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Sippa hormone therapy for women

You're not crazy, but your hormones probably are

Hormone therapy for perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause.

We treat perimenopause and menopause the way we treat each other. Real evaluation, real medicine, and somebody who answers.

Physician-led No required subscription Your own pharmacy Now serving Utah

What is actually happening

The crazy hormone dance

Three hormones, all moving at once, all pulling on different parts of you.

Female hormones

Tap a hormone

Estrogen

Runs far more than your cycle

Brain and moodBody temperatureSleepBoneBlood vesselsSkin and collagenBladderVaginal tissue

Every one of those carries estrogen receptors, so they all take orders from it. When it drops, your brain's thermostat loses its calibration and you get a hot flash. Bone turnover speeds up. Skin loses collagen. Vaginal and urinary tissue thins, and that one doesn't recover on its own.

Progesterone

The calm one, and the first to go

SleepCalmUterine liningCycle regularity

It's made only after you ovulate. From your late thirties you ovulate less consistently, so progesterone falls first, often years before estrogen does anything dramatic. That's why sleep, anxiety, and heavy periods break first, long before a single hot flash. And if you take estrogen and still have a uterus, progesterone isn't optional. It protects the lining.

Testosterone

The one everyone gets wrong

DesireMuscleBone

Yes, you make it, and it peaks in your twenties. Here's the surprise: it doesn't crash at menopause. It declines slowly with age, and a large 2025 study found no measurable difference between women who were premenopausal, perimenopausal, or postmenopausal. The evidence is strong for low desire after menopause and thin for the energy claims it gets sold on.

ONE blood test can't settle this

One ordinary month in perimenopause

Estrogen Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Tuesday Thursday draw
  • Estrogen swings on its way down. Both are true.
  • Some days it runs higher than it did at 25.
  • One draw catches one moment of that.
  • FSH moves day to day too.
  • So we read your symptoms, not a single number.
  • Labs come in when they rule something out.

What is actually happening

The crazy hormone dance

Three hormones, all moving at once, all pulling on different parts of you.

Female hormones

Tap a hormone

Estrogen

Runs far more than your cycle

Brain and moodBody temperatureSleepBoneBlood vesselsSkin and collagenBladderVaginal tissue

Every one of those carries estrogen receptors, so they all take orders from it. When it drops, your brain's thermostat loses its calibration and you get a hot flash. Bone turnover speeds up. Skin loses collagen. Vaginal and urinary tissue thins, and that one doesn't recover on its own.

Progesterone

The calm one, and the first to go

SleepCalmUterine liningCycle regularity

It's made only after you ovulate. From your late thirties you ovulate less consistently, so progesterone falls first, often years before estrogen does anything dramatic. That's why sleep, anxiety, and heavy periods break first, long before a single hot flash. And if you take estrogen and still have a uterus, progesterone isn't optional. It protects the lining.

Testosterone

The one everyone gets wrong

DesireMuscleBone

Yes, you make it, and it peaks in your twenties. Here's the surprise: it doesn't crash at menopause. It declines slowly with age, and a large 2025 study found no measurable difference between women who were premenopausal, perimenopausal, or postmenopausal. The evidence is strong for low desire after menopause and thin for the energy claims it gets sold on.

ONE blood test can't settle this

This is your estrogen in one ordinary week

Tuesday, 9 a.m. Thursday
  • Estrogen swings on its way down. Both are true.
  • Some days it runs higher than it did at 25.
  • One draw catches one moment of that.
  • FSH moves day to day too.
  • So we read your symptoms, not a single number.
  • Labs come in when they rule something out.

Where you are right now

The stage you're in changes the whole plan

Where you are decides what actually helps. The same symptom calls for a different plan depending on the stage you are in.

Still cycling

Perimenopause

It can start ten years before your last period, often while your cycles still look normal. This is where women are most often told nothing is wrong.

Irregular cyclesSleep lossMood swingsWeight shift
The transition

Menopause

Twelve months without a period. Symptoms usually peak here, and this is where hormone therapy has its strongest evidence.

Hot flashesNight sweatsVaginal changesBone health
After

Postmenopause

Some symptoms fade on their own. Vaginal and urinary changes generally do not, and protection becomes as important as relief.

DrynessRecurrent UTIsBone protectionMuscle

The medicine

Here's what we actually prescribe

We treat perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause. Your stage and your symptoms decide the mix.

Estrogen and progesterone

The core of hormone therapy and the most effective treatment there is for hot flashes and night sweats. We reach for FDA-approved bioidentical options first, and progesterone comes along to protect the uterine lining.

Local treatment for dryness and urinary changes

Low-dose estrogen placed right where the problem is, for dryness, painful sex, urgency, and recurring urinary infections. It works on its own, and it works even when full hormone therapy isn't right for you.

Testosterone and DHEA

For low desire after menopause, where the evidence actually holds up. There's no FDA-approved testosterone for women, so it goes off label at low doses, chosen on purpose rather than handed to everyone who walks in.

Thyroid, metabolic, and GLP-1 care

When the pattern points at thyroid or insulin resistance, we treat that instead of stacking hormones on top of it. When midlife weight is part of the picture, GLP-1 medication is on the table alongside your hormones, not in some separate program.

Non-hormonal options

Real choices when hormone therapy isn't right for you, including FDA-approved non-hormonal medication for hot flashes, plus direct treatment for sleep when hormones alone don't fix the 3 a.m. wake-ups.

Your plan is one plan. Hormones, weight, sleep, skin, and hair handled by the same clinician who already knows your history, instead of four appointments that never talk to each other.

When you feel it

You'll feel it sooner than anyone told you

Within days

The nights settle

As night sweats quiet down, sleep starts coming back. Most women notice this one first, and it changes everything else.

1 to 2 weeks

Hot flashes ease

Fewer, shorter, less intense. The daily temperature ambushes start backing off.

4 to 6 weeks

You feel like yourself

Mood steadies, energy returns, and we fine-tune your dose. Dryness and urinary changes take a little longer and keep improving for a few months.

Everyone responds differently. We adjust to how you actually feel, not to a number on a page.

Why Sippa

Not a hormone storefront

The whole midlife picture

Hormones, weight, sleep, intimacy, hair, and metabolic health in one practice, with one team that knows your history.

Evidence before trends

FDA-approved options first. Compounding only when there is a clinical reason for it, and we say so when we use it.

No medication lock-in

Fill at your own pharmacy, usually on insurance. You are not buying medication from us.

We stay in the thread

We monitor, adjust, and answer after the prescription. That is the part every subscription program skips.

Getting started

Three steps. Then somebody answers

01

Tell us what has changed

A brief medical intake covering your symptoms, history, and what you have already tried.

02

Meet with your care team

Physician-led care from a consistent clinical team that knows your history, not a form and a shipment.

03

Start and adjust treatment

We begin treatment, follow how you respond, and adjust. Labs are ordered when they can rule out other causes or guide treatment.

What it costs

You are not buying medication from us

Most menopause brands bundle the medicine into a monthly fee and mail it to you. Stop paying and the prescription stops. Sippa is built the other way around.

  • Cash-pay visits with no required subscription
  • Prescriptions filled at your preferred pharmacy
  • Insurance often covers the prescription itself
  • Labs are separate from the visit fee
  • Visits are HSA and FSA eligible
  • Itemized superbills for insurance submission

Your care belongs to you

Straight answers

Ask me the awkward ones

How do I know whether it is perimenopause?
Perimenopause is identified from your symptoms, history, and cycle changes rather than a single test. It can begin ten years before your last period, often while your cycles are still regular. Menopause is confirmed once you have gone twelve months without a period. We map the pattern with you and consider other causes that can look similar.
Do I need hormone testing?
Usually not. Perimenopause and menopause are typically identified from your symptoms, history, and cycle changes, not a single hormone test, because levels fluctuate substantially during this stage. We order labs when they can rule out other causes such as thyroid disease or low iron, or when they help guide treatment. Labs are separate from the visit fee.
Is hormone therapy safe?
For most healthy women under sixty who are within about ten years of menopause, the benefits generally outweigh the risks, and telehealth is a well-established way to deliver this care. Your own history matters most here, so your clinician goes through it with you before prescribing, and will tell you straight if hormone therapy is not the right call for you.
What types of hormones do you prescribe?
Mainly estradiol and progesterone, using FDA-approved bioidentical options first. We also treat dryness and urinary changes with local estrogen, and use testosterone or DHEA for low desire after menopause. Compounding is available when there is a clinical reason for it, and compounded medications are not FDA approved, so we tell you when that applies.
How quickly might symptoms improve?
Faster than most women expect. Sleep often settles within days as night sweats quiet down, hot flashes usually ease within one to two weeks, and by four to six weeks most women feel substantially better while we fine-tune the dose. Dryness and urinary changes take a little longer and keep improving over a few months. Everyone responds differently, and we adjust to how you feel.
What does Sippa cost?
You pay a cash-pay visit fee with no required subscription, and prescriptions are filled at your preferred pharmacy, where insurance often covers the medication itself. Labs are separate from the visit fee, visits are HSA and FSA eligible, and we provide itemized superbills for insurance submission. Our pricing page has current numbers.

Built for our sisters. Opened for yours.

Send me everything

The sweats, the sleep, the mood, the weight, the hair, all of it. We'll read the whole picture and tell you what's actually driving it. Then we treat it.

Brief medical intake No required subscription Now serving Utah