Without making any noise, severe migraine ax careers: two thirds of patients are affected in their work. For fear of being misunderstood or closet, many employees keep their pathology in them.
When she passes the door of a new business for her very first day of work, Estelle* knows that she has no choice. Passing the presentations of use, the discovery of his office and the user manual of the coffee maker, he will quickly have to go to the point: “Find a trusted person who speaks to me if I have to leave.” Since she was a teenager, this event manager has suffered from violent migraines accompanied by neurological signs called «will have”. A “time bomb” Regularly disgusted without warning, especially during stressful periods, with numbness on one side of the face, vomiting and loss of speech – “I say a word for another. It comes out like that, without I realizing it ”. A real ordeal in unknown professional terrain. “As soon as it happens, all I can do is take a Triptan and let go to immerse myself in the dark. This can last up to 13, 14 hours “testifies the 27 -year -old woman. Despite the magnitude of the problem, she never talked about any of her employers. “I often said to myself” if they discover it, I’m going to look crazy “.”