perimenopause: what the trials say vs what this community says
perimenopause: what the trials say vs what this community says. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.
The same dose genuinely feels different at different points in the month for me. Took a year to notice and it was in the log the whole time.
Started logging the cycle in the same sheet as the dose. Three months later the pattern was obvious and it had been invisible before.
Anything involving pregnancy, contraception efficacy or fertility planning belongs with a clinician. That is not a disclaimer, it is where the answers actually are.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Trial populations for the major programmes were not designed around the questions this board asks most often, which is why the evidence base here is genuinely thinner rather than merely harder to find.
PCOS is a diagnosis, not a description, and it matters which you mean
PCOS and insulin resistance are the thread that runs through this board
Not convinced by the attribution. That pattern tracks the cycle in your own log more closely than it tracks the dose.