Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
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Read stories written first-hand by those affected both directly and indirectly by meningitis. Also, get to know how meningitis affected their lives afterwards. Meningitis Now is the meningitis patient group and the charity dedicated to fighting meningitis in the UK.
Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
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Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
8M ago
It was a normal afternoon for Chloe, from Stroud, until her four-month-old son started screaming. A lumbar puncture later confirmed Rupert had viral meningitis ..read more
Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
9M ago
Niamh had been complaining of a headache and had been saying that her neck was hurting. Niamh was also tired, grumpy and lacking in her normal boundless energy. Suspecting meningitis, mum Charlotte set of for hospital ..read more
Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
9M ago
Daniela, from Broxbourne, was on a family shopping trip with her newborn son when he stopped breathing. A lumbar puncture confirmed meningococcal meningitis. She tells us her story ..read more
Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
9M ago
Amelia from Norfolk tells us the chilling story of what her new-born daughter, Esther, had to go through before being diagnosed with viral meningitis at just three weeks old ..read more
Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
9M ago
Kate from Essex was looking forward to introducing her new son to his big sister. But viral meningitis, and the ongoing after-effects of her son’s diagnosis, meant the newborn days turned into months of worry ..read more
Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
10M ago
Twelve months ago Sophie had what she thought was sunstroke. In fact, she’d contracted viral meningitis and it has been a life-changing experience for her ..read more
Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
10M ago
Jacqueline G from Dorset was an active, sociable 61-year-old when she contracted bacterial meningitis eight years ago ..read more
Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
10M ago
A holiday in 2009 quickly turned into a nightmare for Amy, from Hereford. Amy tells us how her experience of being hospitalised with meningitis in Spain was just the start of her ordeal ..read more
Meningitis Now | Meningitis Stories
11M ago
10-week-old Arthur had a rash that disappeared when his mum Colette did the glass test, so paramedics wrote off the possibility of meningitis ..read more