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(Message started by: MadHatter on May 10^th, 2007, 6:11pm)

Title: Meningitis
Post by MadHatter on May 10^th, 2007, 6:11pm

A coworker asked me what was wrong the other day and I replied I had a headache. She responded with the typical assumption that I had migrains and I told her I was a CH'r.
She then excitedly exclaimed, "Oh, you have suicide headaches. My ex-husband had suicide headaches". Then she said something really interesting. She said her ex-husband also had meningitis when he was a kid. I had meningitis when I was a kid too.
Wondering if there is any correlation. Anybody else had meningitis and is now a CH'r?

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by Rosybabe on May 10^th, 2007, 6:19pm

no, not me.

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by ClusterChuck on May 10^th, 2007, 6:22pm

Nope. Not me ...

Chuck

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by swimchica623 on May 10^th, 2007, 6:27pm

me neither but they were thiiiiis close to testing me for it in the ER when i was still undiagnosed, thats why your post caught my attention.

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by Redd on May 10^th, 2007, 6:42pm

Yes I had meningitus...there are two kinds...

bacterial that can be cleared up fairly easy with anti biotics if caught in time, and the viral which is difficult to treat and can be deadly. I had viral, but I recovered in about a months time. I was 13.

Come to think of it, (not related I'm sure) but that was the only time before my late teens I ever recall having had a headache.

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by TonyG1 on May 10^th, 2007, 6:54pm

Not me

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by Guiseppi on May 10^th, 2007, 6:54pm

Never had it either, scary stuff from what I've read.

Guiseppi

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by starlight on May 13^th, 2007, 4:44pm

I've never had that. But I do believe there could be a viral connection (I even started a thread on here asking about chickenpox and mono). I started getting my CH right after I got mono and it had supposedly cleared (but it hadn't cause I ended up with chronic mono). I also had a head injury when I was a kid.
Meningitis is pretty rare, so it is interesting that you and your co-workers husband who both have CH also had meningitis.
I think there is a lot that they don't know yet about these headaches.

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by BarbaraD on May 13^th, 2007, 11:06pm

That's strange. I didn't have it but my father died with it. We all had to take medicine after he died.

It was about 8 years later that I came down with CH.

Hugs BD

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by Tote on May 13^th, 2007, 11:07pm

I had Hydrocephalus, i was diagnosed 4 years ago, so i had a surgical placement of a shunt system. When i was diagnosed about this, the doctor ask me if i had Meningitis whan i was a kid, the answer is no, I never really knew the cause of the Hydrocephalus, but i had some studies and everything seems ok. I´m CH (episodic) since 1999, the first cicle happens when i was in college. I ever wonder if this has something to do with this.

Jose Ramon

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by thomas on May 14^th, 2007, 10:02am

Had spinal meningitis at 9 months, was in a coma for a while with a temp over 105 for many days. Wasn't supposed to make it. :-/

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by chrisw on May 14^th, 2007, 2:17pm

no meningitis, but have had epilepsy due to a brain tumor. maybe spinal cord or brain damage can be a cause?
Chrisw

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by Turts on May 14^th, 2007, 7:28pm

nope

i always get meningitis mixed up with mixamatosis.
I havent had either!

Turts

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by burnt-toast on May 15^th, 2007, 7:38am

Sorry, no Meningitis here either.

Tom

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by midwestbeth on May 15^th, 2007, 7:57am

I never had meningitis, but my mother had viral meningitis when I was 9 and was hospitalized for 3 months. She said the headaches caused by the meningitis were horrible. She never had headaches before.

Beth

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by artonio7 on May 15^th, 2007, 11:54am

To my knowledge I've never had Meningitis.

with warm regards,
Tony

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by catherinelane on May 15^th, 2007, 3:51pm

yes i had meningitis

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by barry_sword on May 15^th, 2007, 6:10pm

No meningitis here.

Barry

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by Batch on May 16^th, 2007, 4:06am

No...

But I did come down with eosinophilic meningitis a few years back that was associated with Ibuprofen

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by rolo65 on May 19^th, 2007, 1:12am

No, but got a good [smiley=laugh.gif] with the suicide headache comment.

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by MR_FLOOR on May 20^th, 2007, 2:42pm

Not Me

Dave

Title: Re: Meningitis
Post by tanner on May 20^th, 2007, 5:53pm

Yes, bacterial at age 12 almost died....

Viral at age 15, not as bad but no walk in the park....

Viral again at age 35, this was after the onset of Clusters and was freakin horrible.

Obviously I have brought this up many times with every Neuro I have seen since CH and they know ::) of no tie, but do think some of my other little health issues may be related to the meningitis.

Best of luck......Tim