Introduction

Tips & Suggestions

Quick Start Guide

Detailed Functionality

Introduction

Do you need to Manage your Menopause?

Are you having trouble adjusting to this new stage in your life or not even sure if you are in menopause? If you’re ready to take control of your menopause, Menopause Diary can help you. Keeping track of your cycles, your physical and emotional experiences on a daily basis is not only a helpful thing to do but can be interesting and rewarding with Menopause Diary. Menopause Diary makes it easy to keep track of your menopause experiences, graphing your patterns, emailing reports, including graphical attachments. Menopause Diary will also allow you to export your data to a spread sheet, and all with just a few screen taps.

Document your cycles, mood, hot flashes, night sweats, sleep, intimacy, food intake, exercise, treatment, laboratory tests, healthy mind, bone and body habits, and the mental and physical symptoms you are experiencing. Track all aspects of this transition period with a few screen taps.

Since your cycles will vary and you’ll even begin to skip periods, the diary helps to track your cycles and flows to manage the different stages of menopause.

Whether you use natural therapies or HRTs, track the effects of the therapies you try (such as increased exercise or other supplements) and adjust those therapies as needed.

Graph your patterns of experiences, email reports, including graphical attachments to your doctor so that she can help you adjust.

Customize many features; export your data to a spread sheet for offline backup and all with just a few screen taps. Enter and track as much or as little information as you like. Please don’t give up until you can manage this transition in your life, become stress-free, symptom-free and happy.

Your Menopause Diary

Start using menopause Diary immediately and take control of your menopause. Once you’ve used it for a while, you will be able to customize numerous features to make it work the way you like, making it easier to take control, improve your life, reduce your symptoms and live the way you want. You can customize all the data, so you can track anything and everything. Your diary will help you analyze and improve your symptoms so that you can begin to manage your menopause better.          

  Support for your Diary includes a public forum for suggestions, questions and answers. We work very hard on making our products complete, easy to use and appealing. We always welcome any suggestion or ideas you might have to improve our products.

Tips and Suggestions

Please read the following Tips & Suggestions section. Your diary is very customizable. To unleash its power you should familiarize yourself with its full potential.

Lists

You can add your own "choices" to all lists. When adding events to your diary, several drop-down lists are shown. Add a choice to the list by typing in a new entry at the bottom of the list. You can also do this from the "Manage Choices" option from the main menu or from the "Preferences" option. All choices can be edited and deleted here also.

Look & Feel & Visual Indicators

All symbols that appear on your calendar can be changed. These indicators help you understand your data. They represent an event that occurred on a specific day. You can also change the theme color for your diary. This customization is done from the "Preferences" option from the main menu.

Columns

All columns that appear in your list view can be changed. This customization is done from the "Preferences" option from the main menu.

Backing Up Your Data

You can email yourself a report with all of your data. This will provide you with a backup of all of your data. Emailing is done by pressing the email button on any of the reports that is provided through the "Reports" menu.

Reports

All reports can be emailed. The emailed report is sent in graphical format and in comma-delimited format so that it can be used in another program such as Excel spreadsheet. Emailing is done by pressing the email button on any of the reports that is provided through the "Reports" menu.

Quick Start Guide

This section guides you through a simple Menopause Diary session.   You will navigate through the common functions to create and view your information.   For help on advanced features go to the Detailed Functionality section.

Recording Menopause Information

You just had a hot flash, what do you do?

  Your data will be more accurate if you record your menopuase symptoms or information in your diary as soon as possible. The Menopause Diary allows for tracking your cycles, mood, hot flashes, night sweats, sleep, intimacy, food intake, exercise, treatment, laboratory tests, healthy mind, bone and body habits, and a host of extras all with just a few screen taps. Enter as little or as much data as you need. Create new items in your selectable lists.

Step 1

Highlight the date and press the add (+) button.

Step 2

Enter the data.  If you have more than one event in a day, don't forget to enter when the event occurred.

Step 3

Finally, press the “Save” button.  If you do not save before exiting, you will be asked to confirm your action. 

Finding your Menopause Information

You have entered several days of information.  You want to see if you recognize any patterns so that you can try and manage your menopause better.  The Menopause Diary Reports will help you do this.  The report analysis will not be useful unless you have a few days of information entered and your data is accurate.  For accuracy, remember to record your data as soon as you can.

Step 1

Navigate to the Reports menu.

Step 2

Select the “Menopause Summary” report.  This is an integral report in determining your predictors and cycles.  It has everything from the most hotflashes to your most frequent symptom or mood.  It also determines your treatment effectiveness. 

Step 3

Select the “Treatment Summary” report.  This provides you with a summary of your treatments. It will help you determine your treatment effectiveness

Step 4

There are several Log reports available. Each log report displays the information integral to the menopuase aspect you are trying to manaage.  

Step 5

There are several Ratio reports available. Each ratio report can be seen in a pie graph or a bar chart. For instance select the “Symptom Ratio” report   to see a graphical view of your symptoms so that you can track and improve any possible problems.

Detailed Functionality

Please note that functionality described here varies from system to system.

This section provides details of the Menopause Diary application.   If you have a specific question that is not answered in this section, please utilize the cellHigh Support to ask further questions or send your questions to Support.

The Menu

The Diary menu is available by pressing the top left arrow by the Menopause Diary program name.  The following table lists the options available through the main menu.

Menopause Diary Menu

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Calendar View  &  List View

When you enter the application, the Calendar View is displayed.  From this view, you can add or edit information for the current day, by highlighting the date from the Calendar View and pressing the add or edit button. To delete an entry, highlight the date and press the delete button.  If you want to see more details, select the List View.  You can even change which fields that display in your list view from the Preferences option.

Calendar View

To customize the look & feel of the calendar, select the Preferences option from the menu

List View

To customize the fields that display in this list, select the Preferences option from the menu

  Adding

To add new information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View then press this add button. The following “Add” information screen is displayed.  Enter the information and then press “save”.

When

Enter the date and time of day of the menopause event. Also, overall how do you feel? On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad or how good do you feel? Don't forget to add any specific comments here.

Bleeding and Mood

Enter your cycle or bleeding and mood information.

Hot Flashes and Night Sweats

Enter the information surrounding your hot flashes and night sweats.

Intimacy and Other Symptoms

Enter information concerning your Intimacy and Other Symptoms or factors that you are experiencing.

Treatment, Healthy Bones and Lab Tests

Enter the treatments that you try. Include any side-effects and whether or not the treatment was effective. This information can be viewed in the Treatment summary and Log reports. The Healthy bones section allows you to record your daily lifestyle choices that effect your menopause. Also, don't forget to record any lab test results here.

 Editing

To edit information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View or List View and then press this edit button. Pressing this button takes the user to the “Edit” information screen.

Editing

Entering information

Saving

 You will be asked to confirm your action if you discard before saving your changes

Deleting

To delete information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View or List View and then press this delete button.  You will be asked to confirm your action before it is deleted.

Deleting

  Select the “Trashcan” button to delete the selected information

Confirmation

  You will be asked to confirm your action before the entry is deleted

Reports

Reports are available by pressing the reports option from the top left arrow by the Diary program name.   After you make your report selection, you will enter the desired date range for your report. The following lists the Diary reports available.

The Report Menu

Summary Reports

         The Summary reports provide you with a summary of the details of your menopause information. The Treatment Summary report summarizes your treatments. 

Log Reports

The “Log” reports list your information for the given date range.   It is viewed in date order.

Statistics

The “Ratio” reports are useful tools that show you numerous statistics in a graphical view.    

 Preferences

Your diary is completely customizable.  You can set preferences for your diary, such as color theme, which fields to display and visual indicators.  Additionally, password protection, backup and login information is set in this scene.

There are four Preference sections. 

In the “General Settings” drawer you have access to the password protection, unit of measurements and date formats.

In the “Application Settings” drawer you can access the “Reset Data” function as well as managing your customizable drop down lists.

In the “Look & Feel” drawer you can access your color theme and what visual indicators or data appears on your calendar and lists.  

General Settings

Password Protection

Tap the “ON” button to enable password protection for your data.  If you enable password protection you will be prompted for the password.  There are no restrictions on password length or content.  Remember this password, as you will be prompted for this password each time you start your application.  To disable the password protection just press the “OFF” button.

Date Format

Select the correct date format for your region from the drop-down list. 

Application Settings

Manage Choices

The Manage Choices section allows you to add data to and edit your customizable drop-down lists.  All lists that appear in your diary can be added to through this option.  For instance, if you have a particular “Symptom” or "Mood" that does not appear in the list, you can add it here.  When you add information to your diary, you can also at that time add new entries to these lists.  These entries can be edited and deleted here also.

Reset All Data

If you want to erase all of your data and start new, you can do this by pressing the “Reset All Data” button.  Since there is no way to reverse this process, you will be asked to confirm if you really want to do this.  NOTE: you can not undo this action, so be careful and make sure that you do not want the data that is currently in your diary.

Manage Choice List

Adding symptoms to the Symptoms List.  To Add an item, you tap the ‘+’.  To Change an item, you tap it; To Delete an item, you ‘swipe’ it and the Delete appears (following figure)

Deleting an Item

Deleting a symptom from the Symptoms List

Look & Feel

Theme

Customize your diary look by choosing from one of the six color themes.

Display Emoticon

You have the ability to select an emoticon that represents an overall feeling about each entry in your diary.  These emoticons appear on your calendar and list views.  If you don’t want them to display, uncheck the display emoticon checkbox.

Visual Indicators

Visual Indicators help you understand your data.  They represent an event that occurred on a specific day.  These settings allow you to select which event and associate an icon with that event.

Text Indicators

The text that displays on your calendar can be turned on or off here.

List View Fields

The information that displays on the List View, can be changed from here.

Theme

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can customize your look by choosing from six color themes.

Text Indicators

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can turn off the display of the text that displays on your calendar.  “Text Indicator 1” displays your flow if any of that day.  “Text Indicator 2” displays your mood of that day.

Visual Indicators

You can customize 3 visual indicators that display in your diary

Visual Indicators

Visual Indicators help you understand your data.  They represent an event that occurred on a specific day.  These settings allow you to select which event and associate an icon with that event.  You can display up to 3 visual indicators on your diary.

For each visual indicator, you select which icon to display if the condition specified is true.  To specify the event, you must select the field, operator and value of the event.   In the example to the left, the “Pain” icon will display if the “Symptom” field equals any value other than “Normal”.  This indicates that you have abnormal symptoms on that day, so the “Pain” icon appears.

Visual Indicators:  Icon List

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can customize your look by choosing from several visual indicators

Visual Indicators: Field List

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can select the field that will trigger the visual icon to display on your calendar