Managing Headaches

Practical tools and questionnaires to help track, assess and manage your headaches. Articles include diary templates, severity assessments and resources for communicating with healthcare providers.

Assessing the Severity of Your Head Pain

How to measure and track the severity of your headaches and migraines using practical assessment tools.

Butterburr: Pros and Cons

Butterbur reduced migraine frequency by nearly half in clinical trials, but limited research since then makes it hard to know if it's worth trying.

Child Friendly Headache Questionnaire

A child friendly headache questionnaire helps kids describe their pain clearly so parents and doctors can spot patterns and find what triggers their migraines.

Creating a Headache Care Sheet for Your Child's School

Help your child's school manage headaches and migraines with a care sheet that ensures proper medication and trigger avoidance.

Deep Brain Stimulation and Cluster Headaches

Deep brain stimulation offers hope for cluster headache sufferers when other treatments fail to provide relief.

Headache and Migraine Impact Quiz

Take this quiz to see how much headaches and migraines are really affecting your work, relationships and daily life.

Keeping a Migraine Diary

Track your personal migraine triggers by keeping a detailed diary to spot patterns and find what sets off your headaches.

Keeping Track of Headache Triggers

Keep a headache diary to spot your personal triggers and notice how they change over time for better long-term management.

Migraine Disability Assessment Questionnaire

The MIDAS questionnaire helps your doctor measure how migraines affect your daily life and find the right treatment for you.

Monitoring Headache Therapy Over Time

Track how your headache treatment works over time, since effectiveness can change and you may need to adjust your therapy.

Putting Together a Headache Treatment Kit

Assemble a headache treatment kit with pain relievers, prescription drugs, and calming tools to have relief ready whenever you need it.

Quiz to Assess Head Pain: Headache or Migraine?

Take this quick self-assessment to tell the difference between a regular headache and a migraine.