Irregular menstrual cycle

Irregular cycles are common

It seems surprising that most women have a rather irregular cycle. About 70% of all women have a cycle with strong fluctuations. In short, the length of the cycle varies from menstrual cycle to cycle by 8 days or more*. It is therefore all the more surprising that in many places in medicine the concept of the standard cycle is encountered. This is based on the fact that the female cycle is about 28 days long in almost all women. According to this concept, ovulation would always be in the middle of the cycle. At OvulaRing we can tell you that this is not at all the case.

An irregular cycle is not the same as an unhealthy cycle. You can be just as fertile. This is very important. Irregular means that your menstrual cycles don’t fit into a rigid pattern that has grown over the years. You can find out everything you need to know about irregular cycles on this page. Here you can also find out how you can safely determine your ovulation and fertile days. Or would you like to know how you can get pregnant with irregular cycles?

Classification and demarcation of other cycle types

The group of irregular cycles usually includes the PCOS cycle and in most cases also the long cycles. This is because a longer cycle length is usually also accompanied by a higher fluctuation in the intervals between periods.

The regular cycle is the antithesis of the irregular cycle. If 70% of women have a rather irregular cycle, only 3% have a regular cycle. The variation in the length of the cycles is only a maximum of ± 3 days. Also, short cycles are not usually irregular. In most cases, a shorter cycle length is accompanied by a smaller fluctuation in the length of the cycle.

Other types of cycles can occur regardless of whether they are regular or not.

Brief overview:

What are irregular cycles characterised by?

Cycle lengths or period intervals vary by more than ± 8 days
70% of all women have irregular menstrual cycles*.
Even with irregular cycles, certain cycle patterns repeat. OvulaRing detects these independently of the cycle length.
OvulaRing is also clinically tested for irregular cycles. It reliably tells you if and when you are ovulating.

Calculate ovulation with irregular cycle

Ovulation also occurs with irregular cycles

Irregular cycles can be perfectly healthy and show ovulation. Only here it is much more difficult to determine the exact ovulation day. Often short and long cycles alternate with early and late ovulations. The individual cycle patterns can be very different in each case. Despite their supposed irregularities, they nevertheless show recurring patterns.

OvulaRing recognises these patterns and therefore your ovulation. It doesn’t matter whether your cycle is short, long or irregular.

How do long cycles happen?

In women with long menstrual cycles, the first phase of the cycle is often prolonged. This means that the egg maturation or follicular phase is significantly longer than the ovulation phase. 70% of all women with very long cycles still ovulate and have fertile days. So with a long cycle you can get pregnant in principle. For the remaining 30%, the cycles are either completely without ovulation (monophasic) or there is a weakness of the corpus luteum or progesterone. In the latter case, the second half of the cycle is shorter than 10 days. In this case, not enough progesterone is released and pregnancy cannot develop.

With OvulaRing you can find out exactly whether you are ovulating despite long cycles. OvulaRing tells you whether you are ovulating during your cycles. In this way you can also find out whether you have a progesterone deficiency, for example.

OvulaRing helps you to accurately recognise your fertile days

OvulaRing detects ovulation with a certainty of over 99%. Finally get clarity about whether you ovulate regularly and if so, at what time. Your menstrual cycle is measured automatically and completely unnoticed by OvulaRing. This makes it possible to detect even small fluctuations.

OvulaRing has been tested in independent clinical studies for all cycle types. Even with very long cycles, you get precise information about your fertile days and your cycle health.

These women have become pregnant with irregular cycles

"Through OvulaRing I finally learned that I have irregular and also prolonged cycles. However, my cycles still showed regular ovulations. What a relief to finally be able to keep track of my own cycle health!"

"Two years of unfulfilled desire to have a child, visits to the fertility clinic and three artificial inseminations later, I was finally pregnant. I have never tried a more convenient cycle tracking device. This ring is an absolute asset for all women!"

"After stopping the pill, my cycles became longer and longer. I went from a 30 day cycle to 40 days and finally I was at a 60-90 day cycle. I started using OvulaRing because the normal ovulation tests were not meaningful to me."

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How OvulaRing works

1. Wear OvulaRing

OvulaRing is inserted into the vagina like a tampon when your period stops. Independent of external influences, it automatically records your temperature inside the body. A value is recorded every 5 minutes and your individual fertility patterns are recognised.

2. Transfer data

The recorded data is simply transferred with the OvulaRing app. The evaluation of your menstrual cycles is also displayed here. You can also keep a menstrual cycle diary and receive important information. The security of your data has top priority.

3. Evaluate cycle

The app analyses your menstrual cycle with the help of medical algorithms. In addition to menstrual cycle length, ovulation day and length of the menstrual cycle phases, you are also offered medical evaluations. There is a daily probability of conception and an ovulation forecast for the following month.

OvulaRing is a medical cycle tracker and even more

Suitable for all menstrual cycle types

Is your cycle ultra short, extremely long or irregular? Thanks to the high resolution, continuous measurement, OvulaRing can be used for all cycle types and it has been validated for the most diverse cycle types in 3 medical studies.

Continuous measurement

The patented OvulaRing method does not identify fertile days by means of the basal temperature. OvulaRing measures and analyzes core body temperature 288 times a day, enabling it to identify individual fertility patterns that allow a precise statement to be made regarding cycle activity.

Practical and not noticeable

OvulaRing is simple to use and unnoticeable. When wearing OvulaRing you can still do sports, go in the sauna, have sex and enjoy your life. Automatic measurement within the body delivers precise findings, regardless of the rhythms that determine your life.

Analyzes your cycle and delivers results in real time

OvulaRing can tell you precisely whether you are ovulating and if your cycles are healthy. When OvulaRing has gotten to know your individual cycle pattern the evaluation software also analyzes your likelihood of conceiving.

Developed by gynaecologists and clinically tested

OvulaRing is based on 40 years of scientific research by renowned gynaecologists and reproductive health experts. The accuracy of OvulaRing has been proven in independent medical studies.

free of hormones and no side effects

OvulaRing works completely without hormones and is free of plasticisers and side effects. The high level of wearing comfort and tolerability of the material have been confirmed in multiple medical studies.

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* Raith-Paula et al, Natürliche Familienplanung heute, 5. Auflage, 2013, S. 134