Migraine Journal
Migraine Accommodation Letter Template: What to Include
A free migraine accommodation letter template, plus what belongs in each of the five sections, what to leave out, and how to phrase each ask.
How to Ask for Migraine Accommodations at Work
The adjustments worth asking for, how to raise it without handing over your medical history, and the record that turns a vague request into an easy yes.
How to Explain Migraines to Someone Who Doesn't Get It
Why the usual analogies fail, and what to say instead. Scripts for explaining migraines to family, a boss, or a friend who thinks it's just a bad headache.
How to Help a Teenager With Migraines Without Hovering
Your teenager gets migraines and you can't always tell how bad it is. What helps at home, what to fix at school, and what to hand over to them.
How to Support a Partner With Chronic Migraines
The attack is the easy part. Supporting a partner with chronic migraines is about cancelled plans, invisible admin, and resentment nobody admits to.
How to Support an Employee With Migraines
A practical guide for managers: the adjustments that actually help someone with migraines, what to say, what not to ask, and how to handle absence sensibly.
How to Tell If Your Migraine Medication Is Actually Working
"It helped" is too vague to act on. Here is the endpoint drug trials actually use, and the timing mistake that makes a working drug look useless.
How to Track Migraine Triggers Without Fooling Yourself
Most trigger tracking produces confident wrong answers. How to track migraine triggers properly: what to record, what to ignore, and the trap everyone hits.
Living With Someone Who Has Migraines: What to Change
Room-by-room changes that make a home easier to have migraines in — lighting, noise, cooking smells, and the shared routines that cause avoidable attacks.
Medication Overuse Headache: How Many Days Is Too Many?
The limit is not 15 days for everything. Triptans, opioids and combination painkillers cross the line at 10 — and mixing types counts too.
Migraine Action Plan Template (Free Printable Card)
A one-page card your household fills in on a good day, so nobody has to guess what you need mid-attack. Free printable migraine action plan template.
Free Printable Migraine Diary Template (PDF, 3 Pages)
A free printable migraine diary template built so filling it in produces the four numbers a neurologist asks for. Three pages: grid, attack detail, summary.
What Not to Say to Someone With Chronic Migraines
The worst things to say to someone with chronic migraines are usually the kindest-sounding. Why nine common phrases land badly, and what to say instead.
What to Bring to a Neurologist Appointment for Migraine
A neurologist needs four numbers, not your life story. What to bring to a neurologist appointment for migraine, and why one page beats a 40-page printout.
What to Put in a Migraine Kit (and Where to Keep It)
A migraine kit only works if it's within reach when the attack starts. What to put in one for someone else, where to keep it, and what never gets used.
Why Your Migraine Comes Back After the Medication Works
Two different things get called rebound: a drug clearing before the attack ends, or a pattern that builds over months. Telling them apart changes what to do.
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