The migraine personal hand book is a tool designed to help you follow up the evolution of your migraine crisis.
Its aims are to register precisely :
- dates, frequencies and strenght of the crisis
- potential triggering factors that you identify
- medecines taken and their efficiency
This information will allow you to build a constructive dialog with your GP, base on :
- factual and precise accounts of your crisis
- realistic feed-back on treatments efficiency
- comparisons between different treatments
- objective identification of triggering factors
Do not hesitate to make annotations on you migraine hand-book, all information can be useful for you and for your GP to help prevent and cure your migraine :
- what you have eaten and drunk
- unusual physical or mental activities
- special weather conditions
- stress situations linked to work or to your private life
- a psychological or physical shock
- an affective traumatism
- …
Exemple of Migraine Handbook
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Crisis dates
|
Intensity (1)
|
Treatment
taken |
Efficiency
(2) |
Supposed triggering factors
|
|
Start
: 3/3/01
End : 5/3/01 |
5
|
2
propofan |
Medium,
renewed 3 times |
dinner
with
alcohol the 2/3 |
| Start
: 20/3 End : 20/3 |
8
|
2
propofan
2 nalgesic 1 primperan (1take) |
Good
:
End of crisis |
Period
|
| Start
: 10/3 End : 13/3 |
6
|
2
propofan
2 nalgesic 1 primperan |
Weak,
renewed
4 times |
Weather
(storm), and anxiety
|
| (1) Intensity : 1 (very
weak) to 10 (very strong) (2) Efficiency : good, medium, bad |
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