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Making a migraine-friendly office
It’s not simple to do your job with a migraine, however there are belongings you and your employer can do to assist. Right here’s learn 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 affect in your capability to operate at work might qualify as a incapacity underneath the People with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA affords 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 embrace:
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Desk lamps as an alternative of shiny 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 if you end up experiencing a migraine assault. Schedule flexibility would possibly seem like:
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Discuss break day
Verify in with HR about office insurance policies for paid break day and taking a go away of absence. If you realize you’ll want to go away work for normal appointments with a healthcare supplier (HCP), you possibly can let HR know.
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Talk about incapacity
Your employer might provide short-term or long-term incapacity insurance coverage, and the federal authorities affords advantages by way of 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’ll be able to work with HR and your HCP to see in case you qualify.
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Inventory your workspace
Ensure you have drugs and anything you would possibly 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
Except you’ve skilled a migraine assault, it’s exhausting to grasp how debilitating they are often. For those who’re comfy speaking to coworkers about your migraine expertise, share your story.
Elevating consciousness about migraine illness may also help construct empathy and provides coworkers perception into how they will help you.
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Know you’re not alone
There is no such thing as a disgrace in struggling to do your job if you end up experiencing a migraine assault. Greater than 9 out of 10 folks with migraine illness aren’t capable of work or operate usually throughout an assault.
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For extra info
To be taught extra about migraine illness and the best way it impacts your life at work (and in every single place else), go to:
This academic useful resource was created with help from Pfizer.
