The range of menstrual calendar apps is growing in smartphone program stores. Just write “menstrual cycle” so that dozens of apps that advance the arrival of menstruation and warn when you are on fertile days come before our eyes. But do they really work? And if so, which ones are the best?
Indisa Clinic gynecologist and obstetrician Gissele Pérez told hoyxhoy that all these applications can be a great contribution to female life, but that there are some that are more complete than others. For her, the best one is named Clue and is free.
“As you enter the data requested by the same application you are doing an average menstrual cycle calculation. Since not all have the same cycles, many worry and say: ‘chuta, the rule comes to me every 23 days or every 32 days’ and that in the end is normal because the average of days is 28, but this is the general average, to which you have to subtract seven days that would be 21 and add 7, which would be 35. So, in general, normal cycles range from 21 to 35 days.”
Prior to the existence of these applications, these calculations had to be done on paper, which created problems because you had to start counting each cycle and adding it up and doing the average. Which, of course, was not always done with the required thoroughness. “Instead, now that gap is made by applications. One enters the data month by month and when you already have three, four or five, the application itself is telling you that your average cycle lasts X number of days,” Perez said.
This is also useful for gynecologists, as it helps them know if a patient’s cycle is okay, very short, or very long.
Based on the data given by the users, the app tells them the approximate day when the rule will arrive, and it does so quite accurately.
Fertile days
“Based on each patient’s cycles, these apps tell them their ovulation day and around that are the fertile days,” he highlighted as another of the main attributes of these medical programs especially for those who seek to be mothers and want to calculate the date of their co ncepción.
