Hi! I am new to this site. My husband had vertigo and hearing loss and was sent to the ER where they decided to do and MRI. This happened earlier this year in the summer. The results were pachymenigitis. He has an infection in there but has no headaches, thank goodness. Now he is displaying the following: sleeping a lot, bladder incontinence, trouble lifting his legs, some confusion but does not have a headache. He is scheduled for another MRI in order to compare the two MRI's. He turned 72 in July. It is like he is confused a lot. I am going to get him an an appointment with the neurologist as I am scared why this all happened starting this past week. They think it is an infection from when he had MRSA after foot surgery and the blood clots he developed from his groin to his ankle, which there are 3 of them in his left leg. He does wear his compression hose. I am 5 years younger but have had strokes. We are each other's caregiver. He is just totally wiped out all the time all of a sudden. The bladder incontinence was just now and then but now it is about every day. He cannot help it. I did get him incontinence underwear which he does wear. I am very concerned about why the sudden change in the past week and a half to have such a change. The reason he hasn't gone to the doctor is unfortunately I was in the hospital for a day and a half due to a small stroke and I think it was the stress of worrying about my husband. When they happen which this was the 8th one as I have Lupus and Mitral Valve Prolapse and many other autoimmune diseases as well as Antiphospholipid APS. They happen when I am under extreme stress they happen and I cannot talk or use my right side for a day. I am concerned that my husband not being able to hear well at all, and everything else that he has wrong that it happened so fast. He was put on Meclizine for the Vertigo which he tried to wean off of but found out he will always have to take it. He also has Osteoarthritis. He has high blood pressure and has been on heart medication for years. His appetite is the same which is good. I had never heard of pachymeningitis until he went to the ER with vertigo and the MRI showed this and that is when the neurologist spoke to us. He was glad my husband does not get a headache ever, but said if he got one he needed to get to the hospital right away. My problem is, I cannot find much about pachymeningitis as well as my husband's symptoms and if it is the pachymeningitis or something else. When he tries to walk, he is having trouble lifting his feel. When he does walk all of a sudden he is on his tiptoes, leaning forward and almost is going too fast that he looks like he will fall. He doesn't know why when I ask questions. I tell him I am concerned he will fall. He has a cane but only seems to use it at night to get out of bed to go to the bathroom and back which we do have an attached bathroom to our bedroom. I am scared to death because the vertigo when it started he fell into the shower doors as well as pulled a towel bar out of the drywall. It is I want to know from others if they are dealing with these symptoms with their love ones who have pachymeningitis. I had never heard of this until my husband was diagnosed with this at the ER this summer. I feel like I just cannot look up and getting any more information than a little bit that is what I find on every site but it is very little information. Please help me as I feel I am treading water. Thank you in advance