Article · August 3, 2026
Five things you can stop tracking, and what to track instead
The fix for tracking burnout is not a better app with more fields. It is logging less, and logging the things your neurologist can actually act on.
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For people whose migraine doesn't fit the form.
Writing about chronic migraine, the CGRP era, vestibular migraine, and the things trackers keep getting wrong.
Article · July 31, 2026
What your migraine app might be doing with your health data
The privacy question for a migraine tracker isn't what the policy says. It's where your symptom data physically goes, and how many companies touch it on the way.
Article · July 30, 2026
What 200,000 r/migraine Posts Actually Say About Migraine Apps
We read what the r/migraine corpus actually says about tracking apps. The pattern: patients log the spike, then get abandoned by every app for the 72 hours that hurt most.
Article · July 29, 2026
The CGRP prior-auth squeeze and the after-phase no form asks about
A fresh payer policy change puts CGRP access back in the spotlight. Here is what it means for the after-phase your appeal never documents.
Article · July 28, 2026
How to read a tamper-evident migraine report at your neurology appointment
Self-reported diaries get discounted for recall bias. A tamper-evident export shows your neurologist the data is exactly what your phone recorded, unedited.
Article · July 27, 2026
How to Document Your Migraines for an FMLA or SSDI Claim
FMLA and SSDI adjudicators decide on paper, not pain. What a claim-grade migraine record actually contains, and why the postdrome days you skip are the ones that count.
Article · July 24, 2026
The lifetime cost of migraine, and why subscription apps make it worse
Run the real arithmetic on a lifetime with migraine, and the recurring tracking subscription is the one line item designed to compound instead of end.
Article · July 23, 2026
Step Therapy Is Still Gatekeeping CGRP. Your Symptom Log Is the Counter-Argument.
When an insurer denies a CGRP preventive for missing prior-therapy documentation, the appeal turns on evidence you can only build across weeks, not remember in a portal.
Article · July 22, 2026
What chronic migraineurs wish their neurologist understood about postdrome
The headache gets the appointment. The recovery day after it rarely reaches your neurologist's notes. Here is how to put postdrome on the record, with the research to back you.
Article · July 21, 2026
What menstrual and perimenopausal migraineurs deserve from their tracker
Menstrual and perimenopausal migraineurs get one sex toggle and no cycle-day correlation. What a tracker built around hormonal state would actually show.
Article · July 20, 2026
If You've Left Migraine Buddy, You Don't Need to Start Over
Leaving a migraine tracker feels like erasing years of attacks. It isn't. Here's why your history is portable, and how to keep the timeline going.
Article · July 19, 2026
Apps you can delete once you're using Postdrome
Chronic and vestibular migraine tracking sprawls across six apps and a paper journal. Here is what consolidates when a continuous timeline becomes the record.
Article · July 17, 2026
Step Therapy vs. First-Line CGRP: Why Your Prior-Auth Still Lags the Guidance
Headache specialists cleared CGRP drugs as first-line care. Most insurer step-therapy protocols still make you fail older, cheaper drugs first. Here is the gap, and what to document.
Article · July 15, 2026
Why we don't take subscriptions (a manifesto)
The subscription model charges chronic-migraine patients the most when they are least able to decide. Here is why we chose one price, once.
Article · July 14, 2026
What to do when your insurance denies CGRP coverage
Insurers deny CGRP coverage counting on you to quit. Here is the appeal ladder, stage by stage, and the documentation that overturns a 'not medically necessary.'
Article · July 13, 2026
The Half-Logged Attack: Why Postdrome Belongs in Your Migraine Record
Most tracking apps end the entry when the pain stops. The 24 to 72 hours after are where the fog, fatigue, and residual light sensitivity actually live, and they belong in the record.
Article · July 10, 2026
How to Track a Migraine When You Have Brain Fog
Postdrome brain fog hits exactly when logging gets hardest. Voice memos, single-tap capture, and a screen you can actually stand to look at.
Article · July 9, 2026
Why Your Trigger Insights Shouldn't Cost $50
Trigger correlation is arithmetic that runs on your phone for free. The subscription that gates it after 90 days of your logging is a pricing choice, not a compute cost.
Article · July 8, 2026
Vestibular migraine 101: it's not just dizzy migraine
The Bárány Society criteria don't require head pain, yet 'no headache means it isn't migraine' keeps sending people to the wrong diagnosis for years.
Article · July 7, 2026
The day after the migraine: how to track the postdrome so it finally gets taken seriously
Most people with migraine feel wrecked for a day or more after the pain lifts. Here is how to log the postdrome so your neurologist stops ignoring it.
Article · July 6, 2026
What to bring to your first headache specialist appointment
A referral, a six-week wait, then twenty minutes with the specialist. Here is the one page that makes those minutes work harder.
Article · July 5, 2026
The Second Paywall: What Migraine Apps Do to CGRP Patients' Own Data
You fought prior authorization to get the medication. Then the app tracking your response locked your own history behind a renewing subscription. That is the second paywall.
Article · July 5, 2026
The Seven Reasons People Track Migraine, and Which Apps Actually Serve Each One
Insurance, disability, trials, triggers, treatment, appointment prep, awareness: each reason demands a different data shape, and most apps build for the easiest.
Article · July 5, 2026
Step Therapy and CGRP: How 'Fail First' Works, and How to Skip It
Insurers make most CGRP patients fail older preventives first. The step-therapy exception process exists to skip that, and almost nobody files it.
Article · July 5, 2026
Reading Your Insurance EOB After a CGRP Claim
An Explanation of Benefits is not a bill. Here is how to read the columns, decode the denial codes, and tell which number you actually owe after a CGRP claim.
Tool · June 12, 2026
Free CGRP Prior-Auth Letter Builder: Built for the Appeal You're Filing This Week
The denial says step therapy. Our free letter builder maps your preventive history and migraine-day count onto the criteria a reviewer actually checks.
Article · June 5, 2026
Why Vestibular Migraine Takes a Decade to Diagnose (and How to Shorten Yours)
Most vestibular migraine attacks bring no headache, so clinicians who pattern-match migraine to head pain filter these patients straight into a years-long diagnostic odyssey.
Article · May 6, 2026
How to talk to your neurologist about postdrome
A practical script for the appointment: how to describe postdrome symptoms quickly, what to ask about treatment, and the line that gets the conversation past acute migraine and into the days after.
Article · May 5, 2026
The headache ends. The migraine doesn't.
The day after a migraine, you should be fine. Your manager said so. Your headache eased. The literature says you're not fine, and there's a name for it.
Article · May 1, 2026
The vestibular migraine schema problem: why your tracker can't represent your symptoms
If your migraines don't end, your tracker doesn't know what to do with you. The data model in every major incumbent assumes a discrete attack with a start time and an end time. The chronic and vestibular cohort, roughly 5.5 million Americans, has been excluded from category tooling for fifteen years by a schema choice nobody calls a schema choice.
Article · May 1, 2026
What every migraine app gets wrong about postdrome
The 24-72 hour migraine after-phase is documented in clinical literature, named by the people who live it, and tracked by zero major incumbents as a first-class entity. The category fails it in four predictable shapes, and the gap is wider than the rest of the design choices put together.