Need a doctor's note for uni

She could have caught the bus or a cab. The point is in her evidence note she can say that and they can verify she tried to go through official channels, at the moment she just self certified, which is weaker. I would/could have dragged myself there.

Most people go through a pre phase. I can tell when one is coming on. If you have a lot you cna sense hwo your body is changing.
https://www.migrainetrust.org/about-migraine/migraine-what-is-it/symptoms-and-stages/
http://www.achenet.org/resources/migraine_attack_the_four_phases/
https://migraine.com/migraine-basics/migraine-phases/

I would hope so - St John Ambulance volunteers are fully permitted to recognise, medicate and discharge migraines without intervention.

We dont know the situation, so its hard to tell.
We dont know what type of migraine she gets, but she could have rung the GP and if she couldnt get through speak to the nurse or practice manager.

Tbh I would also have rung the lecturer and taken their advice. Contact with lecturer puts them on notice before you miss the exam.

It gives me enough to show I had made an effort.

You seem obssessed with the appointment whereas i think its important to show you were trying to do something., even if you didnt get an appointment that day, then it reads better and also gives you leverage on getting the sick note because you cna get the surgery to make a note of it and the fact they couldnt do same day.

Im only interested in solving the problem and theres plenty you could do to make it easier and increae your chance of a note, then succssful claim for mitigating circumstances..

lol I'm not "obsessed" with the appointment. I just think it's silly to look at so black and white and straight forward, when in reality illness isn't like that.

I didn't know you could get evidence just for asking for an appointment.

She has to write an explanation to the head of department. It has to satisfy him that its genuine and the situation warranted her not coming in.

He either says yes or not so on that basis its absolutely black and white.

Version 1. I had a migraine and was so ill I couldnt make it into uni.

Version 2. I had a migraine and was very worried about missing the exam. I rang my lecturer as i realised I was too ill to come in and she informed me that I would need a Drs note. I then rang the get well surgery to book an emergency appointment, but they had none free, They confirmed that if i was too ill then I should go to bed in a dark room, until the attack had passed. I have a note to support this.

Version 2. I had a migraine and was very worried about missing the exam. I rang my lecturer as i realised I was too ill to come in and she informed me that I would need a Drs note--- Goes to see Dr and gets reprtospective note.

You are trying to follow a pattern of behaviour to show you arent faking it and shying off your exam.

When I said it's not black and white I was talking about the illness itself and whether not not you can get an appointment or if the doctor will give you a retrospective note (and many will not).

The university system is indeed very black and white yes. But that is not what I was talking about.

The whole thread is about the OP needing to get past the mitigating circs test.

Dunno how long your migraines last, but they can be phased and last for an extended amount of time. They normally build, so in the early stages you are more physically capable.

It doesnt matter too much whether you get an appointment or not.
Weve already been over getting a retrospective note if you read the thread. Some will not, but some will. Perseverance and how you are careful in what you ask for make a difference.

Thank you for all the responses. I'm still unsure what to do about this as submitting a form with no evidence seems a waste of time, so I'm not sure whether to reply to my lecturer saying I won't be submitting a form and will accept a zero. I'm only first year so 5% won't affect me much.

I did email in the morning before the practical, but as the practical ran for the whole day with different groups, the lecturer didn't respond until after 4pm telling me I need to do the form which is too late in the day to book an appointment.

I rang my doctor's surgery the next day and they said that they don't do retrospective sick notes and I need to self-certify for the first 7 days of an illness. They won't do a letter as it's not on my medical records and that would have taken two weeks to do anyway (past the dead line). They also said you can't make an appointment every time you get a migraine, you treat it with over-the-counter meds.

What do you recommend I do? Submit a form with no evidence, email my lecturer or do nothing and assume it all is forgotten about and I just get a zero. I'm in the midst of exams and assignment deadlines and I just don't have the mental capacity to stress over this at the moment.

Thank you for all the responses. I'm still unsure what to do about this as submitting a form with no evidence seems a waste of time, so I'm not sure whether to reply to my lecturer saying I won't be submitting a form and will accept a zero. I'm only first year so 5% won't affect me much.

I did email in the morning before the practical, but as the practical ran for the whole day with different groups, the lecturer didn't respond until after 4pm telling me I need to do the form which is too late in the day to book an appointment.

I rang my doctor's surgery the next day and they said that they don't do retrospective sick notes and I need to self-certify for the first 7 days of an illness. They won't do a letter as it's not on my medical records and that would have taken two weeks to do anyway (past the dead line). They also said you can't make an appointment every time you get a migraine, you treat it with over-the-counter meds.

What do you recommend I do? Submit a form with no evidence, email my lecturer or do nothing and assume it all is forgotten about and I just get a zero. I'm in the midst of exams and assignment deadlines and I just don't have the mental capacity to stress over this at the moment.

I wouldn't trust a SJA volunteer to put a plaster on properly.

That depends on the volunteer. Over half my unit works in a healthcare setting, plenty of people are student paras/nurses (though there's no slide for that, so it only shows as 'first aider'. We get easily an hour's training on correct plaster application.

Again, people who shouldn't really be diagnosing or 'medicating' (beyond paracetamol) anyone.

First aid volunteers are great at performing bystander chest compressions before an ambulance arrives, but that's about it really.

I personally would feel uncomfortable writing a retrospective sick note. And I do feel as though it's a waste of resources having to pander to a university that is being awkward rather than treating its students like adults.

A 3rd year student para isn't qualified to diagnose something simple and make a decision to discharge/refer/transport? Yet an ambulance tech (with 12 weeks training) is?

Yes I know what the thread is about.

Usually around 12 hours. NOt everyone's builds and not everyone is physically capable in the early stages and we have no idea if the OP was so it's pointless continuing to assert that "most" people are. OP may not have been.

Depends on your universities system. Yes I have read the thread, and the fact that some will not give a note is part of the problem. Especially if your uni system is so black and white that if there is no note then that's it case closed you were lying no extenuating circumstances granted regardless of how much you try to show you weren't (yes some are like this).

Yes that makes a difference but again university policy makes this difficult yet again, in order to get a retrospective note you need to make an appointment to get one from your GP. And then if that GP refuses to give a note you have to make yet another appointment with a different GP. Making these appointments and trying to get these notes takes time, and pretty much every uni system for mitigating circumstances has a time cap on when you can gather the evidence. At my uni that time cap is 5 days. Which presents a problem if you simply cannot get an appointment with your GP to ask for a note within that time frame....which as I said before is likely when a lot of GPs are so over prescribed some people are waiting more than a week for appointments for non emergent issues.