Using the head diagram to mark pain location

The head diagram is a simple drawing of a head with small dots placed on it. Each dot is a part of the head where people commonly feel migraine pain (the temple, the forehead, behind the eyes, the back of the neck, and so on). You tap the dots that match where you feel your pain. You can tap as many or as few as you like.

You will find the diagram inside the full migraine log. There is no head diagram in the Quick Log cards.

Same on iPhone and Android

1. Open the app.
2. Tap the Log tab at the bottom of the screen.
3. Tap the big purple Log Migraine card at the top.
4. The wizard opens on the Timing step. There are 14 steps in all.

Getting to the head diagram

1. Tap Next at the bottom of each screen.
2. The fourth step is titled Pain. This is where the head diagram lives, together with the severity slider.
3. The step is built around pain entries: the first card is "Pain at attack start", with the severity slider at the top and the head diagram below it.

Marking where it hurts

1. Below the severity slider you will see the heading Where did you feel the pain?.
2. Below that is a smaller line: "Tap the dots on the head to mark where it hurts".
3. You will see a row with two buttons: Front and Back. The Front side is shown first.
4. The drawing shows a head with several small dots on it (forehead, temples, brows, eyes, ears, sinuses, jaw, top of the head, and so on).
5. Tap any dot that matches where you feel pain. The dot changes colour, a line above shows "1 area selected" (or however many), and each picked area appears as a small pill, for example "Left Temple".
6. You can tap as many dots as you like. Pain on both sides of the head is common.
7. To unpick a dot, tap it again, or tap the small ✕ on its pill. The pill disappears.

Switching to the back of the head

1. Tap the Back button.
2. The drawing changes to the back of the head, with its own dots for the back of the head and neck.
3. Tap any dots that apply.
4. To return to the front, tap Front.
5. Any dots you picked on the front are still saved while you look at the back.

If your pain moved or peaked later

The Pain step can hold more than one entry. Tap + Add pain entry to add a second card with its own time, its own severity, and its own head diagram. Use this when the pain started in one place and moved, or got much worse later in the attack.

If you cannot see all the dots

1. Make sure your phone brightness is not too low. Some of the dots can be hard to see in dim light.
2. Try moving the phone closer to your eyes.
3. The dots have a generous tap area around each one, so tapping roughly in the right place works.

If you tap and nothing happens

1. Try tapping a little more in the centre of the dot.
2. Try tapping with the pad of your finger rather than the very tip.
3. Make sure your finger is dry. Touchscreens can ignore very wet fingers.
4. If still nothing happens, close the app fully and open it again. Then return to the Pain step and try once more.

What if my pain moves around?

Pick all the spots you have felt pain, or add a second pain entry with its own time if you want the app to know when it moved. The app understands that one migraine can have pain in more than one area.

Moving on

1. When you have picked your spots, tap Next at the bottom.
2. You can return to the Pain step at any time before saving by tapping Back.
3. After saving, you can add more pain entries from the Journal tab: tap + Add on the migraine's card and choose Add pain. The same severity slider and head diagram open, and the new entry is added to that migraine.