Little backstory: I have Chronic Daily Migraine and have had the diagnosis for 4 years. It took my an extra year to complete high school due to me having to take a full year out of actual school and try my best at online(hard to do when you become even more light sensitive than normal during a bad day). I just completed my first year of college but was given an academic suspension because of my GPA. I registered with the disability office at my college as soon as I could and was given special permissions to be able to miss more classes than normal and special housing. I am fighting for them to appeal the decision and allow me to come back in the fall. I was in the ER 3 times in 5 weeks at the end of the spring semester. As well as more times during my very first semester.

Now the venting: After speaking to the admissions office at my college I was advised that it is very rare for them to approve of the type of appeal I am asking for unless there have been extenuating circumstances and I am hoping that my ER visits as well as the records with the college disability office will be enough. But I am so sick of being told to go home or take time off due to my “limitations”! I had a professor my first semester who called a meeting after I missed three classes to talk about what was going on and she told me to leave the college and go home. I have been advised many times to “just put it on pause for now, just until better treatment comes out”. I go get Botox for my migraines every 12 weeks and until last Thursday that was the best treatment available and what worked the best for me along with my other daily preventive and occasional acute meds for when my migraines got bad. I’m rambling at this point but I am so sick of being told to put my life on hold or to give up just because I have “limitations”. I hate that word: limitations. I hate feeling like I’m looked at with pity or like I’m not as capable as others or sometimes worse like I’m just being dramatic... but at the same time I feel ready to give up and keep trying. I’m hoping someone here will understand..