I am a recent survivor of meningitis and would like to warn all of you of situations I have experienced which have certainly made my recovery much more difficult than they should have been.

I was given anabolic steroids during my recovery- yes, the same stuff that was found in the wrestler that killed his family then himself. These steroids may have contained mercury. How is mercury being introduced intravenously going to affect a brain either suffering from, or recovering from, meningitis?

This is a question I am asking myself a lot right now, aside from the fact that the anabolic steroids do not seem to be what should have been administered to begin with, because I ended up having severe "roid rage" as I tried to recover from my illness at home and they weaned me off of the steroids.

The doctors also prescribed me other medications which should not have been given to someone with a head injury, such as Tramadol, for example, which made me violently ill.

My outpatient doctor flatly refused to return me to work, even though he gave no reason and I was quite eager and able to do so. When you read about patients recovering from meningitis having trouble returning to work, it is not because they cannot or do not wish to- it is because of acts of self-preservation by doctors.

Is this ethical medical practice toward a patient whom just suffered great head trauma? Someone please tell me the state of medicine is not comprised of practices like this, and that I am right when I believe what is being done to survivors of meningitis is wrong.