Why Your Symptoms Guide Hormone Therapy Better Than Lab Tests #shorts #menopause #hormones

In conventional medicine, when a woman is in menopause and maybe she's treated with a menopause drug, we're not checking the labs, there's no necessity for it. But in the bioidentical space, somebody's been given hormone replacement therapy. Sometimes a lot of laboratory testing being done, and I feel it's totally unnecessary. It's very expensive, very confusing, other than when there's an unusual case. Or we might check the labs when somebody symptomatically improved with their hormone replacement therapy and something seems amiss. If somebody has too much testosterone, more agitation, oily skin, just adjust the dose. Too little estrogen, hot flashes, night sweats, brain fogginess, and I've seen it should never be done. I'm saying I think it's maybe overdone in the bioidentical hormone world.