I am new to this forum- so maybe this has already been discussed. Have any of you had increased symptoms connected with a virus? I had come down with the flu really bad 27 yrs ago and I had a permanent visual change. Since it was a change in visual perception in the brain and not my eyes- I was wondering if that change may have changed other things I wasn’t even aware of or connected to the change. I know viruses can do weird things-
This is off topic for MAV but I get a condition everytime I get a cold that has the doctors baffled- I literally cough for 8 weeks and respond to no treatments. Last year when I had a cold I had an ENT Dr., allergy Dr., gastro-enterologist, my primary care physician all unable to get my cough to ease up. It finally did after 8 weeks. I am fine until I get a cold. Needless to say I fear getting a cold.
Hi Elsie
Likewise I came down with a bad virul/bacterial flu along with a vestibular migraine attack that has brought a permanent change to my vision since Feb 2012. Can you please describe your visual symptoms/disturbances?
Plus are you a sufferer of MAV?
Nabeel- I posted my story on the Post your story section just recently. ( If you go there you can read that if you like). I think I may have MAV but have not been diagnosed yet. I am a migraineur though. Had them all my life. Family history.
The visual change I experienced is hard to explain. My vision is normal but when I blink “rays” of light come out of any source of light. does that make sense? The closest thing I can use to explain it is how one sees blinking through tears or squinting through tears. I am used to it and don’t notice it anymore- but when I got the flu I was already depressed. An opthamologist told me it wasn’t my eyes it was my brain. I freaked out fearing that the change would get worse or I had a brain tumor. Never got an answer - just none of the doctors ever heard of anything like it.
How about your visual change? - anything similar to mine?
no Elsie
My visual changes r different to yours.
Mine actually has name. its call visual snow syndrome. u can read up on it at
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow
it consists of plenty of visual disturbances which i have them all unfort.
Thank you for the link- I had never heard of visual snow. Now I have. I am sorry to hear you have it.
Google Dr. Gacek in Tampa Bay. I reached out to him all the way from California. He put me on a very high dose of antiviral meds to hopefully help me get better from whatever caused my VN. It has not helped me yet, but you may want to give it a try.
BTW, I have all the same problems as Nabeel. It sucks
Although I have had issues for a long time, I went chronic after a virus. I, too, have a ton of visual symptoms that don’t seem to want to vacate, though many of them did not show up at the beginning. We are still working on getting them (and everything else) under control. The virus attacked my vagus nerve, and I think I have some residual damage still to that nerve. Viruses can indeed do weird things.
Elsie, has the doctor suggested you might have reactive airways, essentially asthma? Asthma can manifest with coughing rather than wheezing, and an upper respiratory infection can induce the condition in those susceptible.
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I am new to this forum- so maybe this has already been discussed. Have any of you had increased symptoms connected with a virus? I had come down with the flu really bad 27 yrs ago and I had a permanent visual change. Since it was a change in visual perception in the brain and not my eyes- I was wondering if that change may have changed other things I wasn’t even aware of or connected to the change. I know viruses can do weird things-
This is off topic for MAV but I get a condition everytime I get a cold that has the doctors baffled- I literally cough for 8 weeks and respond to no treatments. Last year when I had a cold I had an ENT Dr., allergy Dr., gastro-enterologist, my primary care physician all unable to get my cough to ease up. It finally did after 8 weeks. I am fine until I get a cold. Needless to say I fear getting a cold.
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I’m curious too. I have asthma that primarily manifests in a cough (rarely do I wheeze), and every and any upper respiratory infection tends to be much worse in me and tends to move to the chest. I now have an inhaler that I take when I get sick and it dramatically reduces the problems I have. I definitely agree with KennedyLane and would ask your doctor about this/getting a pulmonary function test if you haven’t already.
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Elsie, has the doctor suggested you might have reactive airways, essentially asthma? Asthma can manifest with coughing rather than wheezing, and an upper respiratory infection can induce the condition in those susceptible.
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I am new to this forum- so maybe this has already been discussed. Have any of you had increased symptoms connected with a virus? I had come down with the flu really bad 27 yrs ago and I had a permanent visual change. Since it was a change in visual perception in the brain and not my eyes- I was wondering if that change may have changed other things I wasn’t even aware of or connected to the change. I know viruses can do weird things-
This is off topic for MAV but I get a condition everytime I get a cold that has the doctors baffled- I literally cough for 8 weeks and respond to no treatments. Last year when I had a cold I had an ENT Dr., allergy Dr., gastro-enterologist, my primary care physician all unable to get my cough to ease up. It finally did after 8 weeks. I am fine until I get a cold. Needless to say I fear getting a cold.
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I have gone to allergist- and pulmonologist. She treated me as if i had asthma-with vaporizer, inhalants, prednisone, nothing worked. Finally Even had endoscopy done to rule out if acid reflux was exacerbating things. A real bugger. On line I found “virus induced asthma” it said it was diificult to treat & might persist for as long as 8 wks after getting a cold. That is about how long my cough lasted- 7.5 wks. I only get in trouble when I get a cold- weird
hi
I had a bout with an upper respiratory infection, then Bell’s Palsy (viral in nature) and then ended up with the weird visual stuff…hard to explain, but vision just seemed “off”…like wise it’s my brain and not my eyes, that is the culprit.
I did a bunch of testing and found I had a huge amount of antibodies to a virus called Cytomegalovirus. Pretty common but can cause a multitude of problems…not sure if this was my “big bang” or what, but after all that, MAV came to stay and never
left 
Kelley