Coping when at work

There's only one more hour left in the day, and I've had a migraine since last night. It's on the right side of my head, so I know it's one that will last a few days. I am on rescue medication, Relpax and Zomig, but I'm out of both and don't have the money to pick up my refills. I took my last Zomig this morning before I came to work, but it only works part of the time. Relpax is a godsend, but with a prescription of 9 pills costing $56, it gets very expensive when you sometimes get 3-4 migraine episodes a week.

I've been at my current job only since October, and don't want to be known as one of those who has to leave all the time due to "headaches", so I'm sitting in my cubie with my sunglasses on.   This is the dilemma that I face living with migraine. 

The good thing is that I'm a librarian, so it's reasonably quiet at work. The bad thing is that the migraine disease is so poorly understood, so that I feel that I have to stay and suffer when I should be home or in the ER.

I know I'm not alone with this disease, but sometimes it feels as though I am. My husband tries to be supportive and understand what I go through, but can someone really understand if one they've never experienced the kind of pain that an episode can bring?