Migraine Trigger Report – Know Your Migraine Trigger Points

What Are Migraine Trigger Points?

Migraine triggers involves a stimulus and changes in the brainstem and its interactions with the trigeminal nerve, a major pain pathway. This triggers imbalances in brain chemicals — including serotonin, which helps regulate pain in your nervous system.

What Is The Migraine Buddy Trigger Report?

The Migraine Buddy Triggers Report is a report specifically designed to help you know what your migraine trigger points are. This allows you to work on your top triggers and see lesser migraine days. You can easily get your Trigger Report if you are an MBplus subscriber. MBplus allows you access to advanced reports, such as Migraine Symptoms Report, Weather reports and so on.

Have you ever thought about the following questions?

• Are there certain food triggers that I am sensitive to, such as alcohol, chocolate etc?
• Could my migraine triggers be psychological, such as depression, anxiety etc.
• Are there certain lifestyle modifications that could trigger migraine, such as contraceptives or birth control?
• What trigger should I focus on to get the best return on my efforts?
• What improvement should I expect by reducing the exposure to this trigger?
• Are my triggers common or unique compared to others?
• What’s my triggers’ trend over the last 6 months?

The Migraine Trigger report can help you better identify your triggers so you can see real results and enjoy more migraine-free days.

How can you get the Migraine Buddy Trigger Report?

How to get the Trigger Report:

• Download Migraine Buddy on iOS  or Android
• Subscribe to MBplus here on your mobile phone.
• Before the end of the month:
  • Log all your attacks in the app
  • Make sure each you have logged your triggers for each attack
  • Receive your report on day 4 of the following month

Migraine Buddy MBplus Reviews

Here is a review from a Migraine Buddy MBplus from Donna, a MBplus subscriber, on how the Migraine Buddy Trigger Report has helped her:

“The MBplus Trigger Report helped me identify precisely triggers contributing to my sensitivities and how to manage them. I could reduce my migraine days by half!”

What’s the science behind the Migraine Buddy Trigger Report?

To receive your own Migraine Buddy Triggers Report, we just need you to record 3 migraine attacks with trigger information (doesn’t include when you tap on “No idea”) in the app over the last 3 months. If you haven’t recorded enough attacks we’ll kindly let you know when you receive your report.

The more attacks you have recorded, the more our calculations will be accurate. We define confidence levels as show below:

To calculate your Trigger Score^TM we are using the following factors:

• The amount of unique triggers: how many unique triggers you recorded
• The recurrence of your triggers: how frequently those triggers are causing you an attack 
• The stability of your trigger combinations over time: how often you recorded the same triggers

We choose migraines with triggers from the current month or from past 3 months if the former is too low.

Your Trigger score is then normalised and standardised to make sure:

• You can compare your score with others in the community
• You can compare your own score overtime

Here is an example of how we calculate the Trigger Score:

	Trigger 1	Trigger 2
Attack 1	Skipped Meal	Stress
Attack 2	Skipped Meal	Stress
Attack 3	Weather	Stress

In the past month you have recorded 3 attacks where:

• You have recorded 3 unique triggers (Skipped Meal, Stress, Weather) → this is a low number of unique triggers
• Stress and Skipped Meal are recurring triggers → most of your triggers are recurring ones
• Stress and Skipped Meal are almost always paired → the combination of your triggers are quite stable

In this example, your Trigger Score^TM would be 26/100. Your score is low therefore your case is considered “easy”. This is good news and a few simple actions will help you control your migraines easily. 

To calculate your Trigger Improvement Score^TM we are using the following factors:

• The frequency of your trigger: how often you have recorded a given trigger
• The actionability of a given trigger: how easy/difficult would it be to eliminate a given trigger from your daily life (based on a ranking made by our expert in psychology) 
• How much improvement you can expect*: how positively could it impact your attacks (in terms of pain intensity, attack duration and affected activities) if you eliminate those triggers 

Your Trigger Improvement score is then normalised and standardised to make sure:

• You can compare your score with others in the community
• You can compare your own score overtime

*Here is an example of the logic we apply to calculate the improvement you can expect:

You have recorded Skipped Meal on some of your attacks. We will compare what was your condition on the attacks you have logged vs. the ones you haven’t logged this trigger.

	Trigger recorded during the attack	Trigger not recorded during the attack	Improvement you can expect
Pain intensity	8/10	3/10	Significant
Attack duration	10 hours	10 hours	No impact
Affected activities	Missed work	Slower at work	Slight

Note: for cases when we do not have sufficient data, we may compare you with users who have a similar profile. 

Migraine Buddy MBplus Reviews

Here is a review from a Migraine Buddy MBplus from Donna, a MBplus subscriber, on how the Migraine Buddy Trigger Report has helped her:

“The MBplus Trigger Report helped me identify precisely triggers contributing to my sensitivities and how to manage them. I could reduce my migraine days by half!”