contraception

Trying to get a straight answer on this: genuine question about cycle that I am slightly embarrassed to ask. Why the evidence base here is thin, which is not your…

7 months in and cycle is still the thing I get wrong. Same spreadsheet I have been keeping since the start, nothing retrofitted. Since the title puts numbers in the…

87 weeks, 17kg, and PCOS was the hard part, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair. The relevant figures are 87 weeks and 17kg,…

PCOS — my 15-week log, condensed into one table. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Hormonal variation across the cycle affects…

insulin resistance — my 21-week log, condensed into one table. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. Brought the cycle-annotated log…

we are measuring contraception at the wrong time and calling it noise. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here. Went looking for trial data on…

small win: insulin resistance stopped being a problem at week 79. Numbers below. Ask me the boring questions, they are the useful ones. Anything involving pregnancy,…

someone explain perimenopause to me like I have not read a paper in years — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice. Perimenopause and all of…

5 months in and PCOS is still the thing I get wrong. Posting the boring middle of the process, because the internet is full of the start and the end and nothing else.…

perimenopause is doing more work than we give it credit for. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Started logging the cycle in the…

my ApoB moved and I cannot work out whether perimenopause is why. I have gone back and forth on this for months. Fertility can change with weight loss and improved…

small win: perimenopause stopped being a problem at week 52. Full detail below, and I have tried to keep the editorialising out of it. The same dose genuinely feels…

The title is the whole question — cycle — what am I missing here — but here is why I am asking. Insulin resistance is a common feature in PCOS, which is why the…

we are measuring PCOS at the wrong time and calling it noise. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Went looking for trial data on the…

proposal — a flair for insulin resistance posts. Short post, long comment section, probably. The hair shedding was the thing that frightened me most and the thing that…

25 weeks, 12kg, and contraception was the hard part, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair. 25 weeks and 12kg — those are the…

Question in the title, detail here: someone explain fertility to me like I have not read a paper in years. The hair shedding was the thing that frightened me most and…

can we stop arguing about cycle until somebody posts a number. If this has been answered properly somewhere, link me and I will delete. Telogen shedding follows a…

Here it is: small win: PCOS stopped being a problem at week 61. One person, one log, no control group, so read it accordingly. The one practical change that makes this…

stalled for 2 weeks at 12.5mg and I refuse to panic this time. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. The relevant figures are 2 weeks…

what would you tell week-1 you about contraception — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice. The questions that leave this board, and where…

Six-word version is the title — small win: fertility stopped being a problem at week 55 — and the rest is context. Started logging the cycle in the same sheet as the…

The title is the argument: my triglycerides moved and I cannot work out whether cycle is why. Here is the rest of it. Anything involving pregnancy, contraception…

Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: my fasting insulin moved and I cannot work out whether contraception is why. Trial populations for the major…

cycle — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. Trial populations for the major programmes were not…