Hello, just wanted to ask if anyone else has found their migraines ramping up in to overdrive ever since getting Covid?
I've seen there have been a couple studdies trying to link the two, and wanted to toss my hat in the arena as well.
Male, 39, started gatting migraines in grade 3 and they've been monghly or bi weekly occurences my whole life.
Cambia or T3 would usually dull the attacks in a couple hours enough to function lightly on bad days. I miss those days.
My life has begun to fall apart since October 2023.
My wife and I took Covid seriously, and we both managed to avoid it, until we didnt. Nailed after lockdown ended from a family gathering with children. Worst flu we ever had, and I ended up roasting with a fever of 103.5 for a couple days, called the doctor and they said I should call for an ambulance and Inpassed out before I could. Managed to wake up several hours later and the fever had broken. Ever since then however my migraines have become nearly constant with my good days being biweekly or worse.
Waking up with them is the usual, and the vertigo when moving with nausea that accompanies them is debilitating to the point where I miss over half my working days each year. I'm blessed with an employer who understands as they also suffered migraines for many years, as did their husband.
I've been shotgunned the usual suspects, Cambia now just makes me have to sleep the whole day, sumatriptan, amytriptaline, candesartin, propanolol, naproxen, baclofen, Ubrelvy, Emgality injection, and others.
At best they knock me out for 6 hours making me unable to get to work, and at worst they cause anxiety or depression related side effects that make me worry for my already shakey mental health.
I had to fight with my neuro to get an MRI (wouldn't agree to contrast) and was simply told there was nothing concerning.
I'm fraying at the edges of hope and just wanted to see if anyone else has experienced the same worsening of symptoms after a bad fever/illness/Covid to help better argue my position with my neuro.
Wishing you all a pain free day.