Yes, people with PCOS can absolutely use Oova! Oova delivers personalized insights tailored to your unique hormone patterns—so you don’t need to have a standard cycle length or textbook hormone levels to benefit from the platform.
PCOS often causes irregular cycles and hormone imbalances, which can make it difficult to understand your menstrual cycle, try to conceive, or navigate transitional phases like perimenopause. That’s where Oova excels—by adapting to your body rather than expecting your body to follow a fixed pattern.
We recommend the Extended Cycle Kit for people with PCOS, especially if your cycles are longer than 35 days or irregular. It includes 60 test strips (30 LH/PdG and 30 E3G), offering the flexibility to test daily over an extended cycle, test twice daily to catch rapid hormone changes, or monitor across two cycles.
How to Use Oova if You Have PCOS
When you download the Oova app, you’ll complete a personalized onboarding process, just like any Oova user. The information you provide helps our algorithm determine which days you should scan, based on your cycle data and health goals.
The goal is to track key hormone patterns:
- The estrogen (E3G) rise before ovulation
- The LH surge signaling ovulation
- The progesterone (PdG) rise that follows, confirming if ovulation occurred
With PCOS, these events may not follow a predictable timeline. While the standard Cycle Kit (30 strips) may capture some of this, the Extended Cycle Kit provides more flexibility—ensuring you’re covered even if your hormone shifts happen later or less predictably.
Oova also learns from your data over time. With each cycle and every test result or symptom you log, the app refines your scan schedule to better align with your personal hormone profile. This is especially helpful for people with PCOS, whose baseline hormone levels may differ significantly from clinical averages.