Labrynthitis

[outfished]

Originally Posted by basswipe

Consider yourself lucky as far as not contracting one of the more severe types.

Mine was in 1998 and I had just returned from deer hunting in Canada. Started with massive headache's, lost the use of my left eye (made me feel great seeing that I'm a photographer), partial paralysis of my left arm and hand, puking days on end just from the pain. Two spinals, two hours on a table for MRI's, a bizzilion blood test (I used to hate needles but compared to the pain it was a joke now), they finally narrowed it down to bacterial menengitis. Took me almost two years to finally shake it and still I swear some days when I'm way over extending myself (lack of sleep especially) I think I still can feel something not just right, like a very very mild headache in the same region as where the infection was. Doc's say it's phycosymatic. What a putz......

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by outfished

Mine was in 1998 and I had just returned from deer hunting in Canada. Started with massive headache's, lost the use of my left eye (made me feel great seeing that I'm a photographer), partial paralysis of my left arm and hand, puking days on end just from the pain. Two spinals, two hours on a table for MRI's, a bizzilion blood test (I used to hate needles but compared to the pain it was a joke now), they finally narrowed it down to bacterial menengitis. Took me almost two years to finally shake it and still I swear some days when I'm way over extending myself (lack of sleep especially) I think I still can feel something not just right, like a very very mild headache in the same region as where the infection was. Doc's say it's phycosymatic. What a putz......

Nevermind YOU DID contract one of the more severe types.

I agree about needles.I used to be petrified of needles.After 4 taps getting blood taken is a minor inconvenience at worst!

[gldnbear93]

RLC

My dad had laberynthitis really bad about ten years ago. It hit him while he was driving. He spent several days in the hospital and several more doing nothing at home before he could really even stand up straight. Every movement brought on a huge wave of dizzyness and nausea. He was on iv fluids for a few days also because he could not keep anything down. As I recall they also gave him some kind of medication to help reduce the nausea. It was a couple of months before he fully recovered. The doctors told him it could recur at any time, but it has not happenned again since.