| Women's Hormonal & Reproductive Health
Hormones & Periods
Sourced guides to hormonal health and periods: hormonal imbalance symptoms, fatigue and other everyday symptoms, and when to see a doctor.
Your hormones shape your cycle, your energy and your mood. When periods become irregular, very painful or heavy, or when PMS starts to take over part of every month, it is worth understanding why.
These guides cover hormonal imbalance symptoms, irregular and missing periods, period pain and heavy bleeding, PMS and PMDD, and which hormone tests can help, with clear advice on when to see a doctor.
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- Hormonal Imbalance Symptoms in Women: Signs, Causes and When to See a Doctor
- Period Every 2 Weeks in Perimenopause: Causes and When to See a Doctor
- Worse PMS in Your 40s? PMS, PMDD and Perimenopause Explained
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Hormone Testing
Which hormone tests are useful and which aren't: the FSH test in perimenopause, the AMH test and checks for hormonal imbalance, with what the results can and can't tell you.
Irregular & Missing Periods
Irregular or missing periods are one of the most common reasons women see a doctor, and the causes range from stress and thyroid problems to PCOS and perimenopause.
Period Pain & Heavy Bleeding
Severe period pain and heavy bleeding are not something you simply have to put up with.
PMS & PMDD
How to tell PMS from PMDD, how to track symptoms across your cycle, and what helps, from exercise and painkillers to SSRIs, CBT and the pill, with an honest look at supplements.
