You state that as if it's simple and anyone can do it.
What if something common like changes in atmospheric pressure trigger it? What if you have multiple common triggers? What if you don't know all your triggers?
Just keep a food log, mood log, sleep log, stress log, barometric pressure log, air quality log, oxygen level log, altitude log, brightness log, screen-time log, eye strain log, face-shoulder-neck tension log, spine pain log, head trauma log, and a blood pressure log.
Then you can hook up all the data into a recurrent neural network that finds the patterns in the data and lets you know what combination of conditions will give you migraines.
It's really easy to find all your migraine triggers if you follow these very basic steps.
Should also probably log stool weight/color, mineral/vitamin intake across all foods, etc etc - just to make it even more clear that a person has no time to “just log everything” that could possibly play a role. And at the end, it would probably not explain a majority of the headaches - at least in my experience.
> it would probably not explain a majority of the headaches - at least in my experience
This is my experience too. I know a good number of my migraine triggers, but some days I do everything right: I eat good food (regularly), plenty of sleep, no over-exertion, lots of water, breaks from screen time, no eye strain, etc etc...still get a fucking migraine!
Yep and that list of things you did correct could go on for pages. It’s similar for how I treat my headaches. I don’t just take a triptan. I do the yoga stretch, maybe a cup of tea (full cup of coffee if I’m in 9/10 zone), some Gatorade, ginger powder, tumeric powder, heat on the traps, TENS unit on the traps/neck/temples, ice, etc and nothing. I’ve even fallen asleep while doing half of those in the crocodile position before. It worked that time, too.
Then you can hook up all the data into a recurrent neural network that finds the patterns in the data and lets you know what combination of conditions will give you migraines.
It's really easy to find all your migraine triggers if you follow these very basic steps.