Migraine JournalTracking
Tracking migraines properly
A neurologist will ask how many days a month you lose. Most people can't answer, because pain compresses memory and a bad month feels like every month. These are about building a record that answers the question — and about not fooling yourself while you do it.
The four things worth recording
Date, severity out of ten, roughly how long it lasted, and what it stopped you doing. That's it. Every column you add past those four is a column you'll stop filling in by week three, and an abandoned diary is worth less than a sparse one.
Log the attack before you take anything. Afterwards you will misremember when it started, and the timing is one of the few things a doctor can genuinely work with.
If you're keeping this for someone else, the person having the attacks is often the worst-placed one to see the shape of them.Supporting someone with migraines is the section written for you.
Start on paper if you'd rather
Nothing here needs an app. The printable diary is three pages and designed so that filling it in produces the numbers a neurologist asks for, and the action plan card is a one-page version for the household.
Get the free printablesNothing here is medical advice. What you do with the record — medication, referrals, anything you decide to change — is a conversation with your GP or neurologist.
Or let it take under a minute
Migraine Journal logs an attack in seconds, records the barometric-pressure change automatically, and prints the summary a neurologist asks for.