Host (Ambyr)

don't they do blood tests like when they check your estrogen?

It's in a range from like an age range of women to find like the happy medium.

So is there specific blood tests or questions or things that you should say to your doctor in order to get a perfectly tailored plan that fits for you and what you're experiencing?

Yeah, it's really good.

So there's no definitive test that can tell whether or not you're in perimenopause.

It's a clinical diagnosis.

And so that means that it's something that a clinician or a menopause specialist or somebody that really understands this can make by evaluating your symptoms and your health history.

i am like you like i really i really want somebody who has studied this and paid attention to this and there's the menopause society that has certified doctors that have gone through a certification process to really understand all of this and so i think that what's important is to know that so it's something that a clinician can make by evaluating your symptoms and your health history

And so that's why one of the big things is really keeping track of what's going on with those symptoms.

Because if you're not keeping track of those, you walk into a doctor and one day you might be feeling completely fine.

And then the next day you're feeling like garbage again.

So keeping track of those symptoms.

Some doctors will order blood tests to check levels of estrogen, progesterone, or FSH, which is a follicle-stimulating hormone.

There's the issue.

They measure hormone levels on that particular day.

And hormones are fluctuating, sometimes greatly from one day to the next.

So at this point, according to Menopause Society, there's no simple test for perimenopause.

And the good news in that is that if you do have those different symptoms, because people are like, oh my gosh, I just want a yes or no.

But if you do have an understanding of those symptoms,

and you're in that age range and you don't have reasons that you're not able to take hormone therapy, a majority of women are able to take hormone therapy, that in perimenopause, you can start that.