Medical disclaimer

Educational content, not medical advice

Everything NavPoorna publishes — guides, journal articles, free trackers, replies to your emails — is information. It explains how a body works, what may be happening, and what is worth asking a professional. It is written to make you a better-informed participant in your own care, not to take the place of the person providing that care.

No doctor–patient relationship

Reading a guide, buying one, or writing to us does not create a doctor–patient relationship. Our clinical reviewers read our guides; they have not read your history, your reports or your symptoms, and they cannot advise on your case. Nothing here is a personal recommendation for you.

What a guide can do, and what it cannot

It can give you the words.

Half of being taken seriously in a consultation is describing what you feel in a way that can be acted on. That is a large part of what these guides are for.

It can help you notice a pattern.

Tracked over a cycle or two, symptoms stop being a vague complaint and become something a doctor can work with.

It cannot diagnose you.

A diagnosis needs a history, an examination and usually tests — from a clinician who has you in front of them.

It cannot decide about treatment.

Whether to start, change or stop anything — including hormone therapy — is a decision for you and your clinician, taking your history into account.

It cannot replace a test, an examination or a follow-up.

No guide, tracker or article is a substitute for being seen.

When to stop reading and get seen

A guide is the wrong tool for a symptom that is new, severe, getting worse, or frightening you.

If something in a guide sounds like you, take it to a doctor rather than acting on it alone. A good one will be glad you came prepared.

How these guides are made

Every guide is written by our editorial team and reviewed before publication by a practising Indian gynaecologist. What that review covers — and what it does not — is set out in full on our clinical advisory page. What matters here is the limit of it: a reviewer checks that the guide is accurate and honest. A reviewer is not your doctor, and has not seen you.

Reader notes and testimonials

The notes from readers shown across this site are individual experiences, published to show what using a guide can feel like. They are not typical results, not clinical evidence, and not a promise that the same will happen for you. They are edited for length, clarity and privacy; the sense of each one is the writer’s own.

Guidance changes — read the date

Women’s health guidance moves. Recommendations that were standard a decade ago are not any more, and practice differs between clinicians and between states. Every guide carries the month and year of its last clinical review; read that date alongside the content. If a guide and current guidance disagree, follow your clinician, and tell us so we can correct the guide.

Third-party services and links

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• Guides are delivered by email and by download links; the services that carry those emails have their own terms.
• Where we link to another organisation — a medical body, a helpline, a study — the link is there for information. It is not an endorsement of everything else that organisation publishes.

Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, NavPoorna is not liable for loss arising from decisions taken on the basis of our content. Nothing on this page limits a right you have under Indian consumer law, or excludes a liability that cannot lawfully be excluded — including for our own negligence, or for anything we have stated fraudulently.

Asking us something

If a guide raises a question you cannot resolve, write to us. We answer questions about what a guide says and where it came from. We cannot answer questions about your own symptoms, reports or treatment, and we will say so plainly rather than guess at it.