Migraines don't necessarily mean a headache
that's a rookie mistake in skiving, as is putting on an ill voice when you call in.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 12:03, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I have a different technique
I make every effort to go into work if I'm ill, and on several occasions have been sent home. That way, everyone knows I'm not skiving. If I'm really ill, I take time off. That sometimes happens.

But it also means that if I do skive for a bit, everyone assumes I'm really ill...
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 12:07, Reply)

This is true.
I usually get a 30 minute headache warning when my sight starts to go. It'll start like when someone takes a picture and the flash stays in your sight for a few seconds. I'll realise that I'm reading something but I can't see the actual word in front of me, just the ones either side of it. Then I lose my peripheral vision, I can wave a hand at the side of my head and not see it. That's when I know I need to go and find a dark room and try and get to sleep before the headache arrives. Although having said that, sometimes it's a false alarm and I just lose my sight for a few hours. It always surprises me how bad I am at navigating around my flat when I can't see, you'd think I would know it well enough by now.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 12:36, Reply)