Has anyone had any experince of a dog with meningitis?
my friends BC has it ,hes about 6 & is very bad i think.

Do they get left with problems (like people) if they recover?

out of interest hes being suffering with thyriod problems(though was looking & feeling MUCH better recently) then had KC, has thses things made him susepatble to meningitis?

Don't know about dogs meningitis but if they suffer the same way as we do it will depend on whether it's viral (not catching and recovery quicker) or bacterial.  Even though meningitis is horrible it's not the illness itself that does the damage but the septicemia (sp?) that develops. It's this that causes the longterm damage and obviously it can be fatal if not discovered quickly enough.

i dont really know many details,:( im really worried though:(
poor little dog,some dogs do get more of their fair share of stuff dont they, & his poor owner seems to have had a real run of bad luck (in & out of dogs) & shes the niciest lady you could meet :(

nobody know anything then?

My 7 year old weimaraner has had meningitis twice when she was a pup.  We almost lost her the first time she got it as my vet thought she had simply slipped a disc in her neck.  2 weeks later she was admitted to the vet hospital in Edinburgh and after a spinal tap meningitis was confirmed.  It was a steriod responsive meningitis but she was also put on a course of AB's.  She has made a full recovery although her gait in her right hind leg has never been the same, although it hasn't affected her, and her reflexes in that leg are a bit slower.  Her right pupil also does not change in size as quickly as her left pupil.  She was diagnosed as being immune deficient and back then it was thought to have been caused by the meningitis.  These days though the vets are now not sure if she even is immune deficient.

I don't know how or why she got meningitis but I do suspect she may have suffered a reaction to her puppy vaccinations as this can be common in weimaraners and a side effect of suffering a reaction to vaccinations is indeed meningitis.  With my other 2 weimars I changed the regime of vaccination to split the vaccines up to reduce the chances of a reaction.

Thankfully canine meningitis is not the same as human meningitis and so it wasn't contagious at all.

HTH

http://www.vetinfo.com/dmeningitis.html