Help your doctor by Keeping a Migraine Diary
A migraine diary is a convenient, easy document you can fill in and take to your doctor, to help your doctor better understand the unique pattern of your migraine symptoms and choose the migraine treatment or pain management that is optimal for you .

When you visit your doctor, take your migraine diary with you and ask what specific information you should record in your diary. Be sure to enter the information as soon as you can after each migraine.Your doctor may provide you with a diary created especially for migraine sufferers. Alternatively, you can create one customized to your own needs. Enter the following information in your diary as soon as you can after an attack-and be sure to bring the diary with you to the doctor:

- date of episode
- pain and accompanying symptoms (nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light or sounds, etc.)
- how much the attack interfered with your ability to function
- migraine triggers (especially types of food, etc)
- location of the pain
- migraine medication taken
- degree of relief that you experienced with your medication
- duration of migraines
- comments (unusual circumstances surrounding the episode)