KnowMeno — Menopause Intelligence

Questions

You get fifteen minutes. Make them count.

KnowMeno is the first intelligence tool built to get women the treatment they need — connecting what you feel to what your body is actually doing. Here is how it works, answered straight.

Getting started

  • What is KnowMeno, in one sentence?

    An intelligence tool that connects your symptoms to your biometrics — sleep, heart rate, temperature, recovery — and turns the pattern into something your doctor can act on inside a fifteen-minute appointment.

  • So it is a symptom tracker?

    No. Tracking is the input, not the product. Plenty of apps will let you log a hot flash.

    What KnowMeno does is correlate — your warmest nights against your worst next days, your sleep against your mood, your treatment against whether anything actually changed. That correlation is the intelligence, and it is the part you cannot do in your head or in a notes app.

    The goal is not a nicer record. It is getting you treated.

  • I already track symptoms in my notes app. Why is this different?

    A notes app records. It cannot correlate. It will never tell you that your hardest days follow the nights your temperature ran high, because it has no idea what your temperature did.

    KnowMeno pulls in your wearable data and lines it up against what you logged. Then it structures the whole thing — frequency, severity, timing, what clusters with what — so the summary already exists when you walk in, instead of you reconstructing fourteen months from memory while the clock runs.

  • My doctor already brushed me off. Why would a report change anything?

    Because it changes what is on the table, and what the fifteen minutes get spent on. “I have been exhausted and irritable for a year” is a feeling, and feelings are easy to wave off — so the appointment becomes you trying to be believed.

    “Forty-one hot flashes in thirty days, clustering between 2 and 4 AM, with disrupted sleep on twenty-three of those nights, and overnight temperature elevated on the nights before the worst days” is evidence. Now the appointment is about what to do next.

    The report also hands you the questions to ask, written from your own numbers. Some women use it to get a referral to a menopause specialist — that is a legitimate outcome too.

  • How long before I see anything useful?

    Immediately. Your score appears the first time you log — a number, a band, and a starting point, with no waiting period.

    Day 7 is when patterns start to surface. Day 30 is when the report covers a period substantial enough to bring to an appointment. Day 60 is when the app can show direction — whether things are improving, and whether treatment is the reason.

  • Do I have to log every single day?

    No. Gaps are normal and the app does not punish you for them. More consistent logging produces a more reliable picture, and the report states plainly how many days you logged — so your clinician knows exactly what they are reading.

    Most logging takes seconds. A hot flash is one tap.

  • I took the assessment. Is that the same as tracking?

    No — the assessment is one day. It gives you a real score and a starting point, but a single number is a snapshot.

    What convinces a clinician is the pattern: how often, how severe, at what time, and whether it is getting better or worse. That needs weeks, not minutes.

  • I do not know what stage I am in. Can I still use it?

    Yes. “I am not sure” is one of the options during setup, and the app works from there. Figuring out where you are is part of what tracking is for.

  • I am already on HRT. Is this still useful?

    Arguably more useful. Log your dose and timing and the report shows symptom change alongside it — the exact question a prescriber needs answered at follow-up: is this working, and where is it not.

    That question does not go away after one visit. It returns at every dose change.

Scores & reports

  • What is the Menopause Impact Score?

    A single number from 0 to 100 for how heavily your symptoms are landing, built from what you logged that day — presence and severity across every symptom you record. Higher means a heavier load.

    It is shown in plain bands rather than clinical jargon, and it appears from your very first log.

  • Why does my score change so much day to day?

    Because symptom burden genuinely does. That variation is the useful part — it is what reveals your triggers, your cycle timing, and the nights that precede your hardest days.

    The app also shows a 7-day average alongside the daily number, so you can see the trend underneath the noise.

  • What is the Vitality Score, and how is it different?

    The Impact Score is for perimenopause and menopause, when symptoms are the main event. The Vitality Score is for postmenopause, when they are not.

    After menopause the questions change — recovery, fitness capacity, and the markers that quietly drift. The Vitality Score reflects that shift, and it sits alongside a Fitness Score based on estimated fitness age.

  • What happens to my history when I move into postmenopause?

    Nothing is lost. Your Impact Score history carries forward alongside the new Vitality Score. Stage transitions do not reset or hide anything you have built.

  • What is Data Confidence?

    Every report opens by scoring itself — how many days you logged, which inputs are present, and how complete the picture is. Your clinician can see in one glance whether they are reading a rough sketch or ninety days of solid data.

    It is also the honest version. A report built on twelve scattered days says so, which is exactly what makes a high-confidence one worth reading.

  • What do you mean by “correlation”?

    Your wearable knows things you cannot feel. It knows your skin temperature ran 0.4°C above your baseline on fourteen nights. It knows your overnight heart-rate variability dropped before certain days.

    KnowMeno lines those signals up against what you logged and shows where they move together — warmer nights preceding more hot flashes, worse sleep preceding heavier days, treatment against symptom change.

    These are associations within your own data, not proof of cause. But they are the specific, dated observations that turn “I feel awful” into something a clinician can work with.

  • How does this help in a fifteen-minute appointment?

    Because the recounting is already done. Most of a short appointment gets spent on you trying to reconstruct months from memory while the clock runs, and on your doctor trying to work out how bad it really is.

    The report answers both before you sit down — how often, how severe, at what time, what it correlates with, and what has changed since last time. That leaves the fifteen minutes for the actual decision: what to try, and how you will both know whether it worked.

  • What is actually in the report?

    Twelve sections. Data confidence, a written clinician summary with flagged labs and screening gaps, cycle and bleeding, symptom frequency and direction, wearable correlations, mood and sleep, hormone therapy and response, lab results, preventive screenings, discussion points for the visit, a plain-language summary for you, and the methodology behind all of it.

  • Is the report written for me or for my doctor?

    Both, separately. Your doctor gets the clinical version — the format they read all day. You get the same findings in plain English: what is getting worse, what your wearable noticed, what your labs mean, and the exact questions to ask.

    Same data, two languages. You do not need a medical degree to follow your own report.

  • Can I send the report to my doctor?

    It generates as a PDF. Bring it, email it, or hand it across the desk. Nothing goes to a clinician unless you send it.

Stages

  • Is this only for women in menopause?

    No. It covers perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause, and what it emphasises changes with each.

    Perimenopause is about recognition — cycles shifting, symptoms arriving without an obvious cause. Menopause is about response — symptom load and whether treatment is working. Postmenopause is about the decades ahead.

  • What changes after menopause?

    The questions change entirely. Symptoms quiet down, but cardiovascular risk climbs, bone density falls, and fitness capacity becomes the number that matters most.

    Postmenopause is roughly a third of a woman’s life, and managing it well is a longevity project rather than a symptom-relief one.

  • How does the app know what stage I am in?

    You tell it. Stage is self-reported at setup and you can change it any time in your profile — it is not inferred from gaps in your logging.

    If you are not sure, say so. That is one of the options, and the picture gets clearer as you track.

  • I had a hysterectomy. Does this still apply?

    Yes. Surgical menopause is one of the stage options at setup, and tracking works the same way. The timeline is different — it arrives abruptly rather than gradually — which is exactly the kind of thing worth having a record of.

Devices, labs & setup

  • Which wearables connect?

    Oura, Fitbit, Garmin, Whoop, and Withings. You connect once and sleep, resting heart rate, and temperature deviation flow in on their own.

  • What about Apple Watch?

    Not yet. Apple Watch data comes through HealthKit, which needs a native iOS app rather than a web one. That build is in progress and Apple Watch support arrives with it.

    We would rather say “not yet” than list it and have you find out after signing up.

  • Do I need a wearable at all?

    No. Everything core works from what you log by hand, including your score. A wearable removes manual work and adds overnight signals you cannot self-report — sleep quality, resting heart rate, temperature shifts.

  • How do lab results get in?

    You upload them. Photograph your results and KnowMeno reads the values, flags what is outside range, and lines them up against the symptoms you logged that month — so low iron stops being an unexplained tiredness.

  • I have not had bloodwork done. What then?

    You can order an at-home test through KnowMeno. When your results arrive, you upload them the same way as any other lab.

    Results are not delivered into the app automatically — you always upload them yourself.

  • Is there an app, or is it just a website?

    It installs to your phone from the browser and then behaves like an app — home screen icon, full screen, notifications. No app store required.

    A native iOS version is in progress, mainly to unlock Apple Watch and HealthKit.

  • Is it available in Spanish?

    Yes — the whole app, not a partial translation. Symptom language is difficult to get right in one language and harder in two, so it was built in from the start rather than bolted on.

Medical questions

These belong with your clinician. Here is where we stop and why.

  • Can KnowMeno tell me whether I am in menopause?

    No. Menopause is confirmed after twelve consecutive months without a period, and confirming it is a clinical judgement, not an app’s.

    What the app does is help you see where you are in that timeline and hand your clinician the pattern they need to make the call.

  • Should I be on HRT?

    That is a decision for you and a clinician who knows your history, and we will not answer it here or anywhere in the app.

    What we can do is make the conversation better informed — bring a record of what you are experiencing, and if you are already on treatment, bring the evidence of whether it is working.

  • Can KnowMeno diagnose me or rule anything out?

    No. Nothing in the app is a diagnosis, and several symptoms common in the transition also appear in unrelated conditions — thyroid disease and cardiac issues among them. That is precisely why the report is built to go to a clinician rather than replace one.

    The educational explanations describe what is common during the transition. They are not a statement about you.

  • My report flagged a lab result. What does that mean?

    That the value sits outside the reference range printed on your own lab report. It is a signal for your clinician to look at, not a finding and not a diagnosis.

    Reference ranges vary between laboratories, and a single out-of-range value often means nothing on its own. Interpretation belongs to your doctor.

  • My symptoms are severe. What should I do?

    Talk to a clinician, and do not wait for thirty days of data to do it. Tracking is useful; it is not triage.

    If you are having chest pain, trouble breathing, heavy or unusual bleeding, or any symptom that frightens you, seek medical care now. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line immediately.

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