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Q: Meningitis cause of pain ?

asked by: Bigbird on February 23rd, 2009

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I’m in my late 30’s and I started 4 1/2 weeks ago with a severe cold. Most of the cold was a very sore throat, a very light fever, and a ton of pain in my neck, it felt like the aches that you get with the flu. After about 7 days of not getting better I went to the doc and the first words out of his mouth were could be Meningitis but more than likely not. So, off I went with antibiotics and a "come see me if you’re not better in about 10 days".
Well it’s been past the 10 days and the pain in the neck is getting worse by the day along with really bad headaches and eyes being sensitive to light with flashes every now and again. The cold is, for the most part gone, I still have sniffles in the morning.
Do I need to go see the doc and what are the chances that its Meningitis? Is there anything else it could be?

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MandMs

replied on February 25th, 2009

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In most of the cases very severe headache is predominant symptom of meningitis in adults.
This is often followed with rigid neck, painful neck when the one tries to touch the breastbone with the chin (it may be painful when the head is rotated, too).
You are indeed suspicious for meningitis, and because your symptoms last longer than a week, means they are chronic ones, you may be infected with some virus, tuberculosis, syphilis, fungi, or you may have meningitis due to other process in your body.
Sometimes, drugs, even anti inflammatory ones can trigger meningitis (environmental toxins must be taken in consideration, too).

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