Why Blood Tests Don’t Define Menopause, Here’s What Really Does #shorts

Name: Why Blood Tests Don’t Define Menopause, Here’s What Really Does #shorts
Uploaded: 2025-11-21T13:02:36+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A clinician (Dr. Charles Mok) explains that menopause is a clinical diagnosis—defined by 12 months without a menstrual period or by surgical removal of…

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A clinician (Dr. Charles Mok) explains that menopause is a clinical diagnosis—defined by 12 months without a menstrual period or by surgical removal of the ovaries—and that routine blood tests are generally not useful or medically necessary to diagnose menopause. Testing may be appropriate in select situations (for example, symptomatic women in their early 40s), but otherwise is often costly and unlikely to change management.

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One way. We don't do a whole lot of blood work for women in menopause to determine if they're in menopause and if hormone therapy would work for them. I'll tell you, it's a very simple answer. The blood tests are usually worthless, and you're spending money on something that's not medically necessary that your insurance typically won't cover. If it's not medically necessary and you should be paying for it if it's not, there's no necessity. Menopause is defined as having no period for a year. Or surgical menopause, where your ovaries are removed and you no longer have the ability to make those through your ovaries, is a clinical definition. There is not a laboratory definition of menopause. So that is very misleading to think that now there is some typical patterns we see and we might do blood work in certain settings. For example, a woman's having menopausal symptoms in her early 40s and maybe she hasn't had a period in a year. Well, yeah, we're going to work her up and figure out what's going on.