I just tested positive to Covid and I noticed that I’ve had no symptoms while using otherwise problematic devices when I have a fever. Has anyone else experienced this? (Not that I’m planning to have fever on a regular basis as a solution to my eye strain😅. I just thought it was interesting)

Can't speak to eyestrain, but I have noticed multiple times that itchy eczema stops when I have a fever. Feel better soon!

denise_eca For me it’s the other way around, just before I get sick I can feel in my eyes that it hurts more. Then one or some hours later I can feel the fever/sickness. The last few days have been hot, and we have been in the cottage with old fans. My eyes doesn’t like that, and it feels like I have got an eye inflammation. I also have troubles with my sinuses, and I am not the only one on this forum with that. I think there is some people on this forum that have problems with there sinuses but haven’t discover that yet.

Yes, that was the case recently for me. Was a bit sick or allergic, I don't know and the headaches were almost gone.

Thanks for your comment, Mike. Sometimes it looks like each person has something different, but somehow presents the same symptoms…

I have a long history of sinus infections and inflammation. In the past, I noticed the onset of mild eyestrain coincidentally with sinus attacks. However, my eyes' condition has never been as bad as these days with no improvement - actually more of a constant decay - since last February, and I have not had once a sinus issue or a cold since early 2020, clearly because of the wearing of a mask and all the other COVID-related hygiene habits. I should add that my eye symptoms have become worse in spite of doing visual therapy for the past year and a half, and visiting specialists such as orthoptists and neuro-ophthalmologists, that I had never consulted before. So, no, I am not sure there is an evident link between my sinuses and my eye strain. Perhaps an illness such as a cold may aggravate my eyes' condition, but my eyestrain is definitely caused by other triggers than sinus inflammation.

Maybe it's because your immune system is very active at this moment and you're pumping lots of cortisol so that you can handle more easily anything that was threatening your body or health before. Having a fever is an immune system reaction.

Oh my goodness! I felt the thing exactly. The day I had my worst covid symptoms was the day I felt the most productive since I couldn't feel my headaches at all. I remember getting so much work done that day. Im not sure if we have the same type of headache, but have you been able to find something that has helped you so far?

kidCurry I have been using a USB-C external monitor with my MacBook Air.. It helped a bit, but after longer periods I still get eye strain and headaches. But it is very interesting that the symptoms were better when we had fever…

AGI So, no, I am not sure there is an evident link between my sinuses and my eye strain I believe there is. The most common co morbidity I have found with people with our condition is sinus problems. I have only ever heard of 2 people who were 100% cured of our condition, each was cured after having unrelated pallete and sinus surgeries. I believe the nerve pathways that our symptoms travel through run through the sinus and pallete area. they are highly ennervated

ensete It happens I do indeed have sinus problems. But why do recent screens trigger symptoms but former ones do not.

Are your strain symptoms better when you have a fever?

jen

For me, I don’t have any eyestrain or eye muscle involvement in my LED symptoms - and an expert in BVD confirmed today after their specialized exam that I don’t have any binocular vision disorder at all (as expected for me since I don’t have correlating symptoms). I doubt that it was the 1.4 degree increase in body temperature itself that made the pressure in my head from from flicker drain away and not restart during the days with fever. The flicker sensitivity was absent throughout the 8 days that my temperature was going up and down, even in the mornings when my temperature tended to be normal. I think it’s more likely that the complex systemic inflammatory processes started by the fever (changing circulating immune protein levels and immune cell localization, etc) did something to short circuit the pressure in my head caused by flicker. I was very sick and the inflammatory processes due to the illness were very present throughout those 8 days. I guess it’s possible the slight temperature change mattered too, even if the timing of the two didn’t quite match

I’m glad heat might help for some of the people who do have eye muscle symptoms.

Allekss

Liberator005 that's a very good question. Maybe new generation of monitors etc… affects our nervous system?

jen

Does anyone else whose LED sensitivity goes away during a fever experience unusually bad or strange symptoms when the fever ends?

Twice in the last year I’ve had probably non-Covid viral respiratory infections with multiple days of 100-101F fever. Both times, my LED sensitivity and symptoms went away during the days of fever. Both times when the fever broke, the LED pain/pressure in my right temple came back with much greater intensity than before the fever and my LED sensitivity was greater than before the fever. Strangely, both times when the fever broke I also became scarily lightheaded with brain fog if I didn’t take steps to force extra blood to my brain - elevating my feet above my head or very actively moving so skeletal muscles would assist venous return. The first illness had been 8 days of fever and on top of everything else when the fever broke I’d get periodic brief, intense jabs of pain in the flicker spot in my right temple if I was walking around in the first couple of days (without any flicker stimulus) and the lightheadness/brain fog lasted several days. The second illness wasn’t nearly as bad as the first, had only 3 days of fever, about 40 hours of lightheadedness/brain fog after the fever broke with none of the weird extra jabs of pain.

None of my family members who had the same illnesses experienced these weird post-fever symptoms. Since brain fog is one of my typical LED symptoms and since the extra pain was in the LED spot in my head, I’m wondering if all of this is connected - maybe inflammatory factors shift focus to the infection during the fever and then function extra-aggressively upon shifting focus back to the LED symptom spot.

Has anyone else experienced extra-intense or strange symptoms after a fever breaks?

528491

jen Well, I'll generally not do well after a fever (right now I'm at the tail end of a COVID week). During these periods, I'll ingest inordinate amounts of hot honey + lemon + ginger.

I know my body to be extremely sensitive to daily fluctuations in food intake, so if I "just quit" that drink without having an intermediate period of decreasing dosage (of sugar intake, that is), I'm going to have some terrible migraines!

If this explains what you're feeling or not, that's another question.

528491

I always considered migraines to be a form of inflammatory reaction. If this is or not the case, I'll let the doctors decide.

I have migraines every day (together with light sensitivity) but the moment I have some sort of illness that requires some serious processing from my immune system (a flu, etc), the migraines are off.

Also, if I'm taking anti-inflammatories, migraines are gone.

The way it works with me very strongly reminds me of the "hygiene hypothesis" -- I have an immune system that just has too many soldiers without anything to do most of the time, and unless there's a real crisis needing their use, they'll pick fights here and there just to pass time.

Tobiyas

__528491__ I trace to this post from your profile and boy, its strange that there are people with legitimate migraine like I do.

The daily struggles and chores one has to deal with, the dreadfulness of waking up to a feeling of hangover etc. I hardly met anyone with a genuine struggle against migraine nowadays. Migraine is like the new Austism where people are now self-diagnosing themselves with or were misdiagnosed by a general practitioner.

Btw, an actual Migraine has four stages. Unlike tension or sinus headache, Migraine is a neurological disorder, rather than a symptom of an underling problem. I believe you might be able to relate. While some people claimed they have a migraine attack, they also claimed they do not the light or sound sensitivity, aura or postdrome. Then theirs is not a migraine attack. One can't just skip stage 1 or 2 and exit from stage 3 (migraine attack). It is probably the other two common headache symptom.

| The four stages of migraine |
| --- |
| ** |
| Stage 1: Migraine Prodrome: includes neck stiffness, frequent yawning |
| ** |
| Stage 2: Migraine Aura (may happen before or while in a migraine attack):** Include visual phenomena such as seeing various shape, bright spots or flashes of light, vision loss, difficulty speaking |
| ** |
| Stage 3: Migraine Attack :** Pain, usually on one side, but more often on both sides-increased sensitivity to light, sound and smell or touch- pain that throbs or pulse - last between 4 to 72 hours |
| ** |
| Stage 4: Migraine Post-drome: Following the attack, Feeling confused and washout up to a day, or even unexplained onset happiness |

https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/what-are-the-stages-of-a-migraine

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