How often should migraine be reviewed?
How often your migraine should be reviewed is a clinical decision that depends on how frequent and severe your attacks are and whether you're on preventive treatment. What's consistent, though, is that a dated record of how your migraine days and acute-medication use are trending is exactly what makes any review appointment worthwhile.
What shapes the timing
There's no universal interval. Someone with stable, infrequent attacks may only need occasional check-ins, while someone starting a new preventive medication, changing doses, or experiencing frequent or worsening attacks is likely to be reviewed more often. Reviews are also the moment to check whether acute-medication use is creeping toward the levels associated with medication-overuse headache. Because the right frequency is individual, it's something to agree with your own clinician rather than read off a fixed schedule.
What a review should cover
A good review looks at whether your migraine days per month have changed, whether attacks are shorter or milder, how any treatment is working and being tolerated, and how many days a month you're using acute medication. It's also a chance to revisit triggers and the impact on your life. Every one of these is far easier to answer from a record than from memory — which is what turns a review from a vague catch-up into a genuine reassessment.
How tracking helps
A running diary means each review starts from real trend data: you can show whether things are better or worse than last time rather than guessing. That makes decisions about continuing, changing or stepping down treatment better informed. Temple keeps that trend so reviews are grounded in facts — it organises your record and isn't medical advice or a treatment decision in itself. Temple is a tracking tool, not medical advice — for anything specific to you, consult a healthcare professional.
Temple keeps a running trend of your migraine days and medication use, so every review appointment starts from real data instead of a guess.
Common questions
- How often should I see a doctor about my migraines?
- It depends on how frequent and severe your attacks are and whether you're on preventive treatment, so it's a decision to agree with your clinician. Regardless of interval, bringing a dated record of your migraine-day and medication trends makes each review far more useful.
- What makes a migraine review worthwhile?
- Being able to compare against last time: whether migraine days have risen or fallen, how treatment is working, and how many days a month you use acute medication. A diary supplies those trends, so the review reassesses rather than just recaps.