Explore Migraines, comparing your attacks side by side

Explore Migraines is the screen that opens when you tap the Migraines card on the Monitor tab. It lets you look at each of your migraines one at a time, and flip between them to see what was different. Many people find it easier to spot patterns this way than to read a long report. Explore Migraines is a Premium feature; on the free plan, tapping the card opens the subscription page.

You do not need to compare anything if you do not want to. Just looking at one migraine at a time is perfectly useful on its own.

Opening Explore Migraines

1. Open MigraineMe.
2. Tap the Monitor tab at the bottom.
3. Scroll until you find the Migraines card. Tap it.
4. The Explore Migraines screen opens, with your weekly numbers at the top and a Migraine Timeline card underneath.

Looking at one migraine

The Migraine Timeline card shows one attack at a time.

1. Use the left and right arrows to move to an older or newer migraine. A small counter shows where you are, for example "3 of 12".
2. For the selected migraine you will see the date, how long it lasted, how strong it was, and coloured chips counting the things you logged around it (triggers, medicines, reliefs, and so on).
3. If you marked where the pain sat or where your aura appeared, small head and vision diagrams show that too.

Take your time. There is no need to remember anything. Everything you see was logged by you.

Comparing two migraines

This is where Explore Migraines becomes most useful.

1. Look at one migraine.
2. Tap an arrow to move to another one.
3. Switch back and forth between the two.

By flipping between two migraines, your eye will pick up the things that differ between them. A trigger that was on one but not the other. A medicine that worked the first time but not the second. A location that always shows up.

The full timeline

Tap the Migraine Timeline card and the full Migraine Timeline screen opens, with a graph and filters.

1. The graph shows the days around the selected migraine, with your logged events as numbered dots.
2. Under Overlay Metrics you can tap chips to draw metric lines (sleep, HRV, weather and more) on the graph. Each line carries its own small name label riding on the line, with dots at each day's value, so you can see how a metric moved in the days before an attack.
3. Filters at the top let you narrow the list to a time range or to attacks matching certain tags.

On the full timeline screen, More frequency and trends opens your monthly, weekly and day-of-week charts. Back on Explore Migraines, below the timeline card, you will find charts of everything you have logged by category.

What to do with what you spot

You do not have to act on anything. But if you notice the same trigger appearing in three or four migraines in a row, it is worth raising that trigger's strength so the risk score takes it more seriously. You can do that from the menu under Manage Items, then Triggers, by tapping the trigger and choosing a higher value.