Make new friends

It was good to be able to put faces to names at last!!! We had a great time and will certainly be looking forward to next year.

Michelle

Mutual Support

I can't put into words how it felt after 18 years to actually meet someone else who had the same condition!

Lyn

Fun for all the family

I enjoyed last year so much I can't wait for this year's bringing my mum, dad and best mate to meet you all!

Elaine

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Photo Gallery

Here we are, our rogues gallery of some of the photos from the first annual IIH Weekender held in May 2008, and the mini-Weekender held in Cardiff by IIH UK and IIH Support's Welsh members. A good time was had by all!

IIH UK Officers at the IIH UK launch Rosey, Michelle and Billy bear The IIH Weekender camp security team raise money for IIH UK The IIH Weekender camp security team raise money for IIH UK Weekender Justine with her IIH UK balloon The IIH Weekender 2008

We've no idea who invited the sheep to the alternative Weekender held in Cardiff!

The drunken sheep just before it got baa-ed from the pub! The alternative Cardiff Weekender

These are just some of the photos from our first annual IIH Weekender held in 2008. For more photos, check out the IIH Weekender 2008 Flickr group. Been to one of our weekends and got snaps of your weekend of fun with us? Join the IIH UK Flickr page and share your photos with us!

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Got some snaps of your time at the Weekender to share with us? Check us out on Flickr! and add your photos of your weekend to the Weekender group! (don't forget to tag it with "Weekender 2009"!)

The IIH "Weekender"

Countdown to Weekender 2010

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| The History of the Weekender |

For as long as anyone on the IIH Support forum can remember (and that's a pretty long time!), forum members have being trying to arrange a national get-together. They've come close a couple of times, and even once got as far as vaguely selecting a month, and sort of selecting a venue, but it was only been with the formation of IIH UK (which was quite a feat in itself!) that all of the plans finally came together, and in May 2008 we managed to put together a fun-packed weekend, as well as a chance for forum members and indeed anyone affected by IIH, to get together and meet up and have a good old chat!

We hope that the first "Weekender" as the meet-up's become colloquially known on the forum, held in 2008 will be the first of many, and if this year's is anywhere as near as successful as last year's, it should be a great weekend!

The IIH Weekender is a joint project between members of the IIH Support forum and the new UK charity devoted to the neurological condition, Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH), IIH UK. It's primarily an opportunity for those with IIH, and those close to someone with IIH to meet up face to face, to have a chat, a laugh, and we also have something very special lined up for the weekend too. The Weekender will also be the venue for IIH UK's second Annual General Meeting.

Full details of the weekend's timetable will be available on the website very soon, and for information about IIH and IIH UK, please see the links above.

Interested in finding out more about the IIH Weekender? Use our contact form to contact us! Everyone is welcome to come along to the IIH Weekender, you don't have to be a member of IIH UK or IIH Support to come along and join in the fun (though we hope you might be interested in joining us). If your life is affected by IIH, whether as a sufferer or as a carer to someone with IIH, or close to someone with IIH, you're welcome to come along! We don't bite (often!) and everyone who came to the Weekender last year, even those who'd been really nervous about meeting up with a group of "strangers", said they'd had a fantastic weekend and couldn't wait for us to announce details of the next one!

What are you waiting for...?