Gelatin caps and full service compounding pharmacies (and PS question for fellow geeks)

[Guest guest]

If you have a pharmacy nearby that compounds medicines, take them your

prescriptions which normally come in gelatin (boiled beef hide/bones/yuk)

capsules and ask if they can formulate it in a veg friendly capsule or even as a

suspension in a syrup. We've got several pharmacies here that will do it for

you. Most of the time there is no extra charge. A couple of the medicines I have

to take still come in their gelatin capsules because they are not in generic

form yet.

 

Hope this helps. I'm not really awake yet and have just spent several days

migrating 1 TB of data to new hard drives and all the fun and games which comes

with a dead drive in the rack. Not to mention the fun and games of trying to get

just a few minutes more work time out of a critically important drive with a

bearing failure.

 

Hugs, I'm off to make some hash browns with peppers and onions. Raining here so

most of my day is going to be snuggled up with the heating pad, cats and several

Charlotte MacLeod novels. (I adore her work.) Jeanne in GA

PS: Any geekish types have a review of the newer 1TB drives? I've got 6 drives

in my computer now and running 1 external and haven't enough room to backup my

OS. B4 I plunk down cash for a couple of the new big drives, it's a good idea to

find out if they're worth the money.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

That's very good to know. I assume this would have to be something bigger

than your normal Walmart or grocery store pharmacy. Do CVS/Walgreens do

that, I wonder?

 

(I once got a prescription pain reliever that was a tablet but contained

gelatin, which I didn't find out til I got it home. I took it anyway -- it

was for a urinary tract infection, so I was miserable enough I didn't care,

fortunately, I don't get those often!)

 

Audrey

 

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Jeanne B <treazured wrote:

 

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> If you have a pharmacy nearby that compounds medicines, take them your

> prescriptions which normally come in gelatin (boiled beef hide/bones/yuk)

> capsules and ask if they can formulate it in a veg friendly capsule or even

> as a suspension in a syrup. We've got several pharmacies here that will do

> it for you. Most of the time there is no extra charge. A couple of the

> medicines I have to take still come in their gelatin capsules because they

> are not in generic form yet.

>

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

~warm Audrey hugs~ Hate those infections, they HURT. Actually, the ones here who

do their own compounding are the small Mom and Pop sort of pharmacies. and one

near the hospitals. I'm not sure if the big chains will even do their own

compounding. I had to get my doctor to rewrite one of my prescriptions to the

liquid form to get the grocery store pharmacy to dispense in liquid form and of

course it ended up taking close to 2 days to get the doctor's office to call in

the liquid form and the pharmacist to order it, etc, and naturally it was for a

pain med sooooooo next time I needed special compounding, Carl went to one of

the Mom and Pop ones in town. They even deliver for free, which knocked my

booties off.

 

Ah for the good old days when if you brought in a prescription they gave you a

ticket for a Coca Cola at the lunch counter.

 

Jeanne in GA