Well, Readers, one of the many unexpected gifts of my fine Italian virus is that it has made my hair hurt. Not my actual hair of course (which is dead) but every single individual follicle, which is just as bad. And today I am feeling very slightly better, so I thought I’d see if this was a ‘thing’.

Yay! It’s known as cutaneous allodynia, and relates to a sudden extreme sensitisation of the peripheral nerves. It’s known in Covid and after other viral infections,  and Shingles is a form of Allodynia. Fortunately I don’t have Shingles, and I’m going to test for Covid again in a second (my first test came in negative).

Has anyone else ever had sore hair? I would really like to be able to brush my hair again without wincing.

Fortunately it usually sorts itself out once the infection clears, so fingers crossed. Alas, this bug is hanging around as long as an irritating Casanova. Fingers crossed I’ll soon have kicked it into the Grand Canal.