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Plain-language writing about migraine, tracking and research. No advice about your own treatment — that conversation belongs with your clinician.
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 articleTaking something for a headache too many days a month can, over time, make the headaches worse. What the thresholds are, why they differ by drug class, and what counting looks like in practice.
Read the articleBarometric change is one of the most commonly reported triggers and one of the hardest to demonstrate in an individual. What your own record can and cannot settle.
Read the articleWhat to bring, what to lead with, and which questions get the most out of a short consultation when you have months of data and very little time.
Read the articleHow we write
Health writing goes wrong in predictable ways. These are the rules we hold ourselves to, and you can hold us to them too.
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We are a tracking tool, not a medical reference. For clinical information, start with organisations whose job that is — your own clinician first, and then the national bodies and patient organisations working on headache disorders.
The only person who can interpret your record in the context of the rest of your health. Bring the summary; ask what it changes.
A sudden, severe or unfamiliar headache, or one with fever, stiff neck, confusion, weakness or trouble speaking, is an emergency. Call 911.
National headache and migraine charities publish reviewed patient information and run support communities. We will link to specific ones here once we have checked them.
Nothing in the hub asks you for anything. When you do want to start a diary, it is one form and it is free.
