DangerousDubiousness
12-02-09, 00:24
Normally I take most health related concerns in ignorant stride -- I just keep chugging, and things get better eventually. I find it a tad unusual that I began googling symptoms, but I suppose this one has me legitmately worried.
A few days ago (Today is Wednesday, so I'm talking Sunday/Monday), I had some pretty bad flu-like symptoms - headache (not a horrible one), chills, and what I'm assuming was a fever, but I didn't actually check that. I just drew that conclusion from oscillating between way-too-hot and way-too-cold and having restless, crazy dreams. The symptoms cleared up over the course of Tuesday, but were replaced by a rather stiff neck. And by rather stiff, I mean extremely stiff. The full range of motion is still there, but it's slow, and it's very unpleasant -- specifically, the "tilting-head-forward" range is the worst (though I can make it all the way to my chest, with some wincing), side-to-side kind of hurts, and tilting it back barely hurts at all. That's sort of an unusual thing to happen, so it got me thinking about that nasty 'meningitis' word. I thought about it for a long time - enough so to freak myself out a little.
The catch is, all of my other symptoms cleared up. Aside from my neck, I feel fine - no haziness or mental impairment (in fact, I took a logical reasoning test at an engineering-related job interview today and performed very well on it). I am still a bit more exhausted than usual, but at this point, I'm chalking that up to flu-recovery. I'll still probably see a doctor if the stiffness persists, but it's too late to get in anywhere but an ER now, and that's an awful hassle for as bad as I don't feel.
Has anyone here had or known of meningitis presenting like this? From what I understand, if you have meningitis, you're pretty ill, which, aside from the neck, I am no longer (like I said, made it through a job interview today with no trouble aside from looking around :P).
A few days ago (Today is Wednesday, so I'm talking Sunday/Monday), I had some pretty bad flu-like symptoms - headache (not a horrible one), chills, and what I'm assuming was a fever, but I didn't actually check that. I just drew that conclusion from oscillating between way-too-hot and way-too-cold and having restless, crazy dreams. The symptoms cleared up over the course of Tuesday, but were replaced by a rather stiff neck. And by rather stiff, I mean extremely stiff. The full range of motion is still there, but it's slow, and it's very unpleasant -- specifically, the "tilting-head-forward" range is the worst (though I can make it all the way to my chest, with some wincing), side-to-side kind of hurts, and tilting it back barely hurts at all. That's sort of an unusual thing to happen, so it got me thinking about that nasty 'meningitis' word. I thought about it for a long time - enough so to freak myself out a little.
The catch is, all of my other symptoms cleared up. Aside from my neck, I feel fine - no haziness or mental impairment (in fact, I took a logical reasoning test at an engineering-related job interview today and performed very well on it). I am still a bit more exhausted than usual, but at this point, I'm chalking that up to flu-recovery. I'll still probably see a doctor if the stiffness persists, but it's too late to get in anywhere but an ER now, and that's an awful hassle for as bad as I don't feel.
Has anyone here had or known of meningitis presenting like this? From what I understand, if you have meningitis, you're pretty ill, which, aside from the neck, I am no longer (like I said, made it through a job interview today with no trouble aside from looking around :P).