Greetings. I am a new user since I stumbled over this and I figured maybe there will be other people with similar problems and we might be able to help each other out.

I am 24 and have had chronic Migraines for 6 years now. And not just a migraine every so often, I mean one everyday for 6 yeas. And those of you out there know it's not an easy thing having one, let alone one for this long.

Though I do admit that it changes in intensity, so for the most part I can deal with it, but there are those days where I want to do little besides curl into a ball and hide from the world.

That is my question. How can I tell people and make them understand about my headaches without being fired from my job due to occasional really bad days? I had to stay home today just because I was literally blinded by my headaches and couldn't do anything. I literally had someone else push in the buttons to call in for work since I was so light sensitive even the mild cell phone light hurt my eyes and rendered me blind.

Well, it wasn't blind blind can't see... more like even a tiny bit of light rendered my headache so bad I couldn't see... Kind of migraine. I have only gotten this rarely, maybe like four times total, but I still had to miss work for it.

How can I explain to someone that this can happen when ever and where ever? And can last for days, or be over in an instant? How can you inform an employer that you have no control over this and can't help it? And no matter what doctor I go visit too, I can't exactly get a doctors note for missing long periods of work with something that can't be physically located by any type of medical equipment. I did Cat Scans, MRI's, and all that. But it doesn't show up at all. And I've done so much meds that it isn't even funny anymore. Which they never help anyway.

I'm just worried that my bosses will eventually grow tired of my 'so called migraines' and I'm out of a job since I am absent ever so often.

Any suggestions? I could use some.

Thank you ahead of time.

~Toki