I am a 32 year old man and I have had viral meningitis for 2 weeks now. I have migraines when ever i do any sort of activity, go outside or look at a computer screen so this is very hard to do right now. When I went to the emergency room last week, morphine was the only thing that helped. They gave me a spinal-tap and sent me home with percocet. It helped while I was lying down in a dark room. I spent a week at home all drugged up. The doctor at the ER told me I should be fine in 7-10 days. I was feeling better so decided to go to work, I work construction outside. Just the drive to work was to much for me, I had to get driven home. It got so bad the percocet wasn't helping. I went to see a neurologist and he gave me Divalproex ER 500mg TER and Metoclopramide HCL 10mg tab. i took the pills and got sick like I had the flu, dizzy, diarrhea and sore stomach. I no longer have any faith in my doctors so I went online and found some remedies for migraines. I'm now taking MigraSolve (pextadolex), bee propolis, licorice root, vitamin d3 and a probiotic for the last couple of days and still feel the same. I also have a small pituitary tumor and take testosterone, but the neurologist said it wasn't the problem. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them. I really need to get back to work, I have a wife and little boy and I'm the sole provider.
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Thank you for your interest in helping me. I no longer have the meningitis. It lasted about a full month. After writing the post I found a holistic doctor. She gave me a vitamin c iv push and by the next day I was amazingly better. Not a hundred percent but better. Why didn't the other doctors know that I could have been helped with something as simple as a vitamin iv? Instead they just gave me drugs and said to wait it out. Are our doctors that brain washed that they believe everything is fixed only with drugs? Do they know better but care only about the dollar? I'm just glad I found a doctor that knows better.
Interesting I read an article the other day on Vitamin C IV being given to a man in intensive care with H1NI. After much haggling with the hospital staff and a lawyer being present they finally decided to hook him up to the IV and he recovered. This was a man who was not responding to modern medicine. Glad you are feeling better.
Glen I have been reading some of your posts recently and have come to the conclusion that you are a waste of space! You haven't completed your thread on water ironizer's after you said you were going on a seminar and more importantly your suggestion of taking control of your health by attending Dr Mercola's clinic is great for those who live in and around Chicago and have endless amounts of money. Try not to be so insensitive - yes we would all like to take control of our health, but not if it means going into debt. While I realize that you are employed by Dr Mercola and at every opportunity you have to market the clinic, there are better ways of doing it.
I had viral meningitis too. It was very scary. I had just finished my exams, and then BAM I started getting this INSANE migrane. Never had a headache like that before in my life.... it went on for a couple of days I just laid in bed, my boyfriend had to put garbage bags over the windows, I couldn't stand the light, I couldn't stand up, I would faint, and I would throw up. My dad told me to go to emergency that I might have encephalitis or West Nile Virus (he's no doctor). I went to emergency, they told me I had a Urinary tract infection. I was wearing sunglasses at night and shivering, I called my dad and told him what they said, he was PISSED. He drove 2 hours to come down and take my to emergency again, this time forcing me to a bed in emerge, I got a lumbar puncture, didn't hurt at all compared to the headache I was having, I actually received a lot of relief from the lumbar puncture, taking the fluid off my brain. Anyways, they had no Idea what I had, apparently I had WBC's in my spinal fluid, so I was admitted to the hospital and a neurologist saw me, they still couldn't determine with all the tests they had done, what exactly I had. They hopped me up on drugs, I was hallucinating, I was hearing music (specifically Bryan Adams, Weird I know), and also I was hallucinating that I saw the devil, and that he was holding my arms down and I couldn't move them unless I opened my clenched fists. It was the year that Katrina hit because I was watching it from my hospital bed, I was in for 11 days, I lost so much weight and looked like a Prisoner of war, my eyes were sunken in my head. I remember I wanted to get up as much as I could while in the hospital and I couldn't sit directly on my but otherwise my head would KILL... the pain I remember was unbearable. They kept saying they thought it was encephalitis or viral meningitis. All I know is I became extremely depressed while in the hospital and I hope never to experience that again in my life. Luckily I had my dad and mom who pushed me to the hospital as well as my boyfriend.