made it through quals and have at least a year and a half of relative low stress for a PhD. But payment for all of that is that i've been sick since I finished a week ago. 1st I got a migrane which I attributed to being annoyingly menstral. Then on friday that migrane turned into right facial nerve pain which was apparently immune to both over the counter pain killers and my migrane medication (cafergot). That lasted all weekend and now I appear to have a virus of some sort as indicated by the continued facial nerve discomfort, muscle aches, dizzyness, detachment, chills, sweats and just overall unpleasentness.
It's completely unfair that stress depresses the immune system.
It's completely unfair that stress depresses the immune system.
but i have been told that working towards your PhD is akin to torturing yourself for 4 to 6 years. hopefully you will feel better soon.
congrats on qualifying.