Track
Ninety seconds during or after an attack. Pain site, severity, aura, nausea, light and sound, what you took and whether it worked.
Read moreTrack. Understand. Research. Participate.
Four steps in a fixed order. Each one is only worth doing because of the one before it — and you can stop after any of them.
Understand
Entries become a timeline: frequency, duration, treatment days, and what keeps appearing in the day or two beforehand.
Read moreResearch
What the field is testing now, in plain language, with an honest account of how strong the evidence is.
Read moreParticipate
Opt in and we tell you when a study wants people with your pattern. Reading about one commits you to nothing.
Read moreStep one
Track it while you still remember it
The diary is deliberately short, because the moment you most need to fill it in is the moment you are least able to. Fourteen fields, most of them a tap, and every one of them is something a headache clinician would have asked you anyway.
- Start and end time
- Pain site and side
- Severity 1–10
- Aura
- Nausea or vomiting
- Light sensitivity
- Sound sensitivity
- Medication and dose
- Did it help
- Sleep the night before
- Stress level
- Menstrual cycle day
- Skipped meals
- Free-text note
Non-invasive means non-invasive. There is nothing to draw, swab, wear or post. Every field is a question you answer yourself, which is also why the record is only as good as your honesty with it.
Your headache days per month
Trending downSix months of entries, counted automatically.
6 months agoThis month
| Apr | 11 |
|---|---|
| May | 12 |
| Jun | 9 |
| Jul | 10 |
| Aug | 7 |
| Sep | 6 |
Step two
Understand what the record is telling you
A single attack is noise. Twenty of them is a signal. Once there are enough entries, MigraSens stops showing you a list and starts showing you the four things that actually change a treatment decision.
Headache days per month
The number a specialist asks for first, counted rather than estimated, and plotted so a trend is visible.
Duration and time of onset
How long attacks run untreated, and whether they cluster around a time of day or a day of the week.
Treatment days
How many days a month you take something. Watched against the thresholds associated with medication-overuse headache.
Recurring antecedents
What shows up in the 48 hours before an attack more often than chance would predict — flagged as a question, never as a cause.
Step three
Read the research before anyone asks you to join any
Our education hub summarises published migraine research in plain language: what was tested, on whom, what it found, and how much weight one study can reasonably bear. Where a finding is early or contested, we say so rather than rounding it up into a headline.
This part is free of any funnel. Reading a summary does not put you on a list and does not tell a sponsor anything about you.
Step four
Participate, only if you want to
Research matching is an opt-in switch, off by default, reversible at any time, and entirely separate from your diary.
You turn matching on
A single toggle in your account. Until you turn it on, nothing about you is compared against any study criteria.
Turning it off later leaves your diary exactly as it was.
We match on pattern, not identity
Studies tell us what they need — a frequency range, an age band, a region. We check that against your record and tell you when it fits.
The sponsor does not see you at this point. They see that someone matched.
You read and decide
You get a plain summary: who is running it, what it is testing, what it would ask of you, how long, and any reimbursement.
No is a complete answer and it has no consequences.
The study takes it from there
If you say yes, we introduce you to the study site. Their staff run their own screening and their own informed-consent process.
Only the study can enrol you, and only after consent. We never can.
How we are paid. Sponsors and research sites pay MigraSens a fee for a referral that reaches their screening stage. You are never charged, and a fee never depends on you enrolling, staying enrolled, or on what any study finds.
Get started
Start tracking, and hear about studies that fit.
Two things in one sign-up: a link to start your migraine diary, and — only if you tick the box — a message when a study is recruiting people with a pattern like yours. Tracking is free and stays free.
Check your inbox.
We have your details. We will email you when the diary opens, and text you if a study matching your pattern starts recruiting — you can stop those at any time by replying STOP.
Four steps. You can stop after any of them.
The diary alone is worth keeping. Everything past it is optional and stays optional.