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Supporting someone with migraines
Almost everything written about migraine is written for the person having one. These are for the partner, parent, adult child, friend, or manager — the person standing outside the bedroom door with a glass of water, not sure whether going in helps.
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What Not to Say to Someone With Chronic Migraines
The worst things to say to someone with chronic migraines are usually the kindest-sounding. Here's why nine common phrases land badly, and what to say instead.
How to Support a Partner With Chronic Migraines
The attack is the easy part. Supporting a partner with chronic migraines is really about cancelled plans, invisible admin, and the resentment nobody admits to.
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.
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 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.
Settle it on a good day
The single most useful thing a household can do is write down, in advance, what's wanted during an attack — so nobody has to ask, and nobody has to answer. The action plan card takes ten minutes to fill in and removes the whole negotiation.
Download the action plan (PDF)If you're the one who notices
Over months, the person having the attacks is often the worst-placed person to see the shape of them, because their memory of each one is compressed by pain. You're the one who might notice the bad ones cluster after short nights, or before a deadline, or when the weather turns.
That observation is worth writing down rather than remembering.How to track migraine triggers covers what's worth recording and what to ignore, and thefree printables are there if you'd rather start on paper.
Nothing here is medical advice. If attacks are becoming more frequent or the pattern changes, that's a conversation with their GP or neurologist.
The person who notices is often the one who installs it
Migraine Journal logs an attack in under a minute, records the pressure change automatically, and prints a summary they can hand to their neurologist.