I’ve never known anyone track their periods

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I had thyroid cancer 6 years ago. Had half of it removed. Then I had the Covid jab and had a severe hemorrhagic bleed as a side effect. I ended up in hospital and on tablets to stol the bleeding afterwards.

I have ended up in early peri menopause as a combined effort from both. It’s bloody awful but mid month, I get severe ovulation pain and I know it’s that mainly from tracking my symptoms on my Garmin watch, I know my pain is from my body attempting ovulation, and end of the month I get a vague 12-24 hour period. I barely bleed anymore. I mainly use pantyliners now as there is no need for anything else

DP said it’s ‘weird’ that I am tracking my symptoms with my body and Garmin calendar. Does anyone else do this or am I indeed a bit weird?

I track mine every month.

Your DP is weird.

I’ve tracked mine for the last few years.

It's weird that he thinks it's weird.

I know loads of people who track their periods. Totally normal.

Wouldn't he monitor his health if he was having any issues?

I track both mine and DP’s.

I also track every month OP

I track mine on clue.

Got the period tracker app on my phone, useful as also in perimenopause. Back in the day before mobiles i used to circle the date on a calendar with a red pen.

I’ve been tracking my periods for about 15 years and I know that a lot of my friends do the same.
Your DP sounds a bit thick.

I’ve always tracked my cycle! I’m 48 so it’s been a lot of years of tracking. Most women I know well enough to talk to about these things also track in some way.

Not at all weird.

I’ve tracked regularly for at least the last 15 years - was very helpful getting/avoiding getting pregnant and has been vital as evidence to stop the Drs fobbing me off over my gynae issues

Not paying attention to what your body is doing would be weird

If women didn’t track, how would they manage fertility or period symptoms? No periods here anymore but tracked them for over thirty years. Seems completely normal behaviour.

I'm a crone now, but I tracked mine from the very beginning, to give myself an idea of when to expect them. Surely every woman does this?

I track and don't have anywhere close to the health issues you have had. Your dp is weird

Loads of people do it… hence why there are period tracker apps with built in symptom trackers. How would your husband know what is normal for something he doesn’t experience?

I don’t track because I don’t have periods (mini pill) but most of my friends do.

DP is an idiot

I used to track mine (now stopped) but I don’t think I ever mentioned the fact to anyone at all. I imagine most people are the same

Of course people track. I’ve even seen it in the plot of a book (by a male author) and in a film too.

I used to work in digital health and development of health apps. Menstrual tracking, besides steps and heart rate, is one of the most commonly tracked aspects of health. I’m pretty sure nearly all women track theirs. We get asked constantly for our last menstrual cycle and I’m always checking my app so I can tell it to some doctor or nurse. I don’t track symptoms though as don’t really have any (no cramps, mood changes). I now get my period about every 80 days and it’s been helpful to see the pattern in the change over the past few years.

Also the first ever recorded calendar - the Ishango notched bone - is 20,000 years old and is believed to be a period tracker.

I’ve tracked mine for years. Your husband is weird!!

I’ve tracked for about 10 years, and that’s without any related health issues. At one point it was just to figure out in advance when I’d likely be on (because it’s a pain in the arse when it coincides with a holiday), then because we were TTC, now because I’m approaching peri-menopause. Your DP is the weird one. If it wasn’t a normal thing why would there be myriad tracking apps to choose from?

Is your DP male or female?

I've always tracked, started by putting a dot on my calendar now use my fitness app.