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Hormone Replacement Therapy

We offer BHRT to help ease the symptoms of menopause, but also to treat a variety of conditions that women of all ages may experience.

Unbalanced hormones can make you feel like a stranger in your own skin. However, bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is a way to restore balance and help you feel like yourself again.
Hormone therapy designed specifically for your body.
Anyone who has been through puberty knows that hormones have a powerful effect on one’s body. Hormones affect many areas of your health, including your mood, your metabolism, and your sexual and reproductive function. If your hormones become unbalanced, whether due to menopause or other factors, you may end up feeling like a stranger in your own skin.
BHRT is most often prescribed to ease the symptoms of menopause, but it also can be used to treat a variety of conditions that women of all ages may experience, including:
  • Pre-menstrual syndrome
  • Irregular menstrual cycle
  • Moodiness
  • Infertility
  • Post-partum depression
  • Weight gain
  • Endometriosis
  • Fibrocystic breasts
  • Sleep disturbances
  • Hot flashes
  • Night sweats
  • Decreased libido
  • Painful sexual intercourse
  • Vaginal dryness
These conditions affect millions of women. As the number of women seeking hormone-related treatment has grown, so has the mass production of pills, patches and creams by the drug industry. However, each woman’s body is different and has its own unique needs, but commercially manufactured products tend to be “one-size-fits-all,” and do not always account for the differences between individuals.

No two women are alike, of course, and compounding pharmacists understand this fact.
Pharmacy compounding is the art and science of preparing customized medications for patients. The advantage of compounded BHRT is that it can be adapted specifically to fit each individual’s body and hormone levels. Bio-identical hormones have the exact chemical structure as the hormones in the human body. The body recognizes them and allows them to mimic the function of the hormones the body produces on its own.

Gardens Pharmacy pharmacist can provide a hormone evaluation for the patient to fill out. A pharmacist experienced in BHRT may assist the healthcare provider in helping interpret the results of serum or saliva tests which measure a patient’s hormone levels. The healthcare provider, compounding pharmacist, and the patient can use the results of these diagnostic tools to help determine a course of treatment which will give the patient the exact amount of hormones her body needs.

Working closely with a woman and her healthcare provider, Gardens Pharmacy pharmacist can help a woman start and maintain a bio-identical hormone replacement regimen that brings her hormones back into balance and closely mimics what her body has been doing naturally for years. With a healthcare provider’s prescription, the pharmacist can prepare hormones in a variety of strengths and dosage forms, including:
  • Capsules
  • Topical or vaginal creams, gels, and foams
  • Suppositories
  • Sublingual drops or troches
Once the therapy is begun, the pharmacist will continue to work with the woman and her prescriber to make sure the BHRT is working correctly, adjusting the dosage if necessary, ensuring that the medication is just right for her body.

It’s your body…why not give yourself the option of a customized, bio-identical hormone therapy?
Ask your healthcare provider or Gardens Pharmacy pharmacist about bio-identical hormone replacement therapy.
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Compounding
Q & A:

What is compounding?

Pharmacy compounding is the art and science of preparing customized medications for patients. Its practice dates back to the origins of pharmacy, although compounding’s presence in the pharmacy profession has changed over the years.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the majority of prescriptions were compounded. With the advent of mass drug manufacturing in the 1950s and ’60s, compounding declined as the pharmacist’s role as a preparer of medications quickly changed to that of a dispenser of manufactured dosage forms. However, this “one-size–fits–all” approach to medication meant that some patients’ needs were not being met.

Within the las few decades, however, compounding has experienced a renaissance as modern technology and innovative techniques and research have allowed more pharmacists to customize medications to meet a patient’s unique needs.

Can my child or my elderly parent take compounded medicine?

Yes! Children and the elderly are often the types of patients who benefit most from compounding.

It is common for parents to have a tough time getting their children to take medicine because of the taste. A compounding pharmacist can work directly with the physician and the patient to select a flavoring agent, such as bubble gum, grape, tutti frutti, or vanilla butternut, which provides both an appropriate match for the medication’s properties and the patient’s taste preferences.

Just think – no more wasting medicine when a cranky patient spits it out!

Compounding pharmacists also can help patients who experience chronic pain. For example, some arthritic patients cannot take certain medications due to gastrointestinal side effects. Working with a physician’s prescription, a compounding pharmacist can provide these patients’ anti-inflammatory or pain-relieving medicationsas topical preparationsthat can be absorbed through the skin.

Compounded prescriptions frequently are used to ease pain, nausea, and other symptoms for hospice patients as well.

Is compounding legal? Is it safe?

Compounding has been part of healthcare since the origins of pharmacy, and is widely used today in all areas of the industry, from hospitals to nuclear medicine.

Over the last decade, compounding’s resurgence has largely benefited from advances in technology, quality control and research methodology.

The Food and Drug Administration has stated that compounded prescriptions are both ethical and legal as long as they are prescribed by a licensed practitioner for a specific patient and compounded by a licensed pharmacy.

In addition, compounding is regulated by state boards of pharmacy.

Will my insurance cover compounded medications?

Some insurance plans do cover compounding. At Palm Beach Gardens Pharmacy, we accept all major insurance companies.

Is compounding expensive?

Compounding may or may not cost more than conventional medication. Its cost depends on factors such as the type of ingredients and equipment required, plus the time the pharmacist spends researching and preparing the medication.

Fortunately, compounding pharmacists have access to pure-grade quality chemicals which dramatically lower overall costs and allow them to be very competitive with commercially manufactured products.

How does compounding benefit me?

There are several reasons why prescribers and pharmacists provide compounded medications for patients.

The primary reason is to avoid patient non-compliance, which means the patient is either unable or unwilling to use the medication as directed.

Many patients are allergic to preservatives or dyes, or require a dosage that is different from the standard drug strengths. With a practitioner’s consent, a compounding pharmacist can adjust the strength of a medication, add flavor to make it more palatable, or alter its form to make it easier for the patient to ingest.

Pharmacists also can prepare medications using unique delivery systems. For those patients who find it difficult to swallow a capsule, a compounding pharmacist can prepare the drug as a flavored liquid suspension instead. Other dosage forms include topical gels or creams that can be absorbed through the skin, suppositories, sublingual troches or lozenges, or even lollipops.

What kinds of prescriptions can be compounded?

Almost any kind! Compounded prescriptions are ideal for any patient requiring unique dosages and/or delivery devices.

Compounding applications can include: bio-identical hormone replacement therapy; hospice; pediatric; pain management;ophthalmic; dental; otic ( for the ear); dermatology; medication flavoring; neuropathy; veterinary; sports medicine; infertility; wound therapy; podiatry and gastroenterology.

Does my prescriber know about compounding?

Prescription compounding is a rapidly growing component of many practitioners’ practices, but some may not realize the extent of compounding’s resurgence in recent years due to today’s climate of aggressive marketing by drug manufacturers.

Ask your prescriber about compounding, or get in touch with a compounding pharmacy – one that is committed to providing high-quality compounded medications in the dosage form and strength prescribed by the practitioner. Through the triad relationship of patient, prescriber and pharmacist, all three can work together to solve unique medical problems.

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Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)

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Pain  Management

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