A new awareness is coming to light with more and more research in the treatment of chronic pain. Unrelieved chronic pain can interfere with all aspects of a person's life from affecting the ability to concentrate at work to disrupting interpersonal relationships. When chronic pain affects you, it is often difficult to think about anything else and plans are made around the pain, not around life.

Our team of compounding pharmacists work closely with physicians and pain management specialists to create personally tailored medications. Knowing that a properly compounded narcotic capsule or topical pain relieving gel has little, if any, street value may further convince your physician that this may be a solution that would work for you. "First, do no harm" is the unspoken motto of most healthcare practitioners. With specially compounded topical medications, you get the medicine in higher concentrations where it is needed and very little of the drug actually reaches the rest of the body. It is possible to greatly reduce or eliminate the typical side effects of medications taken orally.

Since this type of prescription is custom-made in a pharmacy laboratory for a specific patient, there is a great deal of flexibility of the types and amounts of medicine that go into the cream or gel. Successful pain management requires a team approach between the patient, their healthcare provider and an expert compounding pharmacist with experience in pain management. Because no treatment works for everyone, with this approach, we are able to customize the cream or gel to one that works best for the patient.

Compounding has many new options for patients and physicians. If you have questions about what our compounding pharmacy can do for you, please contact us.