Some benefits of knowing when your period is coming:
– Making sure Aunt Flo & your boyfriend don’t come to town the same day.
– Not having to stuff toilet paper wads down your underpants.
– Not having to use leaves while backpacking through the Amazon.
– Making sure you can make a splash in your new yellow polka dot bikini…
Mobile health is revolutionizing healthcare. People are more educated about their health and more aware of how to manage their health.
There are apps for tracking fitness levels and calories burned, increasing medication adherence, cultivating online support groups for targeted audiences, and predicting when women will begin menstruating.
Some women don’t believe using a phone app to track their period is necessary, but for many women on the run who use their phones and mobile calendars to organize their lives, period apps are extremely convenient.
Whether it’s knowing when to sneak Maxim tampons into the corners of your clutch before a night out or planning a weekend of cliff diving, tracking your period has many benefits.
Benefits:
All of the period tracking apps let you mark the days you are menstruating on your calendar and then predict your next period for you. The accuracy of predictions increases as time goes on.
You can also track your symptoms such as PMS, cramps, and breast tenderness as well as your daily medications. Reminders to take your birth control medication is one of the greatest benefits of these apps.
Being Prepared:
Knowing when your period is coming will allow you to plan ahead. If you’re going on a vacation or planning to be in the water snorkeling or lazing in the pool, you can make sure you don’t leave your tampons at home!
Planning a Pregnancy:
These apps also help women and couples who are trying to get pregnant. Couples can input the days on which they’ve been intimate (normally, a cutesy heart appears on that calendar day). Women can also use the app to track symptoms, basal body temperature, and other fertility indicators.
Apps also inform women of when they are ovulating, which is when they are most fertile, and when a pregnancy test will be most effective. More sophisticated apps have features which allow for more in-depth recordings of your fertility and even link women to online groups.
Peace of Mind:
Knowing when you last had sex or when you last had your period can help your doctor determine if you need any additional tests or screenings. This can be related to conception, STD testing, or even just planning for your regular gynecological check up and pap smear.
Here are some websites that do a good job of comparing apps:
– http://www.appolicious.com/curated-apps/275-menstruation-yeahtheres-an-app-for-that
– http://www.imore.com/2009/09/06/ladies-app-app-review-iperiod-period-tracker-iphone/
Apps to check out for yourself:
– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chris.mydays&hl=en
– http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/period-tracker-lite/id330376830?mt=8
– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alt12.pinkpadpro&feature=related_apps#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEwOSwiY29tLmFsdDEyLnBpbmtwYWRwcm8iXQ..
– http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/period-plus-period-menstrual/id318894849?mt=8
– http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lady-biz-period-menstrual/id286353094?mt=8
– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sleekbit.ovuview&feature=related_apps