xenial (1) cycle.1.gz

Provided by: cycle_0.3.1-11_all bug

NAME

       cycle - a calendar for women

SYNOPSIS

       cycle

DESCRIPTION

       Cycle  is  a  calendar  program for women. Given a cycle length or statistics for several periods, it can
       calculate the days until menstruation, the days of "safe" sex,  the  fertile  period,  and  the  days  to
       ovulations, and define the d.o.b. (date of birth) of a child. It allows the user to write notes and helps
       to supervise the reception of hormonal contraceptive tablets.

FEATURES

       The program is capable of:

        - Calculate of the days of menstruation, based on length of the cycle or on statistics of a period.
        - Calculate the "safe" sex days, fertile period and day to ovulations
        - Definition of D.O.B . (Date Of Birth) of a child
        - Allows to write notes
        - Helps to supervise reception of hormonal contraceptive tablets

HOW DOES IT WORK

       It uses the calendar method for the definition of fertile  days.  For  this  is  necessary  to  determine
       duration, at least, of last six cycles. For determine the fertile days it uses this algoritm:

        - First day: duration of shortest cycle minus 18
        - Last day: duration of longest cycle minus 11
        -  Ovulation: is considered in the middle of fertile period (Determine the exact day isn't possible with
       the calendar method)

       Date of a birth of the child is counted from the  beginning  of  last  menstruation  (in  obstetrics  are
       accepted  40  weeks).  This  date is corrected with the duration of a cycle (are subtracted or added same
       number  of  days  that  a  cycle  differs  from  28  days).   Is   possible   check   the   results   at:
       http://cir.msk.ru/sroki.shtml (in Russian)

USAGE

       It is necessary to mark the beginning of menstruation. This is possible clicking with the right button on
       the date and chosing "The beginning of a cycle". Similarly the mark can be  removed.  Using  duration  of
       last six cycles, the program will calculate

        - Fertile period - green cells
        - Ovulation day (the middle fertile period) - brightly green cell
        - Beginning of following menstruation - pink cells

       Cycle duration is set in options or is calculated an average of last six periods.

       To determine prospective date of a birth of the child, it is necessary first day of last cycle to mark in
       addition as "Pregnancy".

       Depending on your purposes, you can display only "Safe" sex days or only fertile days. Information  about
       interesting day can be received clicking with left button.

       Is  possible  adding  a  note  to  any  date  using  corresponding  item of the menu. Day with a note are
       underlined.

       It is necessary to note that factor of failures of calendar contraception method  is  about  10  percent.
       This method is suitable only for women with enough regular cycle.

       If  your  doctor  has  recommended  hormonal  contraceptive  this  program  will  help to supervise their
       reception. Closely familiarize with the instruction  applied  to  the  chosen  preparation.  Packing  can
       contain  21  tablet  (the  circuit of reception 21 day on one tablet, then 7 days pause) or 28 tablets in
       this case all tablets are accepted without interruption every day of 28. In the program, is  marked  only
       day of reception of each first tablet of packing.

       NOTE:  This  program  is  not  a  reliable  contraceptive  method. It does neither help to prevent sexual
       transmision diseases like AIDS. It is just an electronic means of keeping track of some of  your  medical
       data and extract some statistical conclusions from them. You cannot consider this program as a substitute
       for your gynecologist in any way.

FILES

       ~/.cycle
              This is the directory where cycle stores the data.

AUTHOR

       cycle was written by Oleg S. Gints.

       This manual page was written for Debian by Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>.

SEE ALSO

       You can find cycle's home page at: http://cycle.sourceforge.net/

       More information about calendar method are available  at:  http://www.mama.ru/gynecolog/STA/st18.htm  (in
       Russian)