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Making a migraine-friendly office
It’s not straightforward 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 critical impression in your capability to perform at work might qualify as a incapacity underneath the Individuals with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA provides authorized office safety for folks with disabilities.
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Ask for office lodging
Below the ADA, individuals who get disabling migraines can ask for “cheap” lodging at work. These may embrace:
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Desk lamps as an alternative of brilliant overhead lights
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Unscented merchandise in worker bogs
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Headphones to dam out noise
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Schedule adjustments
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Ask your employer for a versatile schedule
A versatile schedule allows you to prioritize your well being when you’re experiencing a migraine assault. Schedule flexibility may appear like:
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Speak about day off
Test in with HR about office insurance policies for paid day off and taking a depart of absence. If you already know you’ll want to depart work for normal appointments with a healthcare supplier (HCP), you may let HR know.
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Focus on incapacity
Your employer might provide short-term or long-term incapacity insurance coverage, and the federal authorities provides advantages via the Social Safety Incapacity Insurance coverage (SSDI) program.
Whether or not your migraine illness is a incapacity is determined on a case-by-case foundation. You possibly can work with HR and your HCP to see in case you qualify.
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Inventory your workspace
Be sure to have medicines and the rest you may want, like chilly compresses or sun shades, shut at hand so that you’ll be ready when you have a migraine assault at work.
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Share your story
Until you’ve skilled a migraine assault, it’s onerous to know how debilitating they are often. In the event you’re snug speaking to coworkers about your migraine expertise, share your story.
Elevating consciousness about migraine illness might help construct empathy and provides coworkers perception into how they’ll help you.
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Know you’re not alone
There isn’t any disgrace in struggling to do your job when you’re experiencing a migraine assault. Greater than 9 out of 10 folks with migraine illness aren’t capable of work or perform usually throughout an assault.
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For extra info
To study extra about migraine illness and the way in which it impacts your life at work (and in all places else), go to:
This instructional useful resource was created with help from Pfizer.
