MigraSens is a tracking and research-matching platform. It does not diagnose, treat or prescribe. Get study alerts
MigraSens turns scattered headache days into a record you can actually read — and, when you want it, a route into migraine research. No needles, no clinic visit, no cost.
“Ask me what set it off and I will guess. Show me twelve weeks and I will know.”
— what we heard, over and over, while designing the diaryAbout us
Most of what a clinician can do in a fifteen-minute appointment depends on what you can remember about the last three months. MigraSens exists to make that a record instead of a memory — and to connect the people keeping those records with the researchers who need them.
To make migraine legible — to the person living with it, to the clinician treating it, and to the research that is still trying to explain it. Tracking is free because a record only helps if everyone can keep one.
Short entries, not questionnaires. Ninety seconds during an attack is realistic; a twenty-minute form is not, and a diary nobody fills in is worth nothing. Every field we ask for earns its place or it goes.
We do not diagnose, we do not prescribe, and we do not sell your data. When we describe what research has found, we say who found it and how confident it is reasonable to be. When we do not know, we say that too.
Non-invasive by designNothing to draw, swab or wear. You answer questions you already know the answers to.
Your data, your callExport it, delete it, or take it to your own doctor. Research matching is opt-in and reversible.
Core feature
Four steps, in that order. Each one only makes sense because of the one before it.
Log an attack in about ninety seconds — where the pain sits and how hard, aura, nausea, light and sound sensitivity, what you took and whether it worked.
Read moreYour entries become a timeline. Frequency, duration, treatment days, and the things that keep turning up in the day or two before an attack.
Read morePlain-language summaries of what migraine research is testing right now — and an honest account of what the evidence does and does not yet support.
Read moreWhen a study is recruiting people with a pattern like yours, we tell you. Looking is not joining, and the decision is always yours.
Read moreWhy it matters
Headache specialists ask for a diary for a reason: how often attacks come, how long they last, and how many days a month you treat them are what decide whether the conversation is about acute treatment or prevention.
Frequency and duration drive the treatment decision. A remembered month is not a diary, and nobody remembers a month accurately.
Published trigger lists are a starting point. Only your own record can tell you whether yours behaves that way — or whether what looks like a trigger is actually an early symptom.
Counting the days you treat is the only reliable way to notice a threshold approaching. MigraSens counts them so you do not have to.
Most migraine studies want a documented baseline before day one. Tracking now is what makes taking part possible later.
Six months of entries, counted automatically.
| Apr | 11 |
|---|---|
| May | 12 |
| Jun | 9 |
| Jul | 10 |
| Aug | 7 |
| Sep | 6 |
Ongoing tracking
Migraine is not an event, it is a pattern. One bad week tells you almost nothing; six months of entries tells you whether the thing you changed in March actually did anything. MigraSens keeps counting in the background and shows you the direction.
How we work
Open the diary during or after an attack and answer the short set. It works offline and it does not care what time it is.
No device, no wearable, no sample. Nothing about the record is invasive.
After a few weeks the timeline starts to mean something: how often, how long, what you took, what came before.
Sixty days is usually enough to see a shape. Ninety makes it worth arguing with.
Export a one-page summary — frequency, duration, treatment days, the top recurring factors — and bring it to the appointment.
The summary is a document, not a diagnosis. Your clinician decides what it means.
If you opt in, we let you know when a study is recruiting people whose pattern looks like yours. You read it; you decide; you can opt out any time.
Opt-in only. We never pass your details to a study without you asking us to.
Who we help
The same record is useful in three different rooms, which is the whole argument for keeping it.
A record you can keep on the worst day of the month, and read on the best one.
A patient who arrives with three months of structured entries instead of an estimate.
People who already track, who have opted in, and who know what they are being asked.
Photophobia, phonophobia, and the hours before they start.
Hours slept, quality, and how far off your usual pattern it was.
Workload, deadlines, and the let-down day that often follows them.
Barometric change, heat and humidity, logged against your entries.
Migraine research opportunities
Migraine research needs people who already know their own pattern. These are the kinds of study that recruit through platforms like this one — what they involve, and what they ask of you.
8–24 weeks, typically
1–3 attacks recorded
4–12 weeks, at home
The figures above describe how studies of each kind are commonly structured. They are illustrative — the real commitment, eligibility and any reimbursement are set by each study's own protocol and explained to you in writing before you agree to anything.
Testimonials
MigraSens is pre-launch. The quotes below are illustrative — they describe the experience we are designing for, not real users. We will replace them with real ones, attributed, when there are real ones.
“I stopped arguing with my neurologist about how often it happens. I just handed over the summary.”
“What changed things for me was seeing that it was not the wine. It was the two short nights before the wine.”
“Patients who arrive with a real diary get a different appointment. It is not close.”
No screening here can rule migraine in or out. Only a clinician can do that.
MigraSens never recommends a medication, a dose, or a change to one.
Your entries are not a product. Nothing identifiable leaves without your say-so.
Only a study's own site can enrol you, after its own consent process.
FAQs
No. MigraSens is a tracking tool and an information service. It does not diagnose migraine, rule it out, or tell you what kind of headache you have. What it produces is a structured record of what you reported — useful evidence for a clinician, and not a substitute for one.
It means there is nothing to draw, swab, wear or send off. The screening is a structured set of questions about your attacks that you answer from home, in your own time. It is non-invasive in the plain sense: nothing enters your body and nothing is taken from it.
Tracking is free and we intend to keep it that way. There is no ad-supported tier and no paid upgrade to see your own data. Where money changes hands, it is a research sponsor paying us for a referral after you have chosen to make one — never you.
No. Research matching is a separate opt-in box, it is off unless you tick it, and you can turn it off later without losing your diary. Plenty of people will only ever want the diary, and that is a complete use of the product.
You, and anyone you deliberately share an export with. We do not sell or rent your data. If you opt into research matching, we use your pattern to decide which studies to tell you about — we do not hand your details to a sponsor unless you ask us to.
Stop reading and get help. A sudden, severe or unfamiliar headache — particularly with fever, a stiff neck, confusion, weakness, trouble speaking, or after a head injury — is an emergency. Call 911 or go to an emergency department. A tracking app is not the right tool for that day.
Education hub
Frequency, duration and treatment days are the three numbers most treatment decisions turn on. Here is why those three, what a useful entry looks like, and the common ways a diary stops being useful.
Read the articleThe chocolate you craved four hours before an attack may be a symptom of it, not a cause. Separating a trigger from an early warning sign is harder than the popular lists suggest — and getting it wrong leads to years of pointless avoidance.
Read the articleBaselines, run-in periods, washouts, diaries and endpoints — a plain-language tour of the machinery behind a recruiting study, and why so many of them want people who already track.
Read the articleGet started
Two things in one sign-up: a link to start your migraine diary, and — only if you tick the box — a message when a study is recruiting people with a pattern like yours. Tracking is free and stays free.
We have your details. We will email you when the diary opens, and text you if a study matching your pattern starts recruiting — you can stop those at any time by replying STOP.
Start the diary today. Look at the research when you are ready. Neither one costs anything and neither one commits you to the other.
