Wouldn't wish it on anyone, Not all symptoms show so it's scary, I got the rashes a week after treatment! The headache is like no other headache though, literally like your heads about to explode.

Glad your o.k. now.It does put things into perspective though.

I've done my bit raising the profile of it, might even help someone

There's a leaflet they hand out, it highlights some key moments;

8am Wake up with a headache

10am medication is no longer relieving the headache

2pm dizziness and photophobia sets in

4pm headache is now worse

{some other things}

10pm Dead!

It read something like that, ultimately the ending was the same.

Good to see rival fans coming together for the goodness of mankind BB, like I say, we may have done our bit

Glad you survived/have been reincarnated, but in these times of austerity, if people are going to be dead by 10 O'clock anyway the leaflet seems a bit pointless.

They were hoping it would cause a massive influx of people visiting the GP with migraines.

It's a pretty serious thing to have and if not caught within a few hours can kill so Ur lucky Ur wife is a nurse it can be confused with flu.

Yeah, I was content, although uncomfortable, laid in bed under the covers, never have liked going and waiting in the hospital and assumed I'd be told to go home and rest, Another thing though, When the doctor came I'd started being sick (just bile) and this was her "kerchinnngggg" moment as it meant my head had swollen inside and a certain gland that causes you to be sick had pressure on it.
I realised how serious it was when I didn't have to occupy the waiting room, as my doctor had diagnosed and referred me, I skipped straight through to treatment on arrival.

Yeah it's always a sign when u don't have to sit with all the drunks in a and e my other half had it bout 10 years ago I wasn't with him then think his was the meningocil one.

while were on the subject of awareness thought id tell my story.. Was 15 went home from school with flu. Next thing i knew woke up in castle hill after spending the week in a coma. meningocil septicema (spelling) had to learn how to walk again as my muscles in my legs stopped working. Very lucky not to have lost limbs or brain damaged or even worse...
Its always nice to read the stories of people spotting it early and it being cured as in this day and age everyone knows the symptoms. 18 years ago it was unheard of in the public domain like it is now. Thank god i had a good doctor.

They deffinately rush this through now, I knew nothing about the condition or it's symptoms and if I'd been single would have just tried to sleep it off, luckily my partner knew all the out if hours numbers and half diagnosed me on the basis of her own awareness taught into them at uni.

Glad your still around, out of interest, were you a rovers fan beforehand?