Can chronic meningitis show no symptoms for months in duration?!
Question: Can chronic meningitis show no symptoms for months in duration!?
Can it reoccur with some degree of predictability!? Does the condition always worsen!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
as I remeber it, it starts out with extremly bad headaches,, but here is what i found at http://www!.merck!.com/mmhe/sec06/ch089/ch!.!.!.
Symptoms and Diagnosis
The symptoms of chronic meningitis are similar to those of acute bacterial meningitis, but they develop more slowly and gradually, usually over weeks rather than days!. Fever is often less severe than that in people with acute bacterial meningitis!. Headache, confusion, and backache are common!. Weakness, pins-and-needles sensations, numbness, and facial paralysis, which are also common, indicate that the cranial or peripheral nerves are affected!.
my personal experience,,,,,,,, I had head aches, and flu like symptoms, at first doc thought i had flu but soon I got worst, back then tho they called in encyphulitis, it has simililar symptons,,,,,,,Www@Answer-Health@Com
Symptoms and Diagnosis
The symptoms of chronic meningitis are similar to those of acute bacterial meningitis, but they develop more slowly and gradually, usually over weeks rather than days!. Fever is often less severe than that in people with acute bacterial meningitis!. Headache, confusion, and backache are common!. Weakness, pins-and-needles sensations, numbness, and facial paralysis, which are also common, indicate that the cranial or peripheral nerves are affected!.
my personal experience,,,,,,,, I had head aches, and flu like symptoms, at first doc thought i had flu but soon I got worst, back then tho they called in encyphulitis, it has simililar symptons,,,,,,,Www@Answer-Health@Com