Iāve just tested positive for covid. The dizziness is already worse - particularly head intolerance, Iām only a bit achey so far. Wish me luck!
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Best of luck my love! Sorry youāre unwell! 
I hope your dizziness stays at a manageable level for you 
If it helps you to know I am now in a full blown relapse and thatās been starting from the beginning of the month. Now housebound again, and increasing Amitriptyline to 75mg. Ugh when will it endā¦
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Good luck both of you! Know you will return to baseline. Itās just a bump in the road!
@Belindy I was luckier: Iām sure I had Omicron recently (awful cough for 3 weeks or so) but my MAV symptoms did not get worse thank goodness!
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Thank you James, 
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Oh no @MNEK18, your relapses have become so frequent. Itās just not fair. Thinking of you, both housebound for the time being.
@turnitaround thatās good. The strain here at the moment is quite bad, lots of people coming back to work after more than 3 weeks off. Maybe Delta has reared itās ugly head again. Hope itās quick and I go back to baseline.
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Yeah I guess it could happen. The more of it we get, of course, the better we will be to equipped to fight it off. This is especially important before we get older. So think of it as a blessing to get infected before you are less able (however uncomfortable and disruptive it is now)? The immune system usually benefits from a reasonable (so long as not overwhelming!) workout.
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Well Iām day 5 and itās been awful. Still spiking fevers, night sweats and coughing like crazy. The dizziness has lessened and I hope it stays away! Maybe focused on other things.
That is not good. The people I know personally who had covid got better after 6-7 days, but the cough lingered for a few weeks. Hopefully youāll feel better soon and the dizziness goes and stays away.
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Ok so Iām a wild turn of events, I have had a 2 day long horrid migraine - Iām going to call it - I feel worse with this compared to covid. Dizzy, heavy, brain fog, photophobia, vomits the works!
For those who have had covid, do you think this is because of covid or not? Iām due back at work tomorrow and just not up for it. Iām at the tail end of Ajovy too and canāt have next injection till Friday.
Sorry to hear you are suffering Belindy. My eldest daughter had Covid recently in her second trimester. She doesnāt get headaches often but had lots with Covid, a hacking cough and vomiting. She felt better in herself after about a week and tried to go back to work (WFH luckily)but still had headaches and vomited (often due to the remaining cough) for another few weeks. She has a lot of sympathy for me now she has an inkling of what we go through.
I think that apart from the symptoms of Covid itās actually a bit scary and stressful just to know you have it which would mess with MAV and certainly the headaches and vomiting would also exacerbate Mav and raise your āthresholdā
Hope you feel better soon and can take a bit longer off work.
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Thanks @sputnik2 - youāre right, there are definitely longer symptoms but this is something else.
I feel mostly better from covid. A little cough remains and Iām tired.
I honestly think Iām relapsing. I woke up again this morning vomiting in a bucket. Iām yawning, Iām weak and Iāve got a headache in the usual places. Non stop! This is exactly how I felt 18 months ago - except the vertigo was worse. Itās not going away after days now.
I have a Tele health appointment with my neurologist tomorrow. Iāve had my Ajovy injection 2 days early today and I think Iāll take some pizotifen tonight. Noooooo! Why must we get it so much worse than others
Belindy thatās so horrible. Vomiting migraines are the worst. I really hope you get some great advice on your tele appointment. Relapses are the pits. Iāve been relapsing ( as has my son who gets occular and regular migraines), feels like our lives are on hold. The sun is out but we canāt face it.
If you feel you are on the mend after a week of Covid Iād say you have done very well. As it can so readily affect balance MAVers could easily find it much more severe. Last week My own GP was flat out in bed unable to move for five full days and heās fighting fit with no other health conditions at all.
Could well be a relapse as you say. Maybe the Ajovy hadnāt been in your system long enough/at high enough dose to cope with such an assault as Covid on your tolerance levels. However whatever measures we take thereās bound to be a level beyond which this will happen. Up until last Christmas I was sailing along very nicely until an hour long MRI Scan put me into relapse.
Btw had you taken up the offer of vaccination yet?
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Is there another type? If so Iāve yet to meet one. Maybe Iāve led too sheltered a life.
Totally off topic but I couldnāt resist! Helen
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Yes Iāve always had the vomiting type! I feel that after reading so many posts on here, I am more of the vomiting type. I vomited my way through my first major episode every day. Itās the pits!
I know Helen, I worry about Ajovy. I sometimes want more armour. And right again, covid is awful and really as bad as it was, it was āmildā for me. A walk in the park compared to this now!
Yepā¦ Iāve been vaccinated 3 times. Kept it mild I would have thought. I didnāt have any shortness of breath.
I wonder if this is what they call āpost covid headacheā. Lots written about it - and more prevalent in migranours. Weeks to months of persistent headache. Oh god!
An hour long mri! Wow. Hope they didnāt find anything. Hope youāre travelling ok now Helen
Nothing in this article I liked! Phrases like āsix monthsā and covid has been associated with chronification of migraine and worsening of migraineāā¦
Post covid headaches shares the same sensitivity to light, sound, smell. Isnāt it a migraine then?
āItās a headache that mimics their migraine but doesnāt respond to their usual treatmentsā - YEP
And here I was thinking it was a cough and fevers. Of course there had to be more.
Maybe this is really what I have after all. Considering (touch wood) dizziness and vertigo have been missing this time.
Havenāt I got a fun couple of months ahead. A migraine that doesnāt go away.
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I suspect some smart Alec medical theorist somewhere would tell you it cannot be a migraine because migraine is a primary headache and this post-Covid headache would be considered secondary because itās caused by another condition! All very good these theorists but not a large amount of assistance to those suffering.
Trouble is both conditions share many of the same neural pathways. I remember catching part of a local TV program on covid and for a couple of minutes thinking the interviewee must have been a MAVer. Turned out they were some of the earliest Long Covid victims.
Back to the Pizotifen maybe. Btw I recall on line references to Pizotifen being useful with light sensitivity though not on here.