What if you knew a few hours before?
Many people who get migraines say they can feel one building. Blood pressure is part of what they are feeling. We follow it through the day rather than once a year.
In the hours before an attack, we have observed diastolic pressure fall.
Nobody measures blood pressure when it matters most.
Migraine affects about one in seven people. It is one of the most common reasons for lost working days in the world, and for most people the only real tool is to notice the warning signs and act early: take the medication, find a dark room, cancel the meeting.
Blood pressure is measured in clinics. Migraines happen at work, on the bus, at two in the morning. Almost nobody has a record of their blood pressure in the hours before an attack.
We take that measurement outside the clinic, and we take it often.
Your own baseline, and what happens when you leave it.
Everyone has their own normal.
120/80 is an average. Your usual might be higher or lower, and it moves through the day. A single reading can't tell you where you are relative to your own pattern.
Diastolic falls before an attack.
The drop is only visible to someone measuring during those hours, not at a clinic a week later.
Patterns are personal.
Some people's attacks track blood pressure closely. Others do not. Following one person over weeks shows which is which, instead of averaging them away.
Things people ask us.
We measure blood pressure continuously, outside a clinic, without a cuff. That is the hard part. What we turn it into for migraine is what we are building now.
Not yet. Approval for medical use is its own process and it is not finished. Nothing here should replace advice from your doctor.
Yes. The change shows in the diastolic number ahead of an attack. How consistent it is from one person to the next is what we are working on.
A clinic reading says nothing about the hours around an attack, and migraines happen at work, on the bus, at two in the morning. Those hours are what our scanner is built to cover.
You, and the people working on this. We do not sell it and we do not share it outside that.
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