Symptomatic days

Symptomatic Days lists cycle days (Day N) where you logged symptoms at Moderate or higher—not calendar dates and not a PMDD diagnosis. Open Reports → Overview and scroll past the trends chart and phase rows to Symptomatic Days after you log on Home or daily tracking.

What Symptomatic Days means in the app

• Each row is a cycle day (Day N), not a calendar date.
• A day qualifies when at least one symptom is logged at Moderate (4), Severe (5), or Extreme (6) on the six-level scale—Minimal and Mild do not count.
• Overview ranks symptom-type trackable items only; life factors and other non-symptom types are excluded.
• This summarizes your tracking; it is not a clinical label for symptomatic cycles under PMDD criteria.

Open Symptomatic Days on Reports Overview

How the list is built and ordered

• Data comes from symptom-type daily logs at Moderate or higher—log on Home or in daily tracking before expecting rows here.
• Across every cycle in your selected range, the app groups logs by cycle day number and sums moderate-or-higher severities into a severity score per day.
• Up to five cycle days appear, sorted by highest severity score first—a highlight reel, not every hard day you logged.
• Row labels read Day followed by the cycle day number (for example Day 22), not a month-and-day calendar string.
• When the list has at least one row, a short explanation line appears under the header: days of your cycle with moderate or higher symptoms based on your tracking history.

Expand a day and inspect symptoms

Same section on Cycle Detail and trackable item screens

• On Cycle Detail and numeric symptom item screens, the same moderate-or-higher filter and explanation line apply, with the same expand-and-modal behavior as Overview.
• On boolean life-factor-style item detail, one explanation line under the header shows the total times you logged that item across the cycle days listed—not a per-day count in that line and no moderate+ threshold. Expanded rows list individual log dates without the grouped symptom modal.

Empty, loading, and sparse tracking

• Symptomatic Days shows its own progress indicator while that section loads—separate from any brief Overview load on first visit. The block reloads when you change cycle range.
• With no qualifying logs in range, the section shows No symptomatic days found.
• Thin results usually mean too little moderate-or-higher logging, a narrow cycle range, or missing period boundaries—log more days or widen the range before drawing conclusions.

Why Symptomatic Days matters for PMDD tracking

PMDD criteria focus on timing and severity of symptoms across cycles—often in the luteal phase. Seeing which cycle days repeatedly rank highest can help you prepare for hard windows and bring concrete examples to a clinician. The app summarizes your logs; it does not diagnose PMDD or count “two symptomatic cycles” for you.

• The app lists cycle days (Day N), not DSM-style symptomatic cycle labels.
• Overview Symptomatic Days is moderate-or-higher symptoms only—mild intensities and life factors are handled on other screens or excluded.
• The five-day cap is for quick scanning—use daily logs and export when you need a complete record.