance problems and some other issues with using his hands to do tedious work. These symptoms worsened, and he experienced several falls, which resulted in hospitalization and eventually living in a long term care setting. He now has lost ability to feed himself, walk, has lost bladder control, and has difficulty talking. Meanwhle, the doctors have diagnosed Alzheimers disease. However, my father's memory is still good. He has a longstanding hearing impairment which existed before the meninigits, and basically he is about 80% deaf. My problem is that the nurses and physicians all assume he has Alzheimers, but I disagree. I believe all of his symptoms relate to the Meningitis, and right now, he is terribly frustrated due to losing much of his physical capacity, but being still sharp cognitively. Has anyone heard of this type of effect of Meningitis? or heard of it being confused with Alzheimers? Barbara

I too contracted Pneumococcal meningitis at the end of 2008, saved by the good fortune that my beloved wife ignored me telling her I was fine, just a migraine, I work within the NHS and should have known better. I have spent a year getting back to work, that was my goal, but things are not as before my balance can on certain days be very bad, along with exacerbated hearing with certain things such as plastic bags / crisp packets newspapers being crumpled and my memory can be very short term, stopping during a sentence then forgetting what I was talking about, I think I am hiding it but a good friend was honest with me the other day and told me what a bad day I must be having as he noticed things were not right. I have made appointments now through my GP to follow up these symptoms which I believe to be getting worse. I am more than grateful to be one of the lucky ones and now realise that each day no matter how difficult is a blessing, my children give me everything I could ask for and I thank who ever for sparing me and for giving me this extra time with them.
I like no doubt others wish things would return to as before and my heart goes out to you Lisa and wish you all the best, and to Wayne and your daughter, Misty would I am sure wish be proud that you could say the things you said with such meaning. Be strong, it does not get easier with time but you do learn how to cope.

My name is Wayne. Im 29 years old. My daughter is 5. We just lost her mom to meningitis on Valentines day. Her name was Misty Strong. She was 28 years old. She was the greatest woman i ever knew and its so hard to raise our daughter without her. We miss her so much