How Roshara works

Start with six questions. You don't need an account to read a word of it.

  1. Find the words for it

    Perimenopause can start years before your periods stop, and often nobody gives it a name. Where am I? asks six questions, then tells you the stage you may be in and gives you the words to say it, in English, Urdu or Roman Urdu.

    • No account needed
    • It gives you questions to take to your doctor

    When you want to know more, Learn has 124 topics, from hot flushes to HRT. Each one gives the Urdu word and names the guidance it comes from.

  2. Put a number on it

    The symptom score lists 27 symptoms. Rate each one from none to severe and you get a single number out of 81. If you're signed out, it's added up on your phone and nothing is sent to us.

    • Take it again whenever you want to see what has changed
    • There's no pass mark and no bands. The number is there to compare with your own last one
    • Save it to your account and your latest score goes into your record for your doctor

  3. Keep a record

    A free account adds a tracker you can fill in in under a minute: mood, energy, sleep, hot flushes, and tags for your symptoms and what might have set them off, like hot weather, chai or a missed meal.

    • Log what you take, any side effects, your test results and your appointments
    • See your sleep, mood and hot flushes charted over the weeks
    • Set reminders. For now they only work while Roshara is open in a tab
    • Your logs are yours. Nobody at Roshara reads them

  4. Take it to your doctor

    Send your record to your doctor's email address, with a note of what you most want to talk about. It covers everything you're taking, the side effects you've logged, your test results, your own notes and your latest symptom score. It arrives as one message, with nothing attached and no link to click.

    • Prefer to print? Download a PDF of your treatments, charts and notes from your dashboard
    • Roshara adds no diagnosis and suggests no treatment, and the message says so

  5. Hear from women going through it

    Anyone can read the community. With an account you can post and reply, and you post anonymously unless you choose otherwise. What you post is public. If something crosses a line, report it and a person at Roshara reads it.

What Roshara will never do

  • Diagnose you, or tell you what to take
  • Name a dose
  • Sell your data, or advertise against it
  • Rule on a question of faith. We point you to qualified scholars

What Roshara does is report what published guidance says, name where it says it, and point you to the person licensed to decide.

Start with six questions

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