Pregnancy tests, ovulation tests…and now the latest in tests you can do in your bathroom laboratory- Menopause Tests! Clear Blue™, who sell ovulation predictor kits and home pregnancy tests, has come out with an over-the-counter kit to help women who are “confused and wondering if what you’re feeling is the start of the menopause journey, or perhaps something else.” All you need to do is pee on a stick, and you will know if you are pre-menopause, perimenopause or post-menopause.

So, what’s the deal with these kits? 

For more information on this topic: 



Episode 1: Is It Menopause or Some Other Pause?



Episode 23:  Welcome to Peri-menopause



Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen



Episode 53 Not All Hot Flashes  Mean Menopause  



Episode 106 It’s Time to Redefine Menopause 



Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat



Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society. 



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Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain



Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat



Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever



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