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Making a migraine-friendly office
It’s not straightforward to do your job with a migraine, however there are belongings you and your employer can do to assist. Right here’s how you can 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 influence in your capacity to operate at work might qualify as a incapacity beneath the Individuals with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA presents authorized office safety for folks with disabilities.
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Ask for office lodging
Underneath the ADA, individuals who get disabling migraines can ask for “affordable” lodging at work. These would possibly embody:
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Desk lamps as a substitute of brilliant overhead lights
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Unscented merchandise in worker loos
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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 helps you to prioritize your well being when you find yourself experiencing a migraine assault. Schedule flexibility would possibly appear to be:
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Discuss day off
Test in with HR about office insurance policies for paid day off and taking a depart of absence. If you realize you’ll want to depart work for normal appointments with a healthcare supplier (HCP), you may let HR know.
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Talk about incapacity
Your employer might supply short-term or long-term incapacity insurance coverage, and the federal authorities presents advantages via 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 may work with HR and your HCP to see in case you qualify.
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Inventory your workspace
Be sure you have drugs and anything 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 onerous to grasp 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 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 folks with migraine illness aren’t in a position to work or operate usually throughout an assault.
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For extra data
To be taught extra about migraine illness and the best way it impacts your life at work (and all over the place else), go to:
This academic useful resource was created with assist from Pfizer.
