Hello everyone.
Recently contact a compounding pharmacy to enquire about the cost of Vaginal Valium, 2% Amitriptyline and 2% Baclofen cream and or estrogen and testosterone compound cream.
Could I make a general enquiry to everyone here about what compound they are using, what percentage and what bases are being used. Also the cost!
Below is the email I got from the pharmacy and to me it seems very expensive. Just wondering what others are paying after co pay and all that. Just to buy the creams/ suppositories outright what is it costing?
"Hi Claire,
Thanks for your enquiry.
We can compound the diazepam suppository. While we could make the suppository from the tablets, I would rather use the pure diazepam powder for you to reduce any extra ingredients in the product. We would need to order the powder in for you, which should only take a few days providing there is stock in Australia. To give you an idea of price, $30 supps would be approx. $89.
There has been some good results with amitriptyline (the drug in ENDEP), baclofen and gabapentin in a transdermal cream. Feedback from other pharmacists overseas is that these drugs should definitely be in a penetrating cream base and that the best tolerated seems to be lipoderm. My estimate to compound a cream like this would be approx. $185 for 100g or $132 for 50g.
The estradiol 0.03% and Testosterone0.1% cream is usually $75. This cost may vary if we decide to make a cream base from scratch so that it contains no preservatives etc. We would need to talk more about cream bases that you can/can’t tolerate."
We need to get this stuff more readily available in Aus!
Thanks everyone!
Claire
Recently contact a compounding pharmacy to enquire about the cost of Vaginal Valium, 2% Amitriptyline and 2% Baclofen cream and or estrogen and testosterone compound cream.
Could I make a general enquiry to everyone here about what compound they are using, what percentage and what bases are being used. Also the cost!
Below is the email I got from the pharmacy and to me it seems very expensive. Just wondering what others are paying after co pay and all that. Just to buy the creams/ suppositories outright what is it costing?
"Hi Claire,
Thanks for your enquiry.
We can compound the diazepam suppository. While we could make the suppository from the tablets, I would rather use the pure diazepam powder for you to reduce any extra ingredients in the product. We would need to order the powder in for you, which should only take a few days providing there is stock in Australia. To give you an idea of price, $30 supps would be approx. $89.
There has been some good results with amitriptyline (the drug in ENDEP), baclofen and gabapentin in a transdermal cream. Feedback from other pharmacists overseas is that these drugs should definitely be in a penetrating cream base and that the best tolerated seems to be lipoderm. My estimate to compound a cream like this would be approx. $185 for 100g or $132 for 50g.
The estradiol 0.03% and Testosterone0.1% cream is usually $75. This cost may vary if we decide to make a cream base from scratch so that it contains no preservatives etc. We would need to talk more about cream bases that you can/can’t tolerate."
We need to get this stuff more readily available in Aus!
Thanks everyone!
Claire

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