News & Stories
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Stories
Gemma M's story
Gemma had a range of symptoms including fever, sickness, photophobia, a very bad head pain, stiff neck and confusion. The 21-year-old from Basildon in Essex had contracted viral meningitis
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Kevin D's story
Kevin contracted meningitis as a very young child, which caused him to lose most of his eyesight. But he has never let this define him and has gone on to lead a very fulfilling life
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Cat's story
When Cat started uni in October 2015 she was an "extremely healthy 20-year-old who had just spent her gap year running around working various jobs abroad"; until she became seriously unwell
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Sharon's story
To celebrate starting to feel better and to acknowledge all the support her partner had given after recovering from viral meningitis Sharon married her partner Neil
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Daisy's story
Daisy was 25 when she became ill two years ago with a headache, fever, sickness and sensitivity to light. To this day the young mum still suffers headaches but, thanks to brilliant support from her family and friends, she has been able to rebuild her life
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Kasie's story
Twenty-eight-year-old Kasie, from Pen-y-ffordd in Flintshire, started feeling ill with a severe headache, dizziness, fatigue, nausea and sickness, stiffness and pain in neck and shoulders and light sensitivity
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Stephanie's story
Lying in a strange hospital bed, alone and terrified, Stephanie really didn’t know what was going to happen to her. It took a full six days of tests until she was finally diagnosed – with viral meningitis
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Samantha N's story
Thirty-nine-year-old Samantha from Leybourne in Kent thought she had been overdoing it when she felt dizzy and sick. But as her symptoms mounted up to include lower back ache, a severe headache and loss of control of her right leg, she knew it was time to see a doctor
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Rita and Nancy's story
It was September 2016 and Rachael Holgate from Darlington should have been celebrating the birth of her new twin girls. Instead, she had an agonising wait to see if the girls would pull through after being diagnosed with viral meningitis
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Katy D's story
Thirty-six-year-old Katy, from Immingham in Lincolnshire, was suffering from severe headaches, but when she found herself unable to speak and with a loss of feeling in her arm her mother took her straight to A and E
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Emilia S's story
Baby Emilia had what her parents thought was a viral rash, which doctors initially diagnosed as nappy rash. But as her symptoms grew worse and she became more unsettled her concerned parents took her to hospital, where viral meningitis was diagnosed
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Kirsten A's story
Twenty-eight-year-old Kirsten, from Bonnyrigg in Midlothian, was pregnant with her second child, Benjamin, when she became ill