Why Customize Medication      

Having the ability to customize medications to meet the unique needs of our patients and their doctors can provide innovative and insightful solutions to difficult problems. There are several reasons why pharmacists compound prescription medications; yet, the most important one is patient noncompliance. Many patients are allergic to preservatives or dyes, or are sensitive to standard drug strengths. With a physician's consent, our compounding pharmacist can change the strength of a medication, alter its form to make it easier for the patient to ingest, and/or add flavor to it to make it more palatable. Our pharmacist also can prepare the medication using several unique delivery systems, such as a sublingual troche or lozeng, a lollipop, or a transdermal gel. Or, for those patients who are having a difficult time swallowing a capsule, our compounding pharmacist can make a suspension instead.

We can provide medicines which are simply not available commercially. Sometimes a medicine cannot be patented by a pharmaceutical company, and therefore it is not to their economic advantage to produce the medicine. Another reason a medication many not be commercially available is that it may not be used widely enough to make commercial production practical. We make one special medicine for one special patient.

We can provide alternate dosage forms. Frequently medicines are only available in one form. This often presents a problem for patients who find that they are unable to swallow a large pill, don't like the taste of their medicine, or who simply don't wish to use a suppository. However, through compounding we can make a form of the medication that almost anyone can use:

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