Menopause Testing

Testing for Peri-to-Post Menopause

 Hormone blood tests seeking to diagnose Peri-to-Post Menopause are not an informative or reliable approach.  Day by day, hour by hour our hormone levels are fluctuating and a reading on one day, could read totally different 24hrs later and this can be very misleading.

Peri-to-Post Menopause is generally indicated by symptoms and often age is an additional factor considered.  Generally speaking from mid-40s onwards symptoms and changes recognised by the individual, are signal enough to attribute to this phase of life.

Unfortunately, so many women seek or are advised to use blood tests as the primary indication through their GPs, to be then told everything is normal.  Even more upsetting is often thereafter, they’re prescribed anti-depressants to ‘cope’ with changes they perceive, but GPs can’t detect – because the bloods didn’t say menopause!

The knock on effect of that can be significant and lead to more questions and very little answers.  Incorrect diagnosis of depression often follow and so it spirals.

Of course it is always wise to seek advice when changes are happening, and bloods can be very important where the symptoms are not directly linked to the stages of menopause. 

For those that do not fall within the more general ranges of peri-to-post menopause, there are specific tests and paths to explore with professionals, and significant changes and symptoms should never be ignored.

But to rely on an outcome of hormone indicators purely linked to menopause through bloods as a diagnosis will not bode well.  It can be an expensive rabbit hole with frustrating and confusing results.

I hear so many women I coach say this is how things started out for them.  

Does this sound familiar?

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