Healthline BIPOC Migraine Roundtable

How to Get Better Migraine Care: Tips and Tools for BIPOC Communities

“Namira Islam Anani is a human rights lawyer based in Detroit who went to see a neurologist after a bout of COVID-19 had her swapping and slurring words. It was this neurologist who finally led her to a migraine diagnosis.

‘At the time, my primary care doctor and other specialists I was seeing for COVID symptoms — nobody connected it,’ she said.

Anani had found it difficult to get a COVID-19 test at the time because her body temperature didn’t qualify as a fever. ‘I’m like listen, for South Asians, a lot of us don’t run that hot,’ she said.

Research backs her up: Conditions don’t present identically in everyone. A 2021 studyTrusted Source found that assumptions around ‘normal’ body temperature can result in the failure to diagnose a severe fever in people with COVID-19.”