My cycle is all over the place. When is that a problem?

An irregular cycle is a question about timing, and the record weighs it together with sleep, stress and digestion.

A cycle is considered irregular if it keeps landing shorter than 21 or longer than 35 days, if the swing between your longest and shortest month is over about a week, or you skip periods without being pregnant. Those are reasons for a visit, not for self-diagnosis: pregnancy test first, then thyroid and prolactin bloods, and a talk about PCOS if you also have acne, jaw-line hair growth, or difficulty conceiving. Perimenopause makes cycles wander in your forties, and stress, weight change, intense training and shift work all move the calendar too. Chinese medicine reads cycle irregularity mostly through the liver, which in that model is about how smoothly qi and blood move under stress - so the questions it asks are about irritability, PMS, digestion, sleep and whether flow worsens before big deadlines. Whichever vocabulary you use, the useful artefact is the same: six months of dates, flow heaviness and symptoms, taken to a clinician.

Qicura reads a described symptom against this kind of material and returns a pattern in plain language with the sources named. It does not dispense: no herb quantities, no formula composition, no preparation instructions, and no needling technique - those are deliberate limits enforced on the server, not wording we soften for a page.

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