Confused about hormone levels????? Don't worry, so is your doctor!! Hormone levels are actually really difficult to test because they are constantly shifting. In certain cases an excess or deficiency can be detected but this is not an imbalance. Hormone levels can be perfectly normal, yet an imbalance can still exist. The best way to understand if a hormonal imbalance exists is via a hormone symptom profile. It's simple. If a symptom exists, then an imbalance exists, and then it's just a matter