A clinician explains how to track your cycle as data by logging sleep, bowel movements, mood, and pain. Patterns emerge that align with ovulation, like mood shifts and fatigue spikes. Tracking returns control to you instead of relying on a doctor to interpret your body.
Cycle tracking is the biggest tool that I use with my patients in this age group. If they are getting a cycle and they don't have like an IUD or on the birth control, I have them really trap sleep, bowel habits, mood, body pain, because they start to pick up their own patterns and they see like, ovulation. There's a bump in PMS from ovulation on. Their mood is foul and their fatigue is up. And it helps them connect with, oh, how can I understand my own self? It really moves the locus of control back to them, which is where it should be. I mean, agency is super, super, super important. I'm a collaborator here. I'm the Sherpa. But you know your body better than I do.
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