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?

thank you kind friend. well im not sure how much was hormones and how much repressed trauma and a marriage I didnt see had so many difficulties.

nobody took seriously it could be related to hormones but im an academic and had access to medical journals and I found out for myself that outside of adolescent and young adulthood there is a peak in sever mental illness for women in 40s-50s. no doctor ever looked into it. I ahd bad anxiety and stress and it tipped over into delusions and paranoia.

it was nine years ago and I basically lost every single thing I loved in my life.

ive nto been very well since and have only worked sporadically. it felt like the old me died.

Once upon a time I was in a hospital (in Ireland where I live), having a missed miscarriage. This was just before the 2018 abortion referendum so they were trying to work out if they could do a d and c. They asked me the date of my LMP and i took out my phone, looked at my calendar and told them. The person asking me looked very surprised at my certainty and said something to that effect. I got the impression from this that many women were very sketchy on this detail.

Your DP has periods 😜

Your title makes it sound like it's something you don't do and then you go on to explain that you do and it's actually a bloke who will never need to track a period that thinks it's weird.

Well so what?! Just another man who doesn't understand. Massive yawn.

Yes I track my period.

have you never heard of lesbians?

I have used a tracker on my phone for last few years helpful now in peri menopause

mine have always been like clockwork I felt the egg release and knew when to expect my period if a few days late would likely be getting a pregnancy test

i tracked mine for over 30 years - on paper, never on an app.

I think most women track them at some point in their life.

However I have very rarely ever mentioned said tracking to any men in my life. Possibly just DH when TTC or trying to plan dates. So it doesn't surprise me at all that a man would not know that women track their periods.

I always tracked mine when I had them. Who wants to be caught short!!

I haven't as I was on the pill from about 20 to 50 so there was no need but I don't think it's weird. I stopped the pill last November and haven't had a period yet but if/when I do I suppose I'll have to start tracking them then.

Dear Universe, please give me the confidence of a man who is not remotely embarrassed to declare the recording of symptoms of a regularly oocuring biological process that only happens to women "weird".

I track mine as contraception and have done for a while, if your cycle is regular and you get clear ovulation symptoms it’s pretty effective. When I wanted to get pregnant I did first try. I hated what hormonal contraception did to my body.

I’ve always tracked my periods since my very first one over forty years ago. I remember when we had the period talk at school we were told to circle the first day of each period on the calendar.

Of course is a cycle. Not a menstrual cycle though.

I’ve never tracked mine, I had irregular periods since starting and then PCOS so got maybe one every 12-18 months whenever it felt like showing up.
Ive been on MJ now for approximately 18 months and have had one roughly monthly but I couldn’t tell you dates!
I don’t find it weird that people do track but I’ve never needed to know so I’ve never thought to do it.

I've always tracked mine. At first so I could plan whether or not I could go swimming, then while ttc, then trying not to get pregnant. These days I am tracking for swimming purposes again.

Of course I didn’t consider DP could also be female. Sorry. 🤭

I always tracked mine, back in the olden days, with pencil and graph paper! Mainly because I was irregular and used to track my waking temperature.

Every woman I know has tracked their cycle since the beginning of their periods on a calendar or diary, and in recent years on apps.
otherwise how do you know where you’re at and if you’re pregnant or not ?!
Your husband is way out of line here

Your DP is a self centred twat. It was women who first started tracking time, women created the first calendars following the cycles of the moon so they can track their own cycles. You have to track your cycle because if you don't and you get pregnant you will lose options. It goes triple if you have hormone related illnesses. Or chronic conditions that have an impact on hormones. Once I was tracking just to be certain my loose bowel movements were hormone related not cancer related!

Literally everyone does this 🤷‍♀️

This. also making sure there were enough tampons in the house (I date from before moon cups and period pants) I mean is your husband that dumb. How would you know you were late and do a test if you didn't track them?
edit: I come from the days when you got the pill prescribed from a family planning clinic and every time I went for a prescription, they always asked me D.O.L.P.

Not sure why your DP thinks it’s something he should have an opinion on? He doesn’t get periods so why would he know or care about you tracking your cycle?

I've tracked mine for over 20 years. They are so erratic that I built a spreadsheet that runs a Monte Carlo analysis that shows me a six-month lookahead of the likelihood of a period arriving on a particular day. Does that count?

Seriously though, your DP is a knob. Of course women track their periods!

Even stoneage women were tracking their cycles I reckon. There are tally marks on cave walls and the academics say maybe they were tracking lunar cycles… no we all know what they were tracking!

I tracked my whole menstrual life from the first to the last (diary to Fitbit app).

Your DP is a knob.