Hip
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Caught my virus in June or July 2003 in London. This then started causing major neuropsychological symptoms such as anxiety and anhedonia a few months later. Some memory problems and mild fatigue also appeared at this time, but not as yet ME/CFS.
Then in February or March 2005, I experienced an episode of viral meningitis, which for various reasons I am fairly sure was due to the same virus. This meningitis caused some loss of mental facilities, some personality change (especially in the way my emotions worked), as well as a loss of smell (which only returned around 5 years later). It's not unusual to have this sort of mild brain damage from meningitis. I felt weaker after the meningitis, and the meningitis also caused a huge increase in anxiety levels, but as yet proper ME/CFS had still not manifested.
But in the year or two after the meningitis, I slowly but surely descended into ME/CFS. Because it was a slow progressive descent, there was no particular season involved, but I guess I gradually slipped into ME/CFS during the years 2005 and 2006.
Then in February or March 2005, I experienced an episode of viral meningitis, which for various reasons I am fairly sure was due to the same virus. This meningitis caused some loss of mental facilities, some personality change (especially in the way my emotions worked), as well as a loss of smell (which only returned around 5 years later). It's not unusual to have this sort of mild brain damage from meningitis. I felt weaker after the meningitis, and the meningitis also caused a huge increase in anxiety levels, but as yet proper ME/CFS had still not manifested.
But in the year or two after the meningitis, I slowly but surely descended into ME/CFS. Because it was a slow progressive descent, there was no particular season involved, but I guess I gradually slipped into ME/CFS during the years 2005 and 2006.