If you have, or have ever had migraines, then you understand exactly what I'm talking about. Most people get small headaches that last maybe five minutes and then its gone, but then there are those of us who wake up and go to sleep with terrible migraines that makes it hard to move, look at light, or function properly but no matter if you're a student in school, or a working man/woman having a migraine is not an excuse.

For myself having a migraine has become a norm, a part of every day life that I have learned to deal with, but there are still days when I can't roll over because I'm in so much pain, it feels as if someone is bashing my head in, maybe worse. But yet I can't tell my teacher that I couldn't make it to class today because I had a migraine, to them a migraine is just a headache and I'm just a whiny student looking for an excuse. "No doctors visit, no excuse." Now imagine going to the doctor and telling them about your migraines, you would think being in the medical field they would understand, but of course not. They also look at you as if you're being dramatic.

Something these teachers and doctors don't understand is that yes there are people out there who call slight headaches excruciating migraines and use it as an excuse not to go to work, or school, or take care of their children but the majority of people who actually do suffer from chronic migraines or a disease, or illness that causes migraines don't do that. We look at it as something that could hinder us, but we won't let it. Someone who has cancer won't use it as an excuse every day, instead they will try and rise above it, and live life even though they may be in pain. And no, I'm not saying migraines are just like cancer but it's kind of the same concept. I've had a migraine every second of every day for the last year or so and I've been to multiple doctors and tried a million different kinds of medicine to no avail and so now I just live with it, and in spite of it.

For those of you who aren't sure whether what you're having is a migraine or a headache chances are it's the latter. When having a migraine your eyes feel like at any moment they could leave your skull and you wonder if that would even be a bad thing because then you wouldn't have to see the light. You beg your eardrums to just go ahead and burst because the slightest sound of a pin dropping sounds like a freight train running through your mind. You wonder how in the world you'll be able to read a computer screen, or the tiny writing on the papers you have to file, or look into that microscope during your lab, but then you remember that you have no choice because if you aren't throwing up, bleeding, or dying no one really cares , do they?