Female Hormone Test

The female hormone blood test checks your 4 main hormones – oestrogen, progesterone, FSH and LH – along with other important biomarkers that can cause a hormone imbalance, such as thyroid markers.

For Women Not in Perimenopause or Menopause
This test can help you understand your fertility, menstrual health, and overall well-being. If you experience irregular periods, acne, fatigue, or difficulty conceiving, our female hormone test can identify imbalances in oestrogen, progesterone, FSH, and LH. These insights can help with fertility planning, diagnosing conditions like PCOS, or optimising your health through lifestyle and medical interventions.

For Women in Perimenopause or Menopause
As hormone levels fluctuate during perimenopause and menopause, testing can provide clarity on symptoms like hot flashes, mood swings, and sleep disturbances. It also helps guide decisions about hormone replacement therapy (HRT), ensuring treatment is tailored to your needs for symptom relief and long-term health support.

Hormone imbalances in women can be caused by various factors, including natural life stages like puberty, pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause, which lead to shifts in oestrogen and progesterone levels.

Conditions such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can also disrupt hormone balance, causing irregular periods and fertility issues.

Chronic stress increases cortisol, which can interfere with reproductive hormones, while poor diet, lack of sleep, and excessive exercise may contribute to imbalances.

Other factors include thyroid disorders, certain medications, and underlying health conditions. Identifying the cause through hormone testing can help manage symptoms and restore balance for overall well-being.

Symptoms of a female hormone imbalance can vary depending on which hormones are affected but often include irregular or missed periods, heavy or painful menstruation, and difficulty conceiving.

Other common signs include unexplained weight gain or loss, fatigue, mood swings, anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances. Women may also experience acne, hair thinning, or excessive hair growth, particularly with conditions like PCOS.

Low libido, vaginal dryness, and night sweats are common in perimenopause and menopause.

Checking your hormone network with our female hormone test can help you understand the cause of these symptoms and give you the information you need to seek treatment or make lifestyle changes.

Yes, our female hormone test is suitable for women using HRT.

It can be used to monitor your hormone levels when using HRT, giving you insights into whether it’s working for you and empowering you with data to take to your GP to alter your medication.

If you use HRT gel, we recommend taking your blood sample from a finger on the hand that doesn’t come into contact with the gel or wearing a glove when applying it. This helps prevent contamination of your sample.

The first step in treating an imbalance is to understand what the problem is. Some imbalances are natural, such as during your menstrual cycle, as there is nothing to treat.

Imbalances caused by conditions like PCOS or thyroid disorders may require medication. You should speak to your doctor about your options after receiving your results.

Lifestyle changes may be the answer to your hormone imbalance. Obesity, lack of sleep and high-stress levels can all impact your hormone network. Changing your diet, getting more exercise and reducing your cortisol levels through better sleep can all help to rebalance your hormones.

Your results will include commentary from one of our medical team, who will advise on what you should do next.

Yes, there are 3 options for collecting a blood sample for the female hormone test;

1. At-home finger prick – done by you
2. At-home phlebotomy appointment – done by a nurse or phlebotomist
3. Clinic appointment – done by a nurse or phlebotomist

Your information and results are completely confidential. We won’t share them with anyone other than you. Your results are delivered through our mobile app, which you’ll need an account to access. All packaging is discreet, too.

Your blood test results will be delivered to your account within 2 days of your sample reaching our labs.

If you order your test before midday on a Monday to Friday then your kit will be dispatched the same day.

All our kits are sent out via Royal Mail Tracked24, so it should be with you within 1-2 working days.

We have strict processes in place to ensure the protection of your data. Following GDPR the company also operates under tight legal rules about the sharing of data which ensures that data is only shared if it is crucial to the delivery of our service. For example, our doctors see customer results at the time of review, however, after review, access to results is withdrawn.

Learn more about your data security.

Yes. We offer two options if you do not want to do our finger prick test. The first is a home appointment where a nurse comes to your home to take a blood sample. The second is to visit a Phlebotomy clinic near you that offers a blood sample service.

A blood sample will be taken from your vein and we will provide you with everything you need to give to the nurse to allow them to take the sample.

The nurse will give you the blood sample to return to us using the pre-paid envelope provided.

We have a team of doctors and nurses who look at all results and will comment on any results that are outside of the normal range for your age.

Yes, you can download your results from your health dashboard as a PDF to share with your GP.

Learn how to export your results.