Yes. Many patients require customized medications to meet unique medical needs. Chain pharmacies do not have the equipment necessary to provide these services.

Because many patients are allergic to dyes and/or preservatives, or are sensitive to standard drug therapies, they are unable to be treated with mass manufactured drugs. In these instances, physicians prescribe compounded medications to change the strength, alter the delivery form to make it easier for the patient to ingest, or change the flavor to make it more pleasant.

At Wellness Pharmacy compounded prescriptions are prepared by certified compounding pharmacists as well as certified pharmacy technicians, using formulas provided by the Professional Compounding Centers of America. Once a medication is compounded, the order goes through a series of checkpoints before it reaches our shipping department. These measures are taken to ensure accuracy.

Any licensed Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) can prescribe compounded medications.

The FDA does not have an approval process for compounded drugs. In recent years most state boards have developed a section of their rules and laws to deal specifically with compounding pharmacies. Each state’s board of pharmacy oversees adherence to, and enforcement of, these rules and laws.

A compounding pharmacy is not a pharmaceutical company. A pharmaceutical company is a drug manufacturer, and falls under the regulation of the FDA. By definition, drug manufacturing is the production, marketing and sale of a product to an entity other than the patient.

When a doctor prescribes a compounded medication, the compounding pharmacy customizes the preparation of the pharmaceutical solutions for that patient. Physicians rely on compounders for pharmaceutical solutions when “patent” prescription medications inadequately address their patients’ needs.