Meningitis Symptoms More Condition_symptoms Medical Question About Viral Meningitis Symptoms, Could Someone Help?

Medical Question about Viral Meningitis symptoms, could someone help? - meningitis symptoms more condition_symptoms

My symptoms:
one weeks before all this I had started a cold .. I'm much better and started with headaches, neck, two days after two days, headache, pain, fever, sore throat, not even after 7 days of symptoms. dr said it was viral meningitis. would it be? I read online that the only way to know if it is meningitis, a lumbar puncture, is that true?