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Unhappy Dec 27, 2021 at 01:17 AM
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I am now experiencing migraine headaches and light sensitivity. I will see how I feel in the morning.
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Default Dec 27, 2021 at 04:00 AM
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I hope you feel better soon. I’ve never had migraine headaches but have had light sensitivity and it’s so painful!
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I have both at times. I think the migraines cause have high sensitivity to our surroundings. I also experience sensitivity to noise with the migraines. I hope you are feeling better in the morning.
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I've been having those same symptoms for a few days. Its been going on all day today and I'm thinking of taking of a second Advil since the first one didn't help. Theres just weird stuff out there. My mom says its possible people can have just a little bit of covid.

I hope you feel better.
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@Mountaindewed - I've been sheltering/isolating in my apartment for literally 7 days, so I'm not sure that it could be Covid, but who knows - maybe the omicron does mildly affect us through fomite (surface) transmission, or perhaps there is shared air coming through my vents, including my central heating unit. I do feel a little safer knowing that more and more people are getting mild infections. So far, my niece and her husband who have Covid (the kind that took away their smell and taste though) are fully vaccinated and having only mild effects (they aren't yet eligible for their booster, and now they have to wait longer since they got a breakthrough case). My nephew, who is on leave from the Army, is staying with them temporarily. He tested negative for Covid, even though he is not yet boosted and is staying with two Covid-positive family members (his sister and brother-in-law). It seems like the vaccines work on preventing illness, too. He gets tested again when he returns to base, and before he flies. I think he's safe. The son of my niece and her husband is too young to get vaccinated, and he, too, tested negative. Their tests were at a doctor's office, so not the rapid tests (which are now impossible to find). I'm glad they are safe and doing well. They've been sick for 7 days though.

The last time I saw anyone was outside and social distanced. I saw about 4 people to give them gifts, and I always met them outside. We are all fully boosted and vaccinated, fully masked, and socially distanced while outside only. That occurred about a little over a week ago. I never had any symptoms, but I still self-quarantined for 7 days from that point. The only symptom I had was the migraines and light sensitivity. There is fluorescent lighting in my apartment, so I wasn't using the lamps that I normally would because I'm doing deep/spring cleaning very late this year, LOL. I cleaned the walls with Scentivia on my Swiffer, and I dusted a lot. I didn't wear a mask while I was doing all this cleaning with chemicals and dusting. There could be some 'Rona virus on there, but perhaps deactivated or weak. I tried to clean and disinfect as many things as I could after the inspections I had on Dec. 1. I also unpacked over 40 boxes between 2 days ago and this morning, so perhaps my migraines are coming from a bunch of things. But who knows. I am just grateful for being alive and relatively healthy, even though my health remains poor.

@Mountaindewed and @Yzen and @RoxanneToto - Thank you all for your replies, and I'm sorry you guys struggle with those things, too!

I struggled with those things before this pandemic, so it's hard to tell what could be symptoms of Covid and what could be symptoms of something that's just within me.

I've been quarantining/isolating/shielding/sheltering/or whatever it is called these days (I'm so confused) for almost 2 years (since March 2020). I only go out at odd hours (middle of the night or early early morning) to check mail, get packages from the enclosed package room, dump trash outside, dump recycling outside, and get door deliveries (nonperishables), and I always wear a double-mask when I do so (sometimes just KN95's, other times N95s if on a "bar night" like Thursdays, Fridays, or over the weekend). I will sometimes go out during the daytime to go walking outside or to walk to and from my appointment at the VA, which is about 1.25 miles away (2.5 miles round trip), which gives me exercise and also shields me from any pathogens on public transportation. I wear N95's or N99's while out - I'll double-mask my N95 with a KN95 on top, but I think I'm okay with just a singular N99 (there's a rubber seal inside that really keeps my breath in). I think I'm safe and others are safe around me, too. I only dump trash and all that about 2 times per week. The rest of the weeks, I'm on lockdown.

I've been doing this for almost two years. Initially, I felt like the walls were closing in on me, and that I was trapped and doomed forever - like on house arrest or something. I felt punished.

But then I got used to this life. And now I know that there's freedom to go out when I want to, and that the vaccines and booster are working well enough, though I still go overboard with precautions, cleaning, and distancing. Each of my Winnix air purifiers covers 350 square feet, but I have 7 in my 700 sq ft apartment so that they clean the air more per hour. So far, that works for me. My electricity is only slightly higher, and I clean the washable filters (not the HEPA) every month or more frequently. I will replace the filters every 3 to 4 months, since they get pretty dusty and filled during wildfire season with that gook. I cleaned so much of that wildfire gook off my walls! I can't believe I was breathing that in, though I tend to wear masks in my apartment on really bad wildfire days.

Thankfully, the air is clean now, so this is when I do most of my cleaning.

I think my eye sensitivity is connected because I get migraines with the eye sensitivity. At that point, I can't even stand the computer light. I'm trying to find the settings to dim the computer light. I found it on my cell phone, but it gets brighter again during the day. I wish I could keep it dim 24/7, LOL.
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Default Dec 28, 2021 at 11:21 AM
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I get eye sensitivity with migraines too, I have for many years, I take prescribed triptan medication for it, it works if I take it soon enough. I wish I could say something more helpful but the only thing I’ve found helpful is a darkened room. Avoiding screens and bright lights/TV. Some people find tinted spectacles can help apparently.

It really would be very surprising if it were covid, you’re descriptions of your behaviour is not at all risky and you’re fully vaccinated x3. I do understand what you mean though, it’s hard to know if it’s covid when you get these symptoms all the time.

Having had covid I can say it wasn’t too dissimilar to migraine in parts but the taste and smell loss is the hallmark really -but of course a test would tell you for sure, even a lateral flow test might make you feel reassured. Hope you feel better soon and take care and rest up.
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I still have my taste and smell! I am loving the Lean Cuisine I purchased for contactless door delivery. The shopper delivered my groceries around midnight. That's a long story in and of itself. I was craving Diet Coke and microwavable meals. I loved the taste of the food! I'm not sure what I'd do if I ever lost my taste and smell permanently. I think I'd freak out.

I am pretty sure my symptoms are not Covid. I've had migraines and light sensitivity before - back in 2017 and a few times per year since then. My life kind of went downhill since 2017, so I knew it wasn't fully this pandemic. But this pandemic has slowed my healing and rehabilitation down. I'm almost at the point of just considering my life a disabled/early retirement life with no career at all. I'm just lucky enough to have enough money to live comfortably, if they don't do away with Social Security and Veterans Benefits. My window of rehabilitation is quickly closing.

I'm wondering if people could have side-effects from being exposed to SARS-CoV-2 without having ever contracted COVID-19. The virus may not be a large enough dosage to replicate and turn into a disease (covid), but it may be just enough to cause other symptoms, perhaps - especially if the virus gets into the ears or the eyes. No one has really studied the effects of those things, and how the virus might be able to enter the body that way among masked persons. If they call it an infection instead of disease, I could see it being called SARC2 infection - or something to that effect.
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I’m glad you’re pretty certain you don’t have it. I haven’t read anything about side effects from being exposed to the virus, my own experience was both my husband and son felt completely well and tested negative daily throughout my infection so they weren’t affected at all by being in the home (we live in a small place where we can’t distance) with me. Several of my vaccinated friends families had similar experience, others in the home staying completely well. I suspect the vaccines played a big part in this.

Migraines/light sensitivity can be very tiring and wearing, take good care of yourself and rest up when you can.
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I’m glad you’re pretty certain you don’t have it. I haven’t read anything about side effects from being exposed to the virus, my own experience was both my husband and son felt completely well and tested negative daily throughout my infection so they weren’t affected at all by being in the home (we live in a small place where we can’t distance) with me. Several of my vaccinated friends families had similar experience, others in the home staying completely well. I suspect the vaccines played a big part in this.

Migraines/light sensitivity can be very tiring and wearing, take good care of yourself and rest up when you can.


I think you're right about the vaccines playing a role in preventing infection altogether. My nephew is on leave from the military and with his sister/my niece, who has covid along with her husband. He has to take multiple tests, but so far he has been negative. What my half-sister (mother of my nephew and niece) said to me was that they went to a movie theater unmasked, and so that is likely how they all got covid, except my nephew and my grand nephew (my niece's son). My niece's son is around 10 years old, and he remains unvaccinated, unfortunately. His parents, my niece and her husband, refuse to give him the vaccines. And he has a respiratory disease of some kind, so we're all pretty upset that he's not vaccinated, though I think he is masked, which I think helped him prevent contraction of covid.

I think vaccines and masks work great at preventing covid, or at least severe covid.
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I am blue eyed so we are notorious for light sensitivity. I actually have 4 sets of "rose/pinkish" colored glasses- for indoors and out. Its a life saver.

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I am blue eyed so we are notorious for light sensitivity. I actually have 4 sets of "rose/pinkish" colored glasses- for indoors and out. Its a life saver.
I might try to get some rose/pink glasses. I didn't know they exist. Thank you for that tip, @sarahsweets
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Headaches and Light Sensitive

Headaches and Light Sensitive

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Those are nice! You look so pretty in those photos!
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Those are nice! You look so pretty in those photos!
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Here is just an example. I get mine from the eye doctor because I have dry eye disease.

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Here is just an example. I get mine from the eye doctor because I have dry eye disease.
I like the magenta ones. Hmmm. I might get a pair.
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Those are so cute on you @sarahsweets I got told by my optometrist blue lenses are recommended here too, I haven’t tried them. Yeah my husband is blue eyed and doesn’t get migraines but gets light sensitivity.

@SprinkL3 I hope your family recover soon, my husband was boosted and my son 2x but later than me. I was almost exactly 6 months past my 2nd and they changed eligibility to 3 months past but too late for me. I did very well for 2x though. Some vaccination is better than none however!

I know it’s been a scary time for many but I do believe you’ll be very well protected by your 3x and I hope that this pandemic will end as soon as possible.
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