How to Keep a Nighttime Headache and Sleeplessness Diary One of the most important tools in headache and sleeplessness prevention is keeping a diary. Diaries may be reviewed by doctors to help determine the underlying causes and patterns related to your headaches and sleeplessness and are an easy way to track the intensity of your headache pain.
Many patients actually feel better after completing their diary.
Self-monitoring often produces behavior change by forcing awareness of the headache and sleeplessness triggers and reminding you of what works for your headache pain and sleeplessness. Below is a Headache and Sleeplessness diary that you can print out. You can also download as a PDF file. To help you complete your entries, look back to the list of nighttime and sleeplessness headache triggers . Fill out your diary based on the next four occasions when you suffer from headache pain and sleeplessness.