Meg: hospital or not? Spinal tap Question

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--- megl2001 megl2001@...> wrote:

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> Hi everyone,

>

> thanks to all of you for your thoughts, it is more

> of a help than you

> will ever know. So here is whats happened so far...

Please forgive this question! I have seen several

people refer to spinal taps. Why do they do them? I

am TERRIFIED of spinal taps. I have no idea why other

than the name scares me. I was in the ER three years

ago with what they suspected was meningitis and I

refused the spinal tap. They gave me some drugs to

calm me down but I was still coherent enough to

continue refusing. The ER Dr finally said that I

could go home because he figured I had viral

meningitis instead of bacterial so there was nothing

they could do but make me confortable with pain meds.

I know that is ridicluous for a grown woman to act

like such a baby but I just have this fear....

Thanks!

Nikki

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