As a trusted compounding pharmacy in Ontario, Pharmore Compounding Pharmacy has one purpose: to provide personalized, effective solutions to your medication problems. Our ultimate goal is to provide our patients with high-quality, well-studied, and efficacious formulations aimed at improving overall health and quality of life.
What is compounding?
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. It declined in the 1950s and ‘60s as the pharmacist’s role quickly changed from a preparer of medications to a dispenser of mass-manufactured products. However, this “one-size-fits-all” approach to medication meant that some patients’ needs were unmet. Within the last few decades, compounding has experienced a renaissance, as modern technology, innovative techniques and new research have allowed more pharmacists to customize medications to meet a patient’s unique needs.
Compounding offers personalized pain relief.
The Compounding Solution:
Compounding is the preparation of customized medication. It provides valuable benefits to many patients, including those for whom dealing with chronic pain has become a way of life. Because it’s personalized to the specific patient, compounded medication can treat symptoms while avoiding certain side effects. By working with a compounding pharmacist, your physician can prescribe treatments tailored specifically for your pain management needs.
Alternative Dosage Forms:
Some have difficulty taking pain medications in their commercially available forms due to stomach irritation or other side effects. Compounding can provide alternative methods of delivery to make the process easier. Instead of a capsule or tablet, a topical gel, cream or spray can be compounded to be applied directly to the site of the pain and absorbed through the skin. Also, dosage forms like nasal sprays, custom-flavored troches that dissolve under the tongue or suppositories are alternative possibilities
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Pharmacy compounding may help improve a patient’s quality of life. These dosage forms bypass the gastrointestinal tract, helping patients with stomach irritation as well as those who have difficulty swallowing pills. In some cases, these delivery methods may allow for a smaller dose of the drug to be taken, which can reduce side effects like dizziness and drowsiness.
Combination Therapy
Some chronic pain sufferers, such as patients with fibromyalgia, are placed on a variety of medications – which means taking multiple drugs. Compounding can make it possible for these patients to get all their medications in a single preparation, which is much more convenient.
Strength Variations
Because patients vary in size, symptoms and pain
tolerance, commercially available medications
sometimes may not provide the appropriate
dosage strength for an individual patient. Through
compounding, a physician and pharmacist can
customize the dosage to the exact amount the
patient requires, and find a dosage form that best
suits the patient’s needs.
Pain can be debilitating, whether it’s acute
muscle or nerve pain resulting from an accident,
or a chronic condition such as arthritis or
fibromyalgia. Pharmacy compounding may help
improve a patient’s quality of life by providing
relief with potentially fewer side effects and less
overall medication.
Dermatology Compounding
It can be challenging to find the right solution for skin concerns. Many skin care products can leave undesirable side effects such as drying, thinning, redness, peeling and irritated skin. Compounding enables personalized medications to be customized to the patient’s needs by carefully selecting the right moisturizing agents, non-irritating bases and hypoallergenic products to treat your concerns based on your skin type. Compounding solutions for dermatological concerns come most often in the form of serums, creams, ointments, gels, sprays, foams and shampoos.
Hormone Imbalance
A hormonal imbalance can affect more than your mood – it can be responsible for a number of related health concerns, including:
