I was recently in the hospital with viral meningitis. They attempted over 15 times to do a spinal tap which was excruschiating, and finally sent me to another hospital where they could perform it by following an x-ray. That time took them three time. My labs came back with 3100 rbc in in spinal fluid and the number of rbc only increased by the 4th tube. I was discharged (because I asked to be) 2 days later. I have since then been deterioting. My back pain is unbelieveable I can no longer sleep becuase of it, my legs constantly twitch when I am relaxed, and I no longer can climb stairs without me legs going numb. I was sent for an mri fora possible epidural abcess or hematome, but my mri has yet to been looked at. I am going down hill fast and would like some advise please.