Q: If you are suffering from a serious migraine, take time off from work. Some people may not consider migraines a big deal, but most people will understand that it's a serious health condition. Talk to your boss and your colleagues to make sure that they understand your condition.  If you have migraine too often at work, try to reduce triggers. Keep your stress low, try to manipulate the lights to a more comfortable, make sure you bring snacks in case your blood sugar drops, and schedule break times.  If it isn't possible for your to take time off of work, try to take a break and go to a quiet conference room or break room. Make sure you keep some form of pain relief with you at work at all times in case you get one and you can't leave.  Getting a doctor's note may help if your workplace is not understanding about your situation. Bright lights, sometimes even moderate lights, and noise trigger or worsen migraines. During a migraine, most sufferers are also extremely sensitive to light and noise. When you get a migraine, sit in a dark, quiet room until your symptoms ease. The removal of those external factors should help decrease their severity. Migraines are often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. Over the counter anti-nausea or anti-diarrheal drugs may help relieve these symptoms. You may find, however, that allowing yourself to purge may help your migraine go away faster.  If this is the case, avoid taking these drugs unless absolutely necessary. Vomiting, or just hard dry heaving, can often bring a migraine to a climax after which the discomfort subsides. Migraine can be triggered by dehydration. Once a migraine starts, try to drink some water to see if it helps ease the symptoms. Dehydration can get worse if you are vomiting or have diarrhea, so make sure you are replacing any fluids lost. Stay away from other drinks that might cause your symptoms to get worse. You can try a sports drink because they help you replace electrolytes. Once a migraine starts, apply an ice pack to the painful area for 15 – 20 minutes. This can help numb the painful areas. If the symptoms come back once you take it off, wait a little while for your skin to warm back up and then repeat.  It may also be helpful to ice the back of your neck.   Make sure you wrap the ice in a towel so you don't damage your skin with the cold. Some people find that taking a hot shower or using a heat pack relieves their symptoms. This helps relieve the tension in your muscles, which is a main cause of migraines. When you have a migraine, try to take a nap. The rest and reduction of external stimulation often lessens the severity of the migraine or helps it go away all together. Having a migraine may make it difficult to sleep, but attempt to sleep if you can. Another positive aspect of a nap is that you're sleeping, you're not as aware of your pain.  Simply lying down may help, although some migraine sufferers find that lying down makes the pain worse. Kneading the face, head, shoulders, back, and neck may relieve the symptoms in some people. It helps release tension in your muscles and helps your relax. It isn't effective for everyone, but studies have shown that is can help lessen the severity of the symptoms and even help you get them less often. Acupuncture has been found to help some migraine sufferers. Small studies suggest that it can ease migraine pain and help reduce the occurrence of additional headaches. Despite its helpfulness, most doctors suggest that you continue other treatments in conjunction with such treatments. Some small studies have found that lavender can reduce migraine pain.Take pure lavender oil, which can be bought from a herb, health food, or supplement store, and rub a little on the spots that hurt or massage it into your temples. You can also use an oil burner to permeate the air with the scent. Ginger and peppermint oil may also be helpful. This can occur following the pain stage of a migraine, almost like a migraine hangover. You may experience weakness, mood change, tiredness, or difficulty concentrating. If you find yourself experiencing these symptoms, you may need more time to recover, or you may want to put off work or activities that require a lot of energy or mental power.
A: Take time off to take care of your health. Get to a dark, quiet place. Treat nausea or diarrhea if present. Stay hydrated. Apply an ice pack. Take a nap. Massage yourself. Try acupuncture. Use lavender oil. Be aware of the migraine postdrome.

Q: If you forgot some type of worksheet or essential assignment sheet, call up a friend. Ask if you can borrow their worksheet for a few minutes. Then take the worksheet to a nearby office supply store and have it photocopied.  If you have a scanner and printer or a copy machine, you can complete this task at home. Most printing places charge $0.10 for a single black and white copy. If you do not have access to a copy machine, or do not have a ride to your friend’s house, you can ask them to take a picture of the worksheet or scan it and send it to you by text or email. If you can’t print it out, you can copy it by hand using your best handwriting. Does your school use an online platform to post assignments and grades? If so, it is possible your teacher posted a copy of this worksheet to that page. Log in, look for the name of this assignment or the chapter it corresponds to, and locate the worksheet. Print it out at home. If the worksheet was produced by the company who made your textbook, you can likely locate a copy of it online. Search by the publisher, textbook title, and subject matter or chapter you are working on. Locate a PDF of the worksheet and print it out at home. Often times, your teacher will have an electronic copy of the worksheet that they can send to you. Email your teacher right away and request a copy of the worksheet.   Be sure to use clear grammar, complete sentences, and good etiquette in your email. You can only use this method once or twice before your teacher will become frustrated with you. Your teacher may be less than pleased that you don’t have the worksheet if you’ve had an extended period of time to complete it rather than if it was assigned that day.
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Photocopy a friend’s worksheet for an easy solution. Look on the website for your course, if applicable. Find a PDF of the worksheet online if possible. Email your teacher as a last resort.