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Laboratories Give Us Feedback On This Subject Text Scroll This Chapter Check Out Doctor DeMarco's Recommended Health Products Perimenopausal Menstrual Cycle Symptom Diary Form The Daily Perimenopause Diary:

Copyright 1991, Dr. Jerilynn Prior.

This form will help you become aware of the way your body responds to the menopausal changes in your life and to any treatments. Although this form is mostly self-explanatory, I have provided additional information so your record-keeping can best help you (and your physician, if you choose to share it). Please take a minute before you go to bed each night to record the information about your day. The scale at the top goes from 0 to 4, zero represents something you did not experience and four represents the worst it has ever been for you. The scale at the bottom uses letters to indicate if feelings or body symptoms go up or down from your usual "(U)" or normal state. Please start filling in the form on the first day of your menstrual flow.

MENSTRUAL FLOW: You are requested to evaluate the amount of your flow on that day. Use the number scale 0-4 provided on your Diary Form to indicate the intensity of flow. A "1" would be spotting and "4" is changing pads or tampons every 2 hours or having clots. If you have no flow or no longer have your uterus, ignore this line.

BREAST TENDERNESS: You are being asked to note both front and/or side breast soreness. Touch firmly with the palm of your hand to determine if you have breast tenderness there. There may be very little soreness, but the pressure will feel different, for example, from the same pressure on your leg.

FLUID RETENTION: This means feeling bloated or puffy, with water weight gain and getting up to urinate at night.

HOT FLUSHES: Record the actual number of hot flushes you experience in the rows labelled "# Flushes-day" and "# Flushes-night". Please record the intensity of or how strong the hot flush was in the other box using 0-4 scale above. A "1" would be a feeling of slight heat and a "4" would be dripping wet all over.

MUCOUS SECRETIONS: The mouth of the uterus (cervix) makes a clear stretchy fluid when estrogen levels are high. If mucous can be stretched out 6-8 cm (3-4") between two fingers or pieces of tissue, this is an estrogen effect.

STRESS AND FEELINGS: you are asked to record how you feel each day and to evaluate the amount of stress that is part of your life. These two things are not the same. Record feelings on the numbered scale and outside stresses on the bottom scale (with letters). For example, on a given day you may not feel anxious. At the same time you may judge the stresses in your life to be a little more than usual because of a work deadline you had to meet. Please write your comments at the bottom of the column. This may include any particular event which influenced how you felt that day (for example, report if you are ill, have a job promotion, win a major prize, have an argument with your partner). Additional comments or explanations may be noted on the back of the form.

This form is designed to help you better understand the changes you are experiencing. It will also help us to understand. Eventually, through data-gathering like this, a large body of understanding will accumulate so our daughters will be more prepared than we are for their "menopausal years".

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