The Cycle
Seven questions. Most women can only answer two.
The other five are where the trouble usually is.
Your cycle is not a monthly event. It is a monthly report, and it is one of the few your body files without being asked.
Almost everything else in medicine has to be looked for. Blood has to be drawn, images have to be taken, a test has to be ordered by someone who suspected something first. The cycle arrives on its own, carrying information about hormonal function, thyroid function, metabolic state, stress load, nutritional status and the health of the reproductive system, and it arrives roughly thirteen times a year for thirty-five years.
Almost nobody is taught to read it. Most women leave school able to name the four phases and unable to say what any of them are doing.
These are seven questions I would ask in a consultation. None of them is difficult. Most people can answer the first two and stop somewhere around the third, and the stopping point is usually more informative than the answers.
Read them, notice which ones you cannot answer, and bring that list to whoever looks after your health.
There is nothing to score and nothing to submit.
Educational and reflective. Not medical advice.
Your report is ready.
You have just read seven questions a physician would ask you, and marked the ones you could not answer.
Enter your first name and your best email, and your list, written the way you would say it out loud in an appointment, is on the next screen.
Your answers stay with you. Nothing you tap is stored, here or anywhere.
This is educational and reflective. It is not medical advice and it does not replace the care of a licensed professional in your country of residence. Any symptom that is new, persistent, sudden, severe, or simply unexplained goes to your own physician first.
That is the work.
