Is COVID starting as an intense headache for anyone else?

[Frangate]

I was at a party yesterday evening. It started bad in that I was hungry and there wasn't a sit down meal. It was a buffet and I was drinking so alcohol likely went to my head. However I had an early night too and I was home by 11.30. So I did not have a lot to drink and it was not a late one.

Yet I am dying today. The headache I have. It really feels like 10,00 elephants on my head.

I will hold my hand up and say I am not drinking enough water today either and maybe that is contributing to it.

I am also extremely stressed and I am finding everything so very overwhelming and I am just after having another load of crap dumped on my back for me to sort out and my aging mother seems to think I can pluck some magic out of her hole and piss on the world and fix things. I just can't.

I am dying today. I was around a few people in work mid week who had colds and runny noses and now I am thinking if my headache is more than a hangover.

I am fucking dying.

Honestly? I’ve not heard about this for Covid but I have for the cold that’s going around. It’s a bit of a horror.

Oh god please don’t say that. I’ve had a splitting headache today and shared a taxi with someone on Thursday who has since tested positive for Covid…

There’s a school of thought that says my headache is Christmas stress and I pray that’s the case!

Sorry you’re feeling rough, OP.

I have a headache and DH does too …. I don’t want to be ill over Christmas.

DS has flu A (tested positive on a flu lateral flow test) and it started with a very severe headache, followed by fever, aches, pains, lethargy and vomiting - the whole works. He’s been pretty sick - it’s no joke.

Dehydration will give you a demon headache.

OH cold/COVID/mild flu (who knows these days) has gone on his chest. So he dug out some amoxicillin yesterday morning, that with judicious use of his inhalers is helping.

There's a lot of it about.

Not sure about covid but there's a nasty cold going around my area (that I'm just getting over) that seems to start with a horrible headache. Several people at work have been off sick with it because they couldn't keep their heads up looking at a computer screen

I had covid in October, the memorable thing about it were the horrendous headaches. When I had it the year before it was the sore throat, but this time - god awful headaches.

Did they test for covid though? If not they were probably coming to work thinking they had a cold and giving everyone covid.

@TheRulerofThings a flu lateral flow test? Where from.

I've felt utterly rotten past three days, it couid be worse I'm up today for a little and bed bound awful headache aches felt nauseous deep deep cough etc

I've had covid three times as far as I know, have had a headache every time. My symptoms have been the same each time.

In your case though, it could well be a combination of everything, drinking with very little in your stomach, stress and being dehydrated. Try and take lots of sips of water before bed and if you wake in the night, that can't be a bad thing whatever it is. If you're concerned it's covid, then maybe do a test tomorrow and Tuesday.

@PomandersandRedRibbon They have them in Tesco.

I used a different brand - a combined Covid/Flu test - but I got it in my local pharmacy which doesn’t have a website.

Thank you!! I like to know what I have

Yes I've had cover d several times start like this.

Covid has always given me a filthy headache.

DH and I are fighting so thing off at the moment, but negative for Covid. I've got a bad headache, body aches like I've been beaten up, eyes are heavy, but sleep isn't restful. A bit of a bunged up nose, but no symptoms of an upper respiratory infection tbh.

I’d prefer to have Covid than ‘flu.

Most of us wouldn't know because we haven't tested for Covid for the best part of 4 years! You have listed numerous other reasons for your headache, OP.

First time I had Covid it started with a biggest headache I'd ever had. I thought it was a mega migraine and It was so bad I spent the day in bed sleeping on and off all day and all the next night. The cough started on day two in the evening, tested positive the following day.

I've just had covid then flu directly after it 😳😳 and I didn't get a headache with covid but I had the most horrific headache on the Sunday then by Monday afternoon I had a very high temperature and the works with the flu.

It's been nearly 4 weeks since I got ill first and I'm still not right.

I had covid twice (not recently) and both times it started with a terrible headache, but focused at the lower back of my head. However my daughter has flu at the moment and that started with a bad head.

Each time I’ve had covid I’ve had a horrific headache and I’m never one to have them normally.