Looks like quite a deep/detailed tracking app.
Curious to hear about interesting correlations found so far.
Also: what's with tracking the intake of aged cheese?!
@PieterPaul thanks much!!
Aged cheese - an interesting one indeed. The culprit is Tyramine :) it also exists in cured and smoked meat.
We looked into historical weather patterns and found rise in temperature and drop in humidity is correlated to migraine attacks.
Sleep is also highly correlated (lack of sleep and oversleep) as well.
We are working with neurologists on finding more interesting insights! Stay tuned.
Eagerly awaiting the iOS launch. I've had migraines since age 12 and I've been horrible about tracking them to see what the cause might be. Would love an easier way to investigate!
@colbyh I hear you! We got iOS coming in a few weeks and we have a waiting list on our website www.migrainebuddy.com. If you don't mind, I will let u know when it's available. Would love to get your feedback.
@verochew Already on the list! Glad to give any feedback I can once it is launched. Or, you know, if you want to slip my name on to the pre-release list ;-)
Thanks for having us!
A little info about the founders - we came from healthcare and IT industries with years of experience. Francois's father had two strokes and the initial project was the brainchild for him to find a way to monitor his father in a nonobstrusive way. My father died of heart attack while she was working on mobile ECG at GE. Ali came from IBM with a great experience in IT infrastructure.
We started Migraine Buddy in search of a better way to monitor patients without limiting their freedom. Migraine affects 10-15% of population worldwide including young children. Aside from recording it as a diary, we took a step further to leverage the sensor readings from patients' smartphones - sleep for example. We built an automatic sleep detection engine to correlate how sleep could be potentially an effect or a cause to migraine triggers. The app is developed with neurologists and neurosurgeons specifically addressing the clinical needs for patients and doctors.
Today migraine research is severely underfunded. The approach taken by the research institution can at best taking data from a few thousand of patients.
Where we are today, we have more than 20k within 5 months of launch.
For individual patient, they are already seeing great insights they would not have been able to using paper diary. For researchers, it is a breakthrough to get this array of (anonymous) information. We are also working on iOS version which will be released in a couple of months.
Please let us know what you think. Love to hear from you all product hunters.
@andyfortson yes of course! It's in the works. End of Feb. We have a sign up list in our website www.migrainebuddy.com
I can personally inform you when it's available :)
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Deceptively useful! What may appear as another app in the health-medical ecosystem is actually revolutionary for patient empowerment. IMHO the value here, aside from the platform and analytics, is that patients can use their own mobile device. No accessory needed. No 150 dollar band or head gear or patch to get lost or outdated. And yet the system can use wearables when needed, for example when augmenting Pharm and Bio clinical trials to add layers of monitoring never before possible.
@drsteventucker Thanks! That's really our premise. Dealing with chronic diseases is really a daunting task. We think smartphone monitoring is the way to go, when it's paired with intelligent analytics!
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After being diagnosed with complex migraines I had no idea what my triggers were, but this app really allowed me to identify them and realize what was truly causing a migraine. This app has made my life so much easier and has helped me find a way to keep my migraines under control. It works wonderfully, has great features, and is easy to use!
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@elsiea94 Thanks for your encouraging comment! We are so happy to see Migraine Buddy helping you keeping migraines under control. This is the whole purpose of this ambitious project and encouraging comments like yours keep our team going to improve Migraine Buddy further! Thank you so much :-)
This is phenomenal. I suffered from debilitating migraines most of my life and, about 10 years ago charted my own course through researching this area – reading books, experimenting with diet, supplements, sleep, fasting, exercise routines, etc. All of my "studies" were, of course, a sample size of one (myself). I am happy to say I cured myself of them. The problem is that it took me 9 years! I would be more than happy to share what I found so that someone in my former position could benefit from the information. If you profile and extract common denominators of people who have gone down a similar path, I wonder if this could also be helpful. This collective, crowd-based wisdom might really be a step in the right direction for our medical system. Also, +1 for iOS!
@rsweetland You perfectly nailed it! We are now helping patients in recording easily for themselves and often for their doctor.
But this is also building this crowd-base wisdom. Already seeing a lot in the triggers, and then in the relief methods, and then, find how to prevent the migraines thanks to patients like you who managed to find the way out.
Of course the challenge is huge! There are hundred of different "migraines", with hundreds of different combinations of causes, mechanism and symptoms. We should definitely talk! Your experience can helps hundred of thousands of patients, if not millions.
@francoiscadiou Makes sense. Seems like a huge challenge but a very worthy undertaking! I'd be happy to talk if you think it would be helpful. Feel free to ping me on twitter @rsweetland
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