A short YouTube talk by Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explaining that low levels of sex hormones (especially estrogen and testosterone) significantly increase risk of multi-joint pain and accelerated arthritic progression. He notes the clinical recognition of a ‘perimenopausal pain syndrome’ which is often misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia, and links this to provider resistance to hormone replacement therapy.
Low levels of sex hormones increase your risk of joint pain significantly. And it's not just one joint, it's a bunch of joints.
We're learning more and more that patients with low levels of hormones, like particularly estrogen, testosterone, are more prone to arthritic progression, so their arthritis gets worse. There's even a diagnosis of perimenopausal pain syndrome. This is often misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia because a lot of providers are so resistant to doing hormone replacement therapy. So we have to give them a different diagnosis. But it's been proven that low levels of sex hormones increase your risk of joint pain significantly. And it's not just one joint, it's a bunch of joints.
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