Migraine · for people with migraine who keep a headache diary for their doctor
MigrainePage is a migraine diary for people who want a private record to bring to their doctor. You tap Start when an attack begins and End when it lifts, then note how bad it got, where it hurt, whether an aura came first, what you took and whether it helped, and anything you suspect set it off. A calendar counts headache days and medicine days for each month. Before an appointment, the last three months become a one-page PDF summary you can print or show on your phone.
Pick the last three months and MigrainePage lays them out on a single page: a small calendar for each month, headache days, attacks and medicine days per month, each medicine with how often you marked it as helping, and the triggers you ticked most often. Print it, or open it on your phone in the exam room. It adds up what you wrote down and stops there.
The first screen is one large button. Tap it when the pain starts and a timer runs; tap End when it is gone, and the attack keeps its real length. During the attack or afterwards, add the peak pain on a 0 to 10 scale, which side hurt, whether there was an aura, the medicine and the time you took it, and whether it helped.
Each month shows which days had a headache, shaded by how bad they got, with a dot on every day you took something for it. Headache days, medicine days and attacks sit at the top of the month as plain numbers. Period days and your own weather notes appear on the same grid, so a month reads at a glance.
Headache doctors ask for a diary because memory is a poor counter. The American Migraine Foundation points out that many people underestimate their headache days, because they remember the really bad ones and discount the rest. A diary fixes the count, but only if somebody can read it. The same foundation's advice is that a journal is useful when your doctor can review it quickly and understand it clearly.
That is the whole idea behind MigrainePage. You record attacks as they happen, in as much or as little detail as you can manage, and the app does the adding up. Three months of entries become one page with the numbers in the same place every time: headache days, attacks and medicine days for each month, a small calendar of each month, and what you noted about medicines and possible triggers.
Nobody wants to fill in a form with a migraine. So logging starts with one tap on a large button, and that is all the app needs from you in the moment. The timer keeps running if you put the phone down, lie in a dark room or fall asleep. When the pain is gone, tap End. If you woke up clear and only remember hours later, you can fix the end time afterwards.
The details can wait until you feel like adding them. Each attack has room for the peak pain on a 0 to 10 scale, the side and area that hurt, whether an aura came first, each medicine with its dose and the time you took it, and whether it helped: yes, a little, or no. A short list of possible triggers, such as poor sleep, a skipped meal, stress, your period or a change in the weather, is there to tick if you suspect one of them.
Paper diaries work until the appointment, when a stack of loose pages has to be counted by hand in front of the doctor. A notes app holds the words but never adds anything up, so the one number that matters most, headache days per month, still has to be worked out from scratch.
Many people start with a large tracker such as Migraine Buddy, which is free to start and sells an optional premium tier. MigrainePage is not affiliated with Migraine Buddy. It takes a smaller approach: there is no account to create, nothing to sign in to, and the diary lives on your phone. The summary is a PDF, and the entries can be exported as a CSV file, so the record stays yours whatever happens to any app.
Migraine often keeps time with the menstrual cycle; the American Migraine Foundation says that among women with migraine, about two-thirds have menstrually related migraine. You can mark period days on the calendar yourself. On iPhone, you can instead choose to let MigrainePage read cycle and sleep data from Apple Health; it works fully without that permission.
Weather is a note you write, not data the app fetches. MigrainePage works offline and does not look up forecasts or air pressure. If you think a storm front or a heat wave had something to do with a bad day, write it down, or tick the weather box on that attack, and it shows up on the calendar and in the summary as your note.
MigrainePage does not tell you what kind of headache you have, what causes your attacks, or which medicine to take. It does not predict attacks and it does not score your triggers. The calendar shows how many days you took medicine as a number, without warnings or advice, because what that number means for you is a conversation for your doctor. The summary repeats what you entered, and the triggers on it are labelled as the ones you ticked.
There are no streaks, badges or scores. A migraine diary should be easy to come back to after a bad week, not something that makes you feel behind.
MigrainePage is a record-keeping tool. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or give medical advice. If your headaches change, get worse or come with new symptoms, talk to a doctor. A sudden, extremely painful headache needs emergency care.
No. It records what you enter and adds it up. It does not diagnose, recommend treatment or judge whether a medicine works. The page it prints is a summary of your own notes for you and your doctor to read together.
Choose the last three months and MigrainePage makes a one-page PDF summary. Print it before the appointment, send it to the clinic yourself, or open it on your phone in the room.
Yes. Besides the PDF summary, your entries can be exported as a CSV file that opens in any spreadsheet. Your diary does not depend on an account or a server.
No. There is no account and no sign-in, and the app works offline. Your entries are kept on your phone.
Yes. Mark period days on the calendar, or on iPhone let MigrainePage read your cycle and sleep from Apple Health if you choose to. Attacks and period days then appear side by side on the calendar and in the summary.
No. You can tick the things you suspect on each attack, and the summary shows how often you ticked them. It does not claim that any of them caused an attack; that is something to talk through with your doctor.
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