"It's my hormones."

[Sushirolls]

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Psychiatrist here:
I feel in my outpatient practice I have been seeing an uptick of women theorizing that their mental health symptoms, be it depression, anxiety, "ADD" or whatever, at time of consult, state "it's my hormones."

Are y'all seeing an uptick, too, in this?

 

[anonperson]

Psychiatrist here:
I feel in my outpatient practice I have been seeing an uptick of women theorizing that their mental health symptoms, be it depression, anxiety, "ADD" or whatever, at time of consult, state "it's my hormones."

Are y'all seeing an uptick, too, in this?

I get a steady flow of patients who want their hormones checked. What exactly for, I'm not sure.

When I ask them what specifically or why, I don't get a specific answer.

 

[Sushirolls]

Has the trend been up or down in past 5-10 years or about the same?

 

[anonperson]

Has the trend been up or down in past 5-10 years or about the same?

I think it comes in small waves. Basically depends on what is big on social media like Tik Tok, Instagram etc

I'll have a run of patients ask similar questions etc and when I inquire further it's usually something that was posted online etc that prompted them.

 

[dozitgetchahi]

Psychiatrist here:
I feel in my outpatient practice I have been seeing an uptick of women theorizing that their mental health symptoms, be it depression, anxiety, "ADD" or whatever, at time of consult, state "it's my hormones."

Are y'all seeing an uptick, too, in this?

Rheumatologist here.

Yes. Except that the symptoms are fatigue, malaise, “brain fog”.

If I can’t come up with a rheumatologic reason for these symptoms (usually there isn’t), then the next request is “can you check my hormones”.

 

[sloh]

Rheumatologist here.

Yes. Except that the symptoms are fatigue, malaise, “brain fog”.

If I can’t come up with a rheumatologic reason for these symptoms (usually there isn’t), then the next request is “can you check my hormones”.

Then they go to ID for “chronic Lyme” haha