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Her husband, Jesse Trucks, also sustained a TBI from sports injuries
and, like his wife, had been vaccinated four months before getting
COVID-19. He also developed a headache, which he described as
distinct from those resulting from his brain injury. “The pain of the
COVID headache was like when the dentist’s drill hits a nerve,” he
says. While his headaches typically form a band around the front of
his head, his COVID headache instead parked itself at the base of his
neck and the back of his head, lasting for 10 days.
The headaches reported by people with acute COVID fall into three
main categories, according to Jennifer Frontera, a neurologist at New
York University’s Grossman School of Medicine: migraine-like,
tension-type, and daily persistent headaches. Each of these
correspond to types of headache diagnoses that already exist.
In one study of more than 900 COVID patients, their headache lasted
a median 14 days, but one in five patients still had it three months
later; one in six patients had it nine months later. The worse the
headache was during acute infection, the longer people were likely to
have it.
“It felt like a sinus headache met a migraine,” Johansen says. “It
lasted for about four days, and once it set in, it was solidly parked—no
ebbs and flows, just continuous ache.” Though she took
acetaminophen, she said it didn’t do much.
Travis Littlechilds, a systems analyst who lives in London, has had his
COVID headache most days for the past four months. His headache
during active infection was similar to a migraine, he says, “but extra
sensitive to pressure.” Bending over or coughing was particularly
painful. Though his headaches have become less severe, their quality
is roughly the same: strong pressure directly in the back of his head
that feels worse with movement.
Those most likely to develop a long COVID headache are people who
had a history of headaches, who experienced a headache as their first
symptom, whose COVID headache lasted longer than the rest of their
COVID symptoms or whose headache didn’t respond to pain
medications. Those with post-COVID headaches tend to respond well
to the migraine medications amitriptyline and nortriptyline, Frontera
says.