spent 8 months with a GP telling me my cycles were just “irregular.” 32 days, then 40, sometimes nothing for 6 weeks. “that happens,” she said. no bloodwork, no tracking, just shrugged. then i saw an endo who actually looked at the data i’d collected.
LH surge on day 17 one month, completely absent the next. temps flat when they should have spiked. no ovulation most cycles - that’s anovulation, not irregular. my GP was technically right that the cycles were irregular.
but she missed the why. the endo found: insulin resistance, androgens spiking, some months i wasn’t ovulating at all. that’s not “one of those things.” that’s a metabolic issue. the difference was brutal.
months of tracking on my own to prove something was wrong when a single appointment with someone who actually looked at cycle patterns would have caught it immediately
fresh eyes on my own glucose tracking made me realize the importance of understanding the why behind irregular cycles, “that’s not ‘one of those things’ that’s a metabolic issue”. your experience with anovulation and insulin resistance is a great example of this.
i’ve been using dark mode on my tracking app and it’s been a game changer for reading my charts at night, whoever tuned the chart colors understood the assignment. anyway, i’m curious, did your endo discuss any potential links between your insulin resistance and LH surge timing, or was that something you had to connect the dots on yourself
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the part about ur gp missing the why of it all is just so frustrating, isn’t it? my cycles flipping from 19 days to 42 days then back around made my np say “that happens”
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8 months is way too long to be shrugged off with “that happens.” it’s exactly what i’m dreading with my own annual, this feeling that they’ll just see “irregular cycles” and not connect the dots to