[migraine] achievement of the day

... (other than not having a migraine any more, that is...) was writing myself up a pain scale for use with the UCLH-provided headache diary.

They want me to assign a "disability score from the headaches (0-10)" to each day. They do not provide definitions for these numbers. For my own purposes I am using a scale from 0-5, because on reflection it provided a level of granularity I wouldn't agonise over:

0: no headache
1: very mild headache - only noticeable if I pay attention/consciously check in
2: mild headache - I notice it spontaneously, but it's not significantly distracting
3: moderate headache - impairs concentration
4: semi-functional migraine
5: non-functional migraine

My Achievement was expanding this to an eleven-point scale so that I can actually have a stab at filling this damn form out for them. ( Read more... )