Yvonne wrote: My boss is telling me to just get my mind off the headache and go away, but it's not quite that easy. The best cure seems for me to go home and get to sleep. I'm interested in hearing how others handle migraines at work and if their boss gets angry when you have to leave. Sometimes I can deal with it at work, but other times I just have to leave. Anyone else? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Yvonne, I am mostly a lurker, too. ( Several of us seem to be coming out of lurkdom lately). But this comment of yours hit a nerve. I have had migraines for 25 years and almost always I wake up with them in full bloom. For years I took Cafergot, (and Tigan for nausea) and hated it. But it usually made the migraine ease and between the two of them I was able to make it to work, although I of course, felt like someone had beaten me. I ached all over and I swear I could FEEL blood vessels breaking. And of course, over the years it became less and less effective and rebounds began to happen. Then Imitrex became available and I hounded the doctor until I got it. It was a real relief for me. But since I woke up with them I had to take it and lay down for a half hour or so to let it do it's thing. I explained this to my boss ( whose wife was a nurse so he thought he was a medical expert ). And, we had flex-time so I thought everything was going to be fine. However, at EVERY yearly evaluation he brought up how he had NO PROBLEM with my being late on the days that I had a migraine. But his attitude was that I should be grateful that he was so understanding. Mind you, they never paid me for a minute of time off due to a migraine. I either made up the time or if I had to miss a half day or a full day I used vacation time. The only sick time I ever turned it was for the strep or influenza I had. I even had awards for perfect attendence. He assured me that I did not need to worry about him holding this against me, but I did not want this on my written record. At the end of March our department was ordered ( as part of a company-wide downsizing of 2500 ) to cut two people. I was one of them. After 21 years at the same place I was out. In the last year the pressure at work was soooo great that no matter what I took as a preventative nothing really worked and I was having two to three migraines a week. Since I left that hellhole I have had only two migraines in TEN WEEKS! and that during a time when I had NO JOB....a litlle bit of stress in itself, I believe. I consider this the best thing that has happened to me in years. No matter what a boss will tell you, they do NOT understand!! Thanks for letting me vent, guys! Ellen Akron, OHIO