Hi, I'm Melanie.

Here's something you might not expect from the founder of Migraine Master: I've never had a migraine. But I know what it's like when light becomes the enemy.

On July 1, a gallstone blocked my bile duct. Within hours I was jaundiced, my skin and eyes turning yellow, and I spent the next seven days in the hospital. I was taken into the operating room. When the surgeons recommended removing the organ, I made the hard decision to decline surgery, and I'm still healing today.

What I didn't see coming was what happened after. The stress of those weeks left me with headaches that wouldn't quit, and a sensitivity to light I'd never known. I wore sunglasses indoors. I turned my phone screen down to 1%. Some afternoons the only thing that helped was lying down with a pillow pressed over my eyes, waiting for the world to get dark enough to bear.

Lying there, I kept thinking about the millions of people who live like this every month, not for a few weeks. People who plan their lives around a pain nobody else can see, and who are told to just drink some water and lie down.

While I healed, I had time on my hands, so I started reading: studies, case reports, the research on triggers, weather, caffeine and sleep. I'm a professional researcher, so finding and analyzing data is what I do, and I kept turning up case studies most people don't even know exist, like the work on green light therapy. Then I looked at the tools people with migraine already use, and I was shocked by how many trackers fail the people who need them. I realized I could build something better, something that truly helps.

That's Migraine Master. It's the organized, informed, kind support system I'd want a big sister to hand me: the trackers, the guides and the research, all in one place, so you can understand your own patterns and walk into your doctor's office prepared.

You deserve to feel in control of your days again. I built this to help you get there.

With love,
Melanie