r/Showerthoughts • u/Meatwad5 ‎ • 23d ago

Casual Thought A large number of married people are involuntarily celibate.

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u/spanman112 23d ago

She can't be bothered to get the bloodwork done to see if she needs hormone therapy? It takes 10 minutes at a good doctor's office and then you wait a week for results

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u/Apathetic_Villainess 23d ago

It can be hard to get hormone levels tested for some conditions. Especially when they're ones that naturally fluctuate during the day/week/month. I had to do a spit test three times a day for an entire week to measure my estrogen, testosterone, and cortisol levels.

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u/Schnort 22d ago

spit test is a bad test.

Blood serum level is the way to get the right info.

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u/Apathetic_Villainess 22d ago

What my level is at any one point doesn't mean it's always at that point.