Headache Diary
Headache Diary
Headache Diary
With the headache diary you can document how often you have headaches.
You can also find out what triggers your headaches – and what doesn’t.
You may find out things you never thought of, or others that don’t have as much of an impact as you thought.
Once you know your headache triggers, you might have some good ideas about what you can change to have fewer headaches! You’ll find lots of suggestions to further support your own ideas on the page:
Manage your headaches!
Using a headache diary also allows you to describe your headaches in detail. If you’re not quite sure whether you have a migraine or a tension-type headache, or if you think you might have both types of headaches, try documenting the characteristics of your headaches for a few weeks.
Download your own headache diary!
In it you can write down…
- Headache characteristics: pain intensity, duration, and onset.
- Accompanying symptoms of headaches, e.g., vomiting, sensitivity to noise or light…
- Features before headache onset: triggers and prodromal symptoms
- Treatment: strategies and medications used and how helpful they were
- Interference of the pain in everyday life
The point is not to avoid all triggers – but to find out in which situations it is good to avoid doing certain things and when you can make an exception!
Learn more about headaches on the following pages.
Tension-type headaches
Here you will find information about the most common type of headache, the tension-type headache.