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Are You Entering Menopause? The Follicle Stimulting Hormone (FSH) May Not Hold the Best Answer
March 2, 2009
You’re approaching the age and are wondering if you could be entering menopause but you want to know for sure. Traditional doctors often rely on measuring the follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in blood or urine to provide the answer, but is it really accurate?
Firstly, symptoms are often the first indicator that you may be entering menopause; hot flashes, fatigue, mood swings, weight gain, etc. are often a good hint in a bad package. But when you want to know for sure, you ask your doctor and more often than not the answer is the FSH test. The follicle stimulating hormone is secreted by the pituitary gland to stimulate the production of estrogen and progesterone by the ovaries; the idea is that when you enter menopause, the ovaries stop producing these hormones and the FSH increases in a vain attempt to reestablish hormone production.
The FSH can be skewed by several factors and additionally, why test for FSH when you can test your estrogen and progesterone and be positive of the results? Furthermore, testing FSH may tell you that you are in menopause, but then what? Testing your estrogen, progesterone and other hormone levels will not only provide you the answer that you want, but it will also tell you which hormones you are deficient in or have an excess of (because it’s not the same for every woman).
We all live very different lifestyles and there are many factors that affect hormone levels, including food and environmental surroundings. Instead of just knowing you are in menopause, isn’t it better to know you are in menopause, know your hormone levels and know what your body needs to relieve your symptoms and get back to normal? Knowing the condition (menopause) without knowing the details (hormone levels) won’t be much help or comfort at all.
So, if you feel like you are entering menopause and have a hormone imbalance, ask for full hormone testing. We suggest saliva to measure your sex hormones and especially your cortisol and serum or blood testing to measure your insulin and thyroid hormones.
Above all remember, menopause is treatable.
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