Emycra

Medical disclaimer

Last updated: 9 October 2026

What that means in practice

Emycra is a personal diary. Its job is to record your attacks and to take them to your doctor in a clear form. It does not diagnose, it does not interpret your symptoms, and it does not suggest which medication to take or in what dose. It does not replace your doctor's judgement.

What the app shows is a rearrangement of what you wrote yourself: how many attacks you had, how long they lasted, how intense they were, what you took, which triggers you recognised, how consistent you were with your preventive therapy. Those are counts, not clinical assessments. If you write little down, the numbers say little: the quality of the diary depends on you, not on an algorithm.

What the app does not do, by design

• It does not diagnose, not even implicitly: it does not tell a migraine with aura apart from another kind of headache, and it does not say whether your headache is a migraine.
• It suggests no doses and no changes of therapy, and it does not assess whether a medication worked.
• It contains no validated clinical scores (HIT-6 or MIDAS, for example): those are diagnostic tools, and this app is a record.
• It reads neither weather nor barometric pressure: the app works without a network, so you enter your triggers yourself, by hand, as you feel them.
• It does not assess urgency and it does not decide whether you should go to an emergency department.

The report for your doctor

Emycra is not a medical device. The PDF report gathers the data entered by the patient and contains no diagnosis, no clinical assessment and no treatment indications: its only purpose is to make the conversation with your treating doctor easier. The same line is printed on every page of the report.

When not to wait

Contact a doctor or the emergency services straight away if any of the following happens to you:

• an unusual attack, different from the ones you know
• the worst headache of your life, or pain that arrives suddenly and reaches its peak within seconds
• a high fever together with the headache
• confusion, unusual drowsiness, or difficulty staying awake
• weakness on one side of your body, or difficulty speaking or understanding
• visual disturbances that do not pass, or double vision
• headache after an injury to the head
• any symptom that frightens you or that you have never experienced before

Do not wait until you have logged the attack in the app: call first, and log it afterwards if you want to.

About the numbers and the correlations

Counting triggers only means something thanks to the control days: to say that "80% of my attacks come after chocolate" you need to know how often chocolate was there without an attack following. That is why the app lets you log the triggers you noticed on days free of attacks as well. Even then, a correlation is not a cause: it is a point to discuss with your doctor, not a conclusion.

In an emergency

In the European Union call 112. In the United States call 911. Elsewhere, use your local emergency number. The app is not designed to handle emergencies, it sends no alerts to anyone and it does not call for help on your behalf.