Tracker
Perimenopause symptom tracker
A weekly tracker for five symptoms and your bleeding pattern, with a trend line and a summary you can copy for an appointment. It saves to your own browser rather than to an account, so there is no email to give and no login to remember, and a delete button that erases everything.
Free. No email required. No signup required. Takes about 2 minutes. Scored entirely in your browser: your answers are never stored or sent anywhere. Your score is shown next to the average for your age band.
The tracker
Five symptoms, one per domain, plus what your bleeding did this week. It takes about twenty seconds. Save it and it appears in the table below, with a score on the same weighted scale the main check uses so the numbers mean the same thing.
Why weekly, and why these five
Daily tracking is the standard for cycles and the wrong resolution for this. Perimenopausal symptoms are driven by hormone levels that swing over weeks, so a daily entry records noise while a weekly one records the thing you are actually trying to see. It is also the interval people sustain. A tracker abandoned in March tells you nothing in June.
The five are one from each area the check scores, plus sleep, which sits underneath most of the others. Hot flushes for the vasomotor domain, trouble sleeping and joint aches for the physical, anxiety for the psychological, and sex drive for the sexual. Five is short enough to fill in honestly and wide enough that the pattern across them means something.
Bleeding is recorded separately because it is not a symptom in the same sense. It is the criterion the staging system reads, and the one piece of information a clinician will ask for that no symptom score substitutes for. The STRAW+10 stages all turn on it.
Where your entries are stored
Worth stating precisely, because this page is the one exception to a promise made everywhere else on this site.
- They are saved on your deviceEntries are written to this browser's local storage, which is a store your browser keeps on the machine you are reading this on. That is what lets a tracker remember last week.
- They are never transmittedNot to us, not to anyone. There is no server to receive them, no account behind them and no request that carries them. You can verify it the same way as the rest of the site: open your browser's developer tools, watch the network tab, and save a week.
- We cannot read themLocal storage is readable only by this site running in your own browser. We never have a copy, so there is nothing for us to lose, sell or hand over.
- You can delete all of itThe delete button in the tracker erases every saved week. Clearing this site's data in your browser settings does the same. Neither requires asking us, because you hold the only copy.
- It is per-browser and per-deviceEntries saved on your phone will not appear on your laptop, and a private window will usually refuse to save at all. That is a consequence of not having an account, and it is the trade this design makes.
Our privacy policy was updated to describe this before the tracker was built rather than after, which is the order that page commits us to.
Using it at an appointment
The copy button produces a plain text summary of every week you have saved, which you can paste into your notes app, a document, or a message to yourself. It is deliberately plain text so it goes wherever you need it without anything being uploaded.
- Bring the trend, not the worst weekA single bad week is easy to discount, by a clinician and by you. Six weeks showing a pattern is a different conversation, and it is the conversation this tracker exists to enable.
- Pair it with your cycle datesThe bleeding column is the beginning of that, but the lengths of your recent cycles and your longest gap carry the staging information. Bring those too.
- Three months beats three weeksIf your appointment is not urgent, starting now and going in with a quarter of data is more persuasive than going in tomorrow with one entry.
For a fuller picture in one sitting rather than over months, the two-minute check scores sixteen symptoms across four domains, stages your cycle, and prints a doctor summary. The tracker shows change over time; the check shows depth at a moment. They answer different questions and pair well.
What not to track, and what to act on
Some things do not belong in a weekly log, because logging them delays the response they need.
- Any bleeding after twelve months with no periodThis needs prompt in-person assessment rather than an entry in a tracker. It is frequently caused by something benign, and it is investigated regardless.
- Bleeding that is very heavy or prolongedSoaking through protection hourly, passing large clots, or bleeding that will not stop. Record it if you like, but book the appointment first.
- Thoughts of harming yourselfContact your doctor or an urgent helpline today. Nothing in a symptom log is more important than that, and no trend line should be waited for.
None of these routes carries a sponsored link, on this page or anywhere on this site.
Sources
- Harlow SD, Gass M, Hall JE, et al. Executive summary of the Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop +10: addressing the unfinished agenda of staging reproductive aging. Menopause 2012;19(4):387 to 395. The staging criteria the bleeding column exists to feed, which turn on cycle length variation of seven days or more and gaps of sixty days or more.
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Menopause: identification and management. NICE guideline NG23, published November 2015, last updated November 2024. Recommendation 1.2.2 on symptoms commonly associated with menopause.
Common questions
Is there a free perimenopause symptom tracker with no account?
This one is free, needs no email and no signup, and has no login. Entries are saved by your own browser on your own device rather than to an account, which is why there is nothing to sign into and nothing for us to hold. A delete button erases everything whenever you want.
What should I track in perimenopause?
A small number of symptoms you will actually record every week, plus your bleeding. This tracker uses hot flushes, trouble sleeping, joint aches, anxiety and sex drive, one from each area the main check scores. Bleeding matters most of all, because cycle pattern rather than symptoms is what the staging criteria read.
How often should I track perimenopause symptoms?
Weekly. Perimenopausal symptoms follow hormone levels that swing over weeks, so daily entries mostly record noise, and weekly is the interval people sustain long enough to produce a usable trend. Three months of weekly entries is far more persuasive at an appointment than three weeks of daily ones.
Where is my tracker data stored?
In your browser's local storage, on the device you are using, and nowhere else. It is never transmitted to us or anyone else, because there is no server behind this site to receive it. We cannot read it. You can delete all of it from the button in the tracker, or by clearing this site's data in your browser settings.
Will my entries sync between my phone and my laptop?
No. Entries live in the browser you saved them in, so a phone and a laptop keep separate records, and a private or incognito window will usually refuse to save at all. That is the direct consequence of having no account, which is the trade this design makes deliberately.
Can a symptom tracker diagnose perimenopause?
No. Nothing diagnoses perimenopause from symptoms alone. UK guidance identifies it in otherwise healthy women aged 45 and over from recently started vasomotor symptoms together with a change in the menstrual cycle, and no tracker, quiz or blood test replaces that assessment. What a tracker does is give you evidence of a pattern to take into it.
Start with a full picture
A tracker is more useful once you know where you are starting from. The check scores sixteen symptoms across four domains, stages your cycle, and prints a summary you can take to an appointment.
Six weeks of evidence is harder to wave away than one bad morning.
Take the 2-minute checkFree, no email, no signup. Scored entirely in your browser. Screening, not diagnosis.