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Dr Manjit Matharu
Queen Square Private Healthcare
How can keeping a headache diary help my doctor diagnose my headache condition?
Dr Manjit Matharu, a Consultant Neurologist at Queen Square, says due to the multitude of different types of headaches, keeping a diary of the frequency, length and severity of the headaches can help the doctor ascertain the nature of the headache and provide a diagnosis.
Transcript
There are a multitude of headaches out here. And for a doctor to make the diagnosis, what is really helpful this year know figures such as how frequently the headaches are occurring. How long they are lasting. How severe the pain is. And in the context of that, just having the patient keeping a diary for a period of time can be a very invaluable aid to making a diagnosis.
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