Anyone else not track their cycle?

[Anonymous]

I see so many posts from women on this forum in their 40s and 50s usually who are concerned out about cycles being too long or too short or spotting or whatever. I literally don't track my period at all. It seems pretty regular still, but I wouldn't know if it were 24 days or 32, nor does it seem important to me to know. I figure that once I start skipping periods, it'll be obvious when it's been over a year and I'm fully menopausal. In the meantime, what do I have to gain by paying so much attention to it that I'm stressing myself out over any little irregularity?

[Anonymous]

I didn’t track for a very long time. The only reason I do it now is because the timing of my breast MRIs has to be done in a certain window after my last period so I just kind of like to know a few months beforehand how long my cycles are for scheduling.

[Anonymous]

I just put a “*” on the calendar and then when I feel weird a month later I can check and be like, yeah. Or if I’m going on a trip I can look and see if I should bring tampons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t track for a very long time. The only reason I do it now is because the timing of my breast MRIs has to be done in a certain window after my last period so I just kind of like to know a few months beforehand how long my cycles are for scheduling.

I’m the OP and I also have to get breast MRIs. I just call and schedule them the first day of my period and they always get me in between days 7-14. But I get your reasoning too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just put a “*” on the calendar and then when I feel weird a month later I can check and be like, yeah. Or if I’m going on a trip I can look and see if I should bring tampons.

me too, everything you said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just put a “*” on the calendar and then when I feel weird a month later I can check and be like, yeah. Or if I’m going on a trip I can look and see if I should bring tampons.

me too, everything you said.

the main reason I do it is so I don't have to stress about it. because not knowing when it's supposed to come feels more stressful to me than tracking it by making a mark on the calendar when it comes.

[Anonymous]

I've had an IUD for almost 10 yrs and havent tracked a single thing since I got it lol.

[Anonymous]

Me. Had 2 kids. No longer on BC. Husband was snipped. Im nearly always surprised by my cycle. Sometimes the bloating the week before gives me a hint.

[Anonymous]

I don't. I have a vague sense of when it should come but usually it's more like, man my boobs hurt. When did I have my period last month? The 10th-ish? And today is the 3rd? Ok, should be soon.

[Anonymous]

I have never tracked. I was on BC forever so it was always pretty easy to know.

[Anonymous]

Mainly to understand (and predict) my mood swings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see so many posts from women on this forum in their 40s and 50s usually who are concerned out about cycles being too long or too short or spotting or whatever. I literally don't track my period at all. It seems pretty regular still, but I wouldn't know if it were 24 days or 32, nor does it seem important to me to know. I figure that once I start skipping periods, it'll be obvious when it's been over a year and I'm fully menopausal. In the meantime, what do I have to gain by paying so much attention to it that I'm stressing myself out over any little irregularity?

I’m the OP of the other thread today and I never really tracked either but I was 28 days like clockwork and I usually just kind of had it in my head so I could check a calendar and know when j needed to make sure to have a tampon in my purse. But when it starts to get weird and you suddenly get your period after two weeks or have random brown spotting mid cycle you can’t help notice and once I went through doc appts and US for this a year and a half ago I started tracking so I could be aware of changes and see patterns etc

[Anonymous]

I don’t unless I’m having sex (currently single). I’m also only 37 and have a teen who runs the periods in this house.

[Anonymous]

Yes- when I was trying either to get pregnant or not get pregnant- but not in my late 40s/50s.

[Anonymous]

I do because if I'm emotional I want to be able to see how many more days of PMS I have to endure.