What’s {Creighton} Got to do With it?

There are many methods out there (some more tested than others) and seemingly new apps to track your cycle every day. You want to know more about your health, potential struggles (or actual struggles) with infertility, and to be able to confidently chart your cycles to use however you intend (for your health, avoiding pregnancy, or achieving a pregnancy). So what’s Creighton got to do with that?

Creighton has a LOT to do with it (cue, what’s love got to do, got to do with it). As I’ve gone over before, I want to list a few indicators that can be identified on your chart that can help with discovery of your symptoms, charting, or infertility.

Thyroid Issues

Indicators on your chart such as: your blood flow (which you will chart), mucus cycle (yes, this method checks for cervical mucus. But don’t get the wrong idea, we discourage internal exams!), what cycle days your mucus cycle is, as well as the length of the mucus cycle can give us information if you have indicators of thyroid conditions. This list is not exhaustive, but an idea.

PCOS/PCOD - or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome/Disease

Continuous bleeding (or even abnormal bleeding), cervical mucus that never seems to go away, long cycles (more than 38 days), insulin resistance that makes you feel like total garbage any time you remotely eat something with carbs (not to mention the delicious looking ice cream sundae across the way), as well as other side effects like high testosterone that causes hair growth (thicker and more excessive). Not to say you’ll experience all, or even any of these per se, but they can all be symptoms of PCOS (or PCOD) that we can look for on your chart.

Low Progesterone

Some indicators of low progesterone could be: tail end brown bleeding, spotting (the amount of days are also important), PMS symptoms, a short post peak phase (you’ll learn what this means when you chart) and can often be the culprit behind miscarriages as well. As Jenny has written in a previous blog, it’s also good, once you’ve started treating your progesterone issue, to see what the underlying cause could be.

Any of these, or any combination of these and many others not named can be the culprit behind symptoms, abnormal charts, or struggles with infertility and miscarriage. We do recommend working with one of our Napro doctors as well after you’ve begun charting so they can run the appropriate testing and diagnosis for you and they will use your Creighton chart to find the appropriate days for testing and which tests to run.

Now, if you’ve read some of my other blogs, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of also adjusting the foods you eat, especially to help reduce inflammation and other factors, as well as supplements, exercise, and drinking a other of water. But to answer the question we started out with…what’s Creighton got to do with it? A lot. Reach out to a Creighton Practitioner to help discover your health and fertility.