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What Every Woman Needs To Know

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Are at-Home Hormone Tests a Reliable Indicator of Our Health?

Hormone tests in the perimenopause are not very useful for women over 45. There are some tests that you could do at home to check your thyroid level. But I wouldn't recommend everybody takes hormone tests all the time at home just to see because what's it going to tell you? When it comes to something like PCOS, you can have results which are in the normal range, but the ratio of those results changes. And so I would say go to your doctor.

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