me too. Any work is flexible about WHEN i can make up the time. So far, i have been able to keep up, except surgery recovery was taken as short term disability.
At the worst of my conditions I had to skip a semester and a half of high school… I couldn’t bare to be getting up and going to school for 6 hours. I did fall behind but did graduate on time with a college acceptance despite my counselor thinking I would need continuation school. Moral of the story I get how hard it can be to fall behind, but believe in yourself. You can do it, you are not limited to your conditions/illnesses.
Had to quit my job because I could not get past daily panic attacks and intense brain fog. One random Saturday at work I had a panic attack and 4 months later I haven’t recovered uet
Some days are easier than others... obviously.
Other days, I wake up and everything says no.
Sometimes I'm smart enough to recognize my symptoms, and then I can tell my boss Hey imma need a day off this week.
In the past when my disease wasnt under control I often needed to take a week or even two off. Now my MS is pretty much stable but I do have those days when I wake up and I'm in so much pain -mental or physical and sometimes both. Therefore I take a day off from time to time, but I try not to take too many.
I try not to take too many days off but because I work from the office sometime I have to take a day off because I can't sit in front if my desk even if I take painkillers.
I’m retired too. Sometimes because of anxiety and depression I don’t leave the house for an entire week it really freaks me out. i’m trying to get out of the house no matter what I do even if it’s something simple just for my sanity!
Hello 🤗 Can you tell me more about being in a union? I’ve heard of them but never knew how to get started. I’m in Arizona, which is a “ Right-to-Work“ state. How would that come in to play?
Same with me. Unfortunately, my fiancé is battling cancer and so I’m working 2 jobs, now. I try not to complain but my body does shit down quickly. Let’s all pray for one another. Much love & peace.
1-2 days, i've been lucky to have a job this year that lets me take the time off that i need, but it's definitely more difficult in other jobs that are more demanding. my job is over now so i'm looking for others that don't require a lot of long term standing because that's one of my biggest difficulties and hopefully it'll aid in me taking less days off
I am such a mess! I quit my full time job because I just wasn't emotionally stable enough. Im in college and my grades are horrible. I was in therapy while I worked but now I can't afford it so now I'm on here.
I currently do jobs where I make my own schedule so that I can take the time I need, bc when I work normal jobs where I'm around more ppl I get sick so easy
You wanna know what is so funny to me??? My job accused me of faking my symptoms and just being lazy when I was actually literally dying, while pregnant; I'm technically on maternity leave so I can return at any time. When my partner returned to work (we work at the same place) everyone was asking about me, the baby, and if I'd be returning. I'm still debating because I still have medical problems that are potentially dangerous toy life.
Scared I’m about to lose my job for this. I’ve had COVID twice in the last 5 months, and took a week off to go to the psych ward. My mom was also really sick in the winter and I was her primary caregiver.
I regularly have to go home early because of my migraines getting to the point where I can barely think straight, let alone get my work done. Unfortunately my job has a point system, so I can only do this so many times. Sometimes I'll try my absolute hardest to power through a shift just so I can avoid getting a point.
I hide my illness from nearly everyone so I usually go in to work even if I feel like garbage. I might end up being absolutely unproductive but at least they can't say I'm too lazy to come to work!
I will take off for doctor's appointments, and I tend to have a lot of those so I feel like they know something is up
I work in healthcare and have never taken a sick day thus far (besides COVID). They make us use our PTO, so I just fight through my daily variety of symptoms. But I’m in chronic pain and I’m exhausted 😣
I did the same exact thing I’m not sure what it is though but I’ve been getting sicker every year in school and I and my parents don’t know why I dropped out before I turned into a senior and im planning on taking a ged and I wanna go to art school after
I was raised unhealthy and to work no matter what just keep your distance and I'm in a trade that demands the same, it can take a toll to say the least😅
funny to see this today when i’m currently at home on a sick day, lol!! i’m doing better this year but last year i missed weeks of school at a time because i could barely move from my bed. it was a nightmare. hoping i can start living again this year.
I rarely take a sick day. Maybe 1x a year. All my hurt and anxiety are kept inside. As for the physical pain. People at work see it, but I make due. I have no choice
ive almost been fired because of my attendance due to my mental health :,) my bosses dont really understand my conditions and have been really dismissive the entire 8 months ive worked there. i started at full time but ended up having to drop down to part time just because of the strain it put on me 😥
i meant to click the last one ;; i mean, i help a couple ladies from time to time and i sell stuff on ebay,, but that’s really it i don’t think i can ever handle a real job to be honest
I technically just took all but one day this past week. Two of those days were scheduled PTO and I likely would have had to call them off anyway. That’s the first time I’ve had to miss that many days consecutively for my chronic illnesses. Typically it is in the range of 2-4 days a month. I’ve been blessed with a wonderful employer that understands, despite being short staffed. I start a new job next week in the same field, with a similar organization and I’m hoping they’ll be as understanding.
I've masked so well that I only call out during seasonal changes twice a year so people know that during those times yes I'm actually sick. The rest of the year I'm trying to grin and bear it...
I just got through telling my husband that I was sick enough 6 days last month to not take any of my medicine. I work at home. And I work through most sick days or pain. But some days I just can't do much of anything. My whole body just says nope. I end up staying in bed all day on those days.
I generally end up needing a day off every couple weeks, but I don't always take it because my supervisors seem so aggravated with me every time I call in. They know I'm disabled, but all they care about is having to find coverage, and sometimes it's just easier to come in and try to do the bare minimum just to get through the day. It's led to pretty severe burnout and I've lost many jobs due to reaching a breaking point that leaves me physically unable to make myself go back into work for a few weeks until I have to find a new job.
I honestly feel sick every single day some days more than others. So honestly I feel like I probably should get more sick days than I take but I'm a college student so I can't always afford taking a day off.
i’ve had to miss class 5 times already this month because of how bad my mental health is getting. i’m honestly so mad at myself but i can’t always bring myself to get out of bed
I've pretty much run out of vacation time for the year calling in due to tension headaches. I've been making myself go in anyway since I'm trying to save the day and a half I have left for the holidays. Fingers crossed I can push through
question, are your tension headaches possibly really migraines? The true test is trying a triptans (or other migraine treatment med, not precetative maintenance med). If it takes away your headache, it was a migraine. It doesnt take away the pain of a tension headache.
I’m just now recovering from a wave of a virus that I am certainly positive was another Acute bronchial stage kicking in—the doctors at my local university didn’t even screen me for an Influenza test after I told them my roommate outright told me they had the flu! I was furious. They gave me unlabeled steroids so I cannot even look at what it counteracts with, and now that I’m finally recovering I am so afraid to reintegrate because a lot of other people are getting sick randomly too! Masking season is a constant for me. 😵💫
Due to my extra anxiety It can often make me physically ill. Iv had to take off 1 to 2 days a month. Honestly I'm scared my job will eventually let me go due to this. That also causes my anxiety to be bad.
I miss out on school and work so much due to my depression and anxiety. My body wants to quit it all and take a long break to heal but my mind won’t let me because I’ll feel like a failure.
I can’t afford to take days off which in turn makes my health worse which makes me need to spend more money to be able to afford treatment but to do that I need to work more. It’s an awful cycle.
I've taken one sick day in six months and it counted against my overall attendance... No sick time until December 😬 haha. Wish I could, feels like I'm wearing myself into the ground sometimes
I took a lot or really needed to take a lot while I was working, due to my health and my step dads health I quit my day job in may and have been doordashing. It’s nice cause I can stop when I need to and there isn’t any management threatening to fire me but man does it not provide a stable income.
The last job I had didn't want to give me time to go to physical therapy for tendonitis I developed while working there. So when I got sick March 2020 and took time off, I didn't go back...
My conditions paired with my personal life/routines I already have make it about impossible to find a job. Employers find out I can't work weekends or evenings, and that I'm looking for 3 days/20 hours a week with a set schedule and then they either straight out say no you're not a good fit or I never hear back/get an interview. Been searching for months and the one thing I find that would fit and I fail the entry exam 🤦🏼♀️
If you're in America and you have a car, try Amazon Flex. You pick shifts that you want to on the days that you want and there's no interview process. I wouldn't have a job if not for this.
Chronic knee pain doesn't just affect 1 knee. it affects both of your knees, your ankles, and your hips. sometimes i wonder if its making my back worse. When i was working it was the most pain i had ever been in. and nobody thought it was serious because im young. I had to quit because of it.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t take days off at my last two jobs because I’m in an at-will employment state and risked being fired for a bogus reason.
My current workplace is amazing, though, and I can request days off ahead of time to give future me time to recover. And if I’m struggling a lot a day I’m there, they let me go sit in the back or in the bathroom as much as I can (time depends on if I’m the only mgmt there at the time). If I absolutely positively cannot go in, the other super or ASM covers for me, and if *they* can’t, the DSM allows us to close early or open late or whatever it has to be. (It’s rare for that to happen, so he’s usually fine with it.) I’m soooo incredibly lucky now.
I wish this is what it will be like in my future profession, but at least I have this for now. 😌
I study right now. I'm dreading going into the world of work with my condition because I need breaks and some days I just can't get out of bed from pain. I'm afraid I'll lose my job or something.
I'm a full time carer for my brother but when I was working full-time I had so many sick days because of being in hospital due to my conditions being affected by pmemonai and not being ready to go back for a long time then was made redundant anyway 😔
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