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Understanding labs from saliva hormone panel

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Hurdity:
Hi Hope22 - CLKD is referring to saliva tests that Izetta has reported on ie for sex hormones - oestrogen and progesterone. I can appreciate your comments about NHS being slower to adopt newer treatments because of the approvals process - but in this case (ie oestrogen and progesterone) it has been demonstrated that saliva testing is not an appropriate way to obtain reliable readings for these hormones so results cannot be interpreted in the same way as conventional testing (blood tests). Do have a look at the link to the other thread I gave in my post below because Dana has explained (and quoted) in detail about this.

Saliva testing of other hormones like cortisol is a different issue - a friend told me about this but not sure how widespread this is on NHS - but I won't pursue it on here as off topic - maybe you might like to start a new thread as it is interesting?

Izetta - have you had any more thoughts about what to do in the light of our comments?

Hurdity x

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