So my doctor runs a hormone panel on my middle aged, menopausal butt and finds out that I need a lot of estrogen and a little testosterone and no progesterone. She doesn’t want to give me the synthetic stuff because it’s linked to massive increases in cancer. There is no pill (or combination of pills) that will help me.
She writes me a prescription for a hormone balance that needs to be compounded because it doesn’t exist in Big Pharma.
Now I can’t have it.
My mother was on Armor Thyroid. She can’t take the Synthroid because she had a negative reaction. (She absolutely needs thyroid because hers was destroyed by radiation due to Grave’s disease)
Armor has production issues that takes YEARS to fix. There is no Armor thyroid available.
Her dr writes her a prescription for compounded thyroid to get her through.
Now she can’t have it.
The rise in compounding is a direct result of a need in an aging population. Restricting it is killing the one free market solution to a serious problem.
Conversely, a compound mixed for backaches, consisting of three or four combinations of the following: Baclofen, Cyclobenzaprine, Gabapentin, Ketamine, Lidocaine, Ketoprofen, Diclofenac, Capsaicin — can cost over $1,200 for a one month supply. In separate tubes of cream it would only cost about $80.00 so there is the RUB so to speak.
Yep... Big Pharmaceutical hates compounded drugs...there is a battle over them ...this sounds like another attack..I pay about $2800 year for compounded hormones insurance wont cover...it was that or pay $10,000 year for pharmaceutical drugs...course insurance would cover some of that..And the drugs I would need for the side effects too. And my life would be a living hell too