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Does COVID-19 Infection & Vaccination Amplify Migraines?

by Hemalatha Manikandan on Oct 5 2023 2:20 PM
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Does COVID-19 Infection & Vaccination Amplify Migraines?
The COVID-19 infection and its vaccination have very little impact on the intensity of migraines. This new research was published in the ‘European Journal of Neurology'.

COVID Infection and its Vax Does not Worsen Migraine

People who perceived that their migraines worsened, and those who had been infected were 2.5 times more likely to be concerned about migraine worsening. Patients who had been vaccinated were 17.3 times more likely to have this concern (1 Trusted Source
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Vaccines and vaccine safety

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The research was conducted among 550 adults who had received migraine-related care at a Spanish headache clinic. About 44.9 percent (247) patients reported COVID at least once and 83.3 percent (458) had been vaccinated; 24.7 percent (61) reported their migraine worsening since contracting COVID and 11.4 percent (52) since vaccination.

When investigators examined patients’ e-diary information, they observed no significant difference in headache frequency one month before and after infection or vaccination, even when comparing patients with and without self-reported migraine worsening.

“In the case of COVID-19, we reported previously that indeed headache is a frequent and disabling symptom of the infection; yet, it may not necessarily be linked to an increase in migraine frequency,” said the researchers from Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain.

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  1. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Vaccines and vaccine safety - (https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/coronavirus-disease-(covid-19)-vaccines)

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