What Is HormoneIQ™ for Ivim’s Women’s Hormone Health Program? Understanding Perimenopause and Menopause Symptoms, and How We Track Them Over Time
Your symptoms have a story. HormoneIQ™ helps us provide individualized care.
Fatigue that is persistent. Sleep that feels lighter or more disrupted than it used to. Changes in mood, focus, or metabolism you can’t quite explain. If you’ve noticed these kinds of shifts, you’re not alone, and you’re not imagining things.
Perimenopause and menopause symptoms rarely show up one at a time. They build gradually, overlap in unexpected ways, and often show up across different parts of your day which can make them harder to connect, or even harder to describe in a single appointment. HormoneIQ™ is designed to bring more clarity to that experience, so you and your provider can look at the full picture together.
Source: Kapoor et al., Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2025
More than 80% of women experience menopausal symptoms, yet only about 1 in 4 receive treatment. That gap isn’t about personal failure. It’s a gap in how care has been delivered.
Why Ivim built this
Here’s something most people don’t know: there’s no single test that confirms perimenopause or menopause. Labs can offer a snapshot of hormone levels at a moment in time, but they don’t always capture how you feel, how your symptoms are changing, or whether a treatment is actually working.
We wanted a better way to validate what women are actually living through. To assess whether treatment is helping. And to track that over time, not just at one appointment, but across the full arc of care. HormoneIQ™ is how we do that. It’s one thing that makes our care model different, and it’s something we built because we believed it was necessary, not because it was expected.
“Hormones don’t operate in isolation. When we understand how they interact with metabolism, sleep, and mood, we can build a plan that actually reflects the whole you.”
— Dr. Jessica Duncan, Chief Medical Officer, Ivim Health
What is HormoneIQ™?
HormoneIQ™ is Ivim Health’s proprietary symptom assessment for perimenopause and menopause. It evaluates hormone-related symptoms across six domains of health, produces an individualized score, and tracks how that score changes over the course of treatment, giving providers and patients a structured, ongoing view of symptom burden and care progress.
HormoneIQ™ looks at six domains that are commonly affected by hormonal changes during perimenopause and menopause: vasomotor symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats; sleep and energy; mood and irritability; mental cognition, including focus and memory; vaginal and sexual wellness; and body composition.
Within each domain, you rate how much specific symptoms are affecting your daily life. Your responses create a complete picture of what you’ve been experiencing across all six areas, not just the one or two symptoms you might mention in a visit.
Why tracking menopause symptoms over time matters
Hormones don’t stay static, and neither do the symptoms linked to them during perimenopause and menopause. Some changes happen slowly while others fluctuate week to week. And it’s not always easy to remember exactly when something started, or whether it’s improved since you last spoke with your provider.
HormoneIQ™ is designed to be completed more than once. As your treatment takes effect, we track how your score changes over time, which helps us understand whether your care is working or whether something needs to adjust. That’s how we individualize your care over time, rather than guessing.
How hormones affect different parts of the body
Hormones play a role in regulating a wide range of functions, which is why perimenopause and menopause can show up in so many different ways at once. You might notice changes in energy levels or persistent fatigue, sleep quality, mood or emotional steadiness, focus and mental clarity, or body composition and metabolism.
Because these systems are all connected, symptoms often overlap rather than appear in isolation. That’s part of what makes a more comprehensive view useful, and part of why a single lab result or a brief check-in often isn’t enough to see the full picture.
How HormoneIQ™ fits into your care at Ivim
HormoneIQ™ isn’t meant to replace conversations with your provider. It’s there to guide those conversations. At follow-ups, your provider can look at your current and previous responses side by side, to understand how things have evolved, and to bring the right questions to your visit, rather than starting from scratch each time.
There’s also space to share any side effects or changes ahead of your appointment, so nothing important gets left out. From there, your provider looks at everything together, your symptoms, your history, your progress, and together you decide what makes sense for your care moving forward. It takes just a few minutes. And it changes what’s possible.
Key takeaways
- More than 80% of women experience perimenopause or menopause symptoms, but most don’t receive treatment
- There is no single lab test that confirms perimenopause or menopause; symptoms are central to the picture
- HormoneIQ™ is Ivim’s proprietary symptom assessment, designed to evaluate and track hormone-related symptoms over time
- It covers six domains: vasomotor symptoms, sleep and energy, mood, cognition, vaginal and sexual wellness, and body composition
- Tracking scores across visits helps providers and patients see whether treatment is working, and where to adjust
- HormoneIQ™ supports provider conversations; it doesn’t replace them
Frequently asked questions
What is HormoneIQ™?
HormoneIQ™ is Ivim Health’s proprietary symptom assessment for perimenopause and menopause. It measures hormone-related symptoms across six domains and produces a personalized score that you and your provider uses to guide and track your care over time.
Why am I filling this out instead of just doing bloodwork?
Because symptoms tell the story that labs can’t. There is no single blood test that confirms perimenopause or menopause, and hormone levels can fluctuate significantly from day to day. HormoneIQ™ captures how you’re actually feeling across multiple areas of your health, which is often more clinically useful than a lab snapshot alone.
Is HormoneIQ™ instead of bloodwork?
No. HormoneIQ™ works alongside any lab work your provider recommends. It adds a layer that labs don’t always capture, so your provider has both pieces of information when making decisions about your care.
What happens to my answers?
Your responses go directly to your Ivim care team. Your provider reviews them before and during your consultation, and they become part of your ongoing care record, so your progress can be tracked from one visit to the next.
Will this change my treatment?
It can. HormoneIQ™ gives your provider a more complete view of your symptom burden, which may inform how they approach dosing, which areas to prioritize, or when to adjust your plan. At every follow-up, your provider compares your current score to your previous one, so treatment decisions are based on your actual progress, not assumptions.
Is there a test for perimenopause?
There is no single definitive test for perimenopause. While hormone levels like FSH and estradiol can be measured, they fluctuate widely and are not always reliable on their own for diagnosis. Perimenopause is typically identified based on symptoms and menstrual changes over time, which is exactly what HormoneIQ™ is designed to capture.
What are common perimenopause symptoms?
Common perimenopause symptoms include hot flashes, night sweats, disrupted sleep, fatigue, mood changes, brain fog, changes in libido, vaginal dryness, and shifts in body composition or metabolism. Many women experience several of these at once, often without recognizing them as hormone-related.
Find out where you stand across six domains of hormone health, and give your provider the full picture.
Discover your HormoneIQ™
Disclaimer: HormoneIQ™ is a proprietary assessment tool developed by the Ivim medical team. It is not a diagnostic instrument and is not intended to replace clinical evaluation. Ivim intends to study HormoneIQ™ outcomes across enrolled patients, with findings to be submitted for peer review and publication. Prescription medications, if recommended by your provider, are billed separately.
