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Making a migraine-friendly office
It’s not simple to do your job with a migraine, however there are stuff you and your employer can do to assist. Right here’s tips on how to ask for what you want when coping with migraine assaults at work.
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Know your rights
Migraine assaults which have a severe influence in your skill to perform at work might qualify as a incapacity beneath the People with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA gives authorized office safety for individuals with disabilities.
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Ask for office lodging
Beneath the ADA, individuals who get disabling migraines can ask for “affordable” lodging at work. These would possibly embrace:
- Desk lamps as a substitute of vibrant overhead lights
- Unscented merchandise in worker loos
- Headphones to dam out noise
- Schedule adjustments
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Ask your employer for a versatile schedule
A versatile schedule helps you to prioritize your well being when you find yourself experiencing a migraine assault. Schedule flexibility would possibly appear like:
- Working from residence
- Working half time
- Working outdoors regular workplace hours
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Discuss day off
Verify in with HR about office insurance policies for paid day off and taking a go away of absence. If you already know you’ll want to go away work for normal appointments with a healthcare supplier (HCP), you’ll be able to let HR know.
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Focus on incapacity
Your employer might supply short-term or long-term incapacity insurance coverage, and the federal authorities gives advantages by way of the Social Safety Incapacity Insurance coverage (SSDI) program.
Whether or not your migraine illness is a incapacity is set on a case-by-case foundation. You possibly can work with HR and your HCP to see when you qualify.
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Inventory your workspace
Be sure to have medicines and the rest you would possibly want, like chilly compresses or sun shades, shut at hand so that you’ll be ready in case you have a migraine assault at work.
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Share your story
Until you’ve skilled a migraine assault, it’s exhausting to know how debilitating they are often. Should you’re snug speaking to coworkers about your migraine expertise, share your story.
Elevating consciousness about migraine illness will help construct empathy and provides coworkers perception into how they’ll assist you.
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Know you’re not alone
There is no such thing as a disgrace in struggling to do your job when you find yourself experiencing a migraine assault. Greater than 9 out of 10 individuals with migraine illness aren’t in a position to work or perform usually throughout an assault.
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For extra data
To study extra about migraine illness and the best way it impacts your life at work (and in all places else), go to:
- Affiliation of Migraine Issues
- HealthyWomen
This instructional useful resource was created with assist from Pfizer.
