Sleep is one of the most commonly reported migraine triggers. Too little sleep, too much sleep, broken sleep, or just going to bed at a very different time can all show up as patterns. MigraineMe reads your sleep data automatically from your phone or watch and uses it as part of your risk score.
What MigraineMe looks at
The app reads a handful of simple things from your phone or watch:
- How long you slept. The total time you were asleep last night.
- Sleep efficiency. The share of time in bed that you were actually asleep.
- Deep sleep. The restorative part of the night.
- REM sleep. The dreaming part of the night.
- Disturbances. How often you woke up.
- Your bedtime and your wake time, and how steady these are from one day to the next.
You do not need to know what each of these means. MigraineMe handles the numbers for you.
Why steady bedtimes matter
If you usually fall asleep at 11pm and one night you stay up until 2am, that shift alone can show up the next day. It is not only how long you slept that counts. It is also when.
MigraineMe checks your bedtime and wake time against your usual pattern. When something is unusual, it goes into your risk score for the day.
Where to see your sleep
- Open MigraineMe.
- Tap the Monitor tab at the bottom of the screen.
- Scroll down to the Sleep card.
- By default you will see Duration, Fell asleep time and Woke up time for last night.
- Tap the card to open the Sleep detail view if you want to dig into efficiency, stages and disturbances.
What if I do not wear a watch?
You can still use MigraineMe. The app simply uses whatever data it can find.
- Android: MigraineMe can estimate when you fell asleep, when you woke up and how long you slept from how you use your phone, with no watch at all. Stages, efficiency and disturbances need a wearable.
- iPhone: sleep comes through Apple Health, for example from the iPhone's own sleep schedule or a sleep app.
If nothing is tracked, your sleep card will be empty, and MigraineMe will lean on the other things it does know about you.
A note on privacy
Your sleep stays in your account and is only used to help you understand your own headaches. You can switch sleep tracking off at any time: gear icon, then Data and Notifications, then the Sleep section.
In short
MigraineMe reads sleep automatically from your phone or watch, looks at duration, stages, disturbances, and timing, and folds anything unusual into your risk score.
