Migraine Journal
Free Migraine Tracker App: How to Tell Which Free You Get
Free means three different things in a migraine tracker app. A 30-second check on the App Store page tells you which one you are about to install.
Helping an Elderly Parent With Migraines, From a Distance
She says it's nothing, again. Helping an elderly parent with migraines without taking over: the one red flag that needs a doctor, and what helps from afar.
How Many Migraine Days to Qualify for Botox?
Botox's licence is chronic migraine: 15 or more headache days a month, at least 8 migrainous, for over 3 months — and what your diary has to show.
How to Share Your Migraine Diary With Your Doctor
One page, sent two days early, with four numbers at the top. Why a 300-row spreadsheet gets ignored in a twelve-minute appointment, and what to send instead.
How to Track Migraines in Apple Health (and Its Limits)
Apple Health will log a headache in four taps. Here's how, what it records, and the three fields it has no place for that a neurologist asks about first.
Menstrual Migraine: What Helps Once the Pattern Is Confirmed
Your three-cycle count came back positive. What helps menstrual migraine now is an appointment agenda: three things to ask about, and what to bring.
Migraine Buddy Alternative: What You Lose by Switching
Looking for a Migraine Buddy alternative? What actually transfers, what you give up, and how to read both apps' Apple privacy labels before you move.
Migraine Caregiver Burnout: The Job Nobody Names
Migraine caregiver burnout doesn't look like collapse. It looks like forecast-watching, quiet cancellations, and a resentment you're ashamed of. What helps.
School Migraine Plan Template (Free Letter + Plan)
Two pages: a letter to send three days before the meeting, and a one-page plan the adult on duty in November can read in fifteen seconds.
Sinus Headache or Migraine? What to Record for Two Weeks
In 2,991 people with self-diagnosed sinus headache, 88% met migraine criteria. Four things worth recording, and one sign that settles nothing.
Sleep and Migraines: Why 'Sleep More' Is Useless Advice
The link between sleep and migraines runs both ways, and both short nights and weekend lie-ins are reported triggers. What to log so the pattern shows.
What Counts as a Migraine Day? The Rules Trials Use
A migraine day is a calendar day, not an attack — one long attack can be three of them. The counting rules behind every threshold your neurologist quotes.
Caffeine and Migraines: A Two-Week Test You Can Run
Caffeine can ease an attack, cause one, or cause one by its absence. A two-week protocol that tells you which of those is happening to you.
How to Help a Coworker With Migraines, Quietly
How to help a coworker with migraines when you have no authority and they owe you no explanation: quiet cover, real interference, and the lines to skip.
Migraine Trigger Foods: Why the List You Found Is Wrong
Chocolate, cheese, red wine. The famous migraine trigger foods list has a causation problem, and the factor with the best evidence is not on it at all.
Questions to Ask Your Neurologist About Migraines
Twelve questions, grouped by the decision each one settles, plus the two worth asking at the end that change what happens in the months after you leave.
Signs of Migraine in a Young Child, Including No Headache
In young children attacks are shorter, often on both sides, and sometimes have no head pain at all — recurrent tummy ache instead. What to notice and record.
When to Go to the ER for a Migraine: Red Flags to Act On
Go to the ER for a migraine when it hits full force in under a minute, arrives with fever and a stiff neck, or brings any new stroke-like sign.
Why Do I Get Migraines at the Weekend? The Let-Down Effect
Attacks often arrive after stress ends rather than during it. One study found a near five-fold rise in the six hours after stress dropped — and it's testable.
How to Tell If Your Migraines Are Hormonal: Count 3 Cycles
No symptom marks a migraine as hormonal. Telling if your migraines are hormonal is arithmetic: do attacks land in a five-day window in two of three cycles?
Does Barometric Pressure Cause Migraines? Why Studies Disagree
Sometimes, for some people. Whether barometric pressure causes migraines splits the research for a reason that decides what you need to record.
How Many Migraines a Month Is Chronic? The Two Numbers
Chronic migraine is not simply fifteen headache days a month. The definition needs a second number most articles leave out — and it changes the diagnosis.
How to Describe Migraine Pain to a Doctor
An eight out of ten tells a clinician almost nothing. How to describe migraine pain to a doctor using the six features they actually listen for.
How to Talk to Your Child's School About Migraines
The nurse's office is not a plan. How to talk to your child's school about migraines, what to ask for in writing, and a letter to send before the meeting.
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