You may find it useful to keep a diary of your migraine attacks. This can help you work out which things may be causing your attacks. Try to note what you were doing when an attack came on and what you ate and drank in the 24 hours before. You should then try to avoid these triggers as much as possible. For example, you should stop eating cheese if this seems to be a trigger for you.

You may also find that migraine attacks come on with two triggers rather than one. In some women, for example, eating cheese triggers a migraine attack only at certain times in their menstrual cycle.

Try to be faithful about keeping your migraine diary. If you get fewer migraine attacks after removing a trigger, it is worth continuing to avoid the trigger.^[5]

You may want to collect these types of information in your diary:

Glossary

menstrual cycle

The menstrual cycle is the regular monthly process that causes an egg to be released from the ovaries so that a woman can get pregnant. The menstrual cycle causes her period, the bleeding that happens if she does not get pregnant.

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