Oh wow! Damn that's expensive! I guess I shouldn't be surprised if insurance doesn't cover it cause it's "unnecessary". I have Medicare personally and should probably be grateful they cover as much as they do for me without a fight like I hear from a lot of other people. Damn, though! I was fantasizing about doing it once a week and making a little chart with the trends I was seeing... 😂 That's a rough bill. It is so fucked up that a doc can start messing with your hormones without even knowing what they are before that! Everything's just assumption based on how they perceive your symptoms. That's a fight I really wish led to reform in the medical field and insurance company standards cause that should be a basic patient right, I don't care who you are!

From the testing I’ve looked into, at home testing was around $150-$250. I imagine ordering it through a doctor is a lot more. I’m in the US!

Oooh, I'd love to try hormone testing too, at home or through the doc's office. I don't know why docs are so hesitant to do hormone bloodwork when you'd logically figure that since endo responds to estrogen, it'd be important to know just what the estrogen level is at all times! I have the same problem with every doc I've ever seen. They want to stick you on birth control and shove you out of their office, but can't even tell you what your hormone levels are before they start messing with them! How expensive are the hormone tests, do you know? Are you looking in the U.S. or the U.K or another country?