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COMPOUNDING

CUSTOMIZED MEDICINE FOR YOU

Pitt Street Pharmacy is unlike most pharmacies in the United States. We are a compounding-only facility, which means we make practically every prescription item that we sell. Before the era of mass drug manufacturing, virtually all prescriptions were compounded, specifically for each patient. However, not all pre-manufactured dosages and forms are ideal as a solution. At Pitt Street Pharmacy, our pharmacists have always believed that compounded medications are best when meeting the specification needs of our customers.

Our goal at Pitt Street Pharmacy is to be your problem solving pharmacy. We are eager to serve your specialized needs.

Our pharmacists can personalize medicine for a number of important reasons, including:

• Dosage forms (Transdermal creams & gels, lozenges, oral suspensions & capsules)
• Strength of each dose
• Provide medications without gluten, lactose, dyes or other specific allergies & sensitivities
• Wide array of flavors to meet your likes.

Our goal at Pitt Street Pharmacy is to be your problem solving pharmacy. We are eager to serve your specialized needs.

Compounding for Dermatology

Whether your goal is to reduce acne, rejuvenate your skin, reduce appearance of aging (wrinkles, age spots) and scars or treat nail fungus, dandruff, skin conditions or pain, we can formulate a personalized solution for you!

Is your skin treatment too strong?
Do you have skin allergies?
Do you have a scar from an injury of surgery?
Keeping your toenails covered because of how they look?
Are age spots popping up on your skin?
Warts won’t go away?
There is a personalized solution for you!

Conditions & Compounded Formulas
• Acne-Erythromycin/Benzoyl Peroxide Carbomer Gel
• Aging/Bleaching Treatment-Tretinoin/Hydroquinone/Triamcinolone
• Dry Skin-Keri in Propylene Glycol Lotion
• Fungus on Soles of Feet-Terbinafine in Urea Lotion
• Hair Loss for Men & Women-Minoxidil/Finasteride
• Onchomycois & Fungal Infections-Terbinafine/Ibuprofen in DMSO
• Psoriasis-Psoriasis Ointment (Coal Tar/Sulfur/Salicylic Acid/Lidex)
• Psoriasis of Finger/Toe Nails-Ketoprofen/Cyclosporin/Clobetasol Gel
• Psoriasis of Scalp or Seborrheic Dermatitis-Salicylic Acid/Sulfur/Hydrocortisone topical solution
• Scar Reduction-Tamoxifen Citrate Cream
• Scar Treatement-Pracacil Plus
• Seborrhea-Coal Tar/Salicylic Acid Shampoo
• Shingle Pain-Shingle Gel (Ketoprofen/Cyclobenzaprine/Lidocaine)
• Warts-Salicylic Acid/Cimetidine/Deoxyd-glucose
• Wound Care/Decubitus Ulcers-Misoprostol/Metronidzole/Lidocaine
• Wound Healing-Nifedipine or Nitroglycerin topical ointment

Compounding for Pain Management

Pain is the most common symptom for which people seek medical help. It can be debilitating, whether it’s acute muscle or nerve pain from an injury; a chronic condition such as neuropathy, fibromyalgia or arthritis; or oral pain.

Compounding offers personalized pain relief, often in dosage forms that 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.

Conditions & Compounded Formulas
Do commercial pain medications irritate your stomach or cause other side effects?
Medication too Strong?
Can’t Swallow?
Compounding can provide strength variations based on individual size, symptoms and pain tolerance AND
Compounding can provide alternate methods of delivery.

Instead of a capsule or tablet, pain medications can be compounded in topical gel or cream that can be applied directly to the site of the pain and absorbed through the skin or administered with suppositories or lollipops.

For example:
If you have shoulder pain from playing sports or you have back pain you rub the cream where it hurts!

These dosage forms bypass the gastrointestinal tract, helping with stomach irritation or with 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.

Strength Variations: Because patients vary in size, symptoms and pain tolerance, commercially available medications sometimes my not provide the appropriate dosage strength for an individual patient.

Alternate Dosage Forms: Some have difficulty taking pain medications in their commercially available forms due to stomach irritation or other side effects.

Delivery Methods: Compounding can provide alternate methods of delivery. Instead of a capsule or tablet, pain medications can be compounded in topical gel or cream that can be applied directly to the site of the pain and absorbed through the skin, suppositories, or in the form of custom-flavored troches that dissolve under the tongue.

Commonly Requested Formulas
• Inflammation/Neuropathic Pain
• Ketoprofen 20%
• Ketoprofen 20%/Gabapentin 10%
• Amitripyline 2%/Ketoprofen 10%/Carbamazepine
• Decubitus Ulcers/Wound Care
• Misoprostol/Metronidazole/Lidocaine
• Diabetic Neuropathy
• Amitriptyline/Ketoprofen/Cyclobenzaprine
• Oral/Throat Pain
• Magic Mouthwash-Tetracycline/Hydrocortisone/Nystatin/Diphenhydramine
• Mouth Ulcers/Apthous Ulcers-Triamcinolone in Maalox
• Sore Throat Pain-Tetracaine Lollipop
• Personalized Compounding for Pain

Compounding for Weight Loss

Are you struggling to get those excess pounds off? We offer a fast and simple way to lose weight!

The Pitt Street Pharmacy Weight Loss Program
Our weight loss plan combines a low calorie diet with a high quality compounded hormone. These two factors work together to burn a significant quantity of fat in a short period of time without reducing your muscle mass.

The hormone does three important things:

1. Keeps you from feeling hungry
2. Tells your body to use the sub-cutaneous fat stores for energy
3. You lose fat, not muscle!

*The hormone requires a prescription from your doctor. It is available in a nasal spray or sublingual drops. There isn’t any packaged food or shakes to purchase. Real food. Real Simple.

Free Consultation
Stop in, or call us for your free consultation and Tracker Guide.

You can do it! We can help!

Roles of Compounding

Physicians may prescribe an individually compounded medication for a patient with a unique or unusual health need. This allows the physician to tailor a prescription to each individual. Compounding preparations are especially prevalent for patients requiring:

• limited dosage strengths, such as a very small dose for infants.
• a different formulation, such as turning a pill into a liquid or transdermal gel for people who can’t swallow pills due to disability
• an allergen-free medication, such as one without gluten or colored dyes.
• patients who absorb or excrete medications abnormally
• patients who need drugs that have been discontinued by pharmaceutical manufacturers because of low profitability
• patients facing a supply shortage of their normal drug.
• children who want flavored additives in liquid drugs, usually so that the medication tastes like candy or fruit
• veterinary medicine, for a change in dose, change to a more easily-administered form (such as from a pill to a liquid or transdermal gel), or to add a flavor more palatable to the animal. In the United States, compounded veterinary medicine must meet the standards set forth in the Animal Medical Drug Use Clarification Act (AMDUCA).
• many types of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy

In Research and Development

Pharmaceutical compounding is a branch of pharmacy that continues to play the crucial role of drug development. Compounding pharmacists and medicinal chemists develop and test pharmaceutical formulations for new drugs so that the active ingredients are effective, stable, easy to use, and acceptable to patients. However, for actual clinical trials, production of drug products is generally considered “manufacturing” because “compounding” is typically defined as being for a single individual patient only.

Safety and Regulation

Do Compounded Medications Require FDA Approval?
The FDA approval process is intended for mass-produced drugs made by manufacturers. Because compounded medications are personalized for individual patients, the federal government has approved the use of compounded medications for those individuals who have received a prescription for that specific compounded medication.

Is compounding legal? Is it safe?
Compounding has been part of healthcare since the origins of pharmacy, and is widely used today in all areas of the industry, from hospitals to nuclear medicine. Over the last few decades, compounding’s resurgence has benefited largely from advances in technology, quality control and research methodology. The Food and Drug Administration has stated that compounded prescriptions are both ethical and legal as long as they are prescribed by a licensed practitioner for a specific patient and compounded by a licensed pharmacy. In addition, compounding is regulated by state boards of pharmacy.

Pitt Street Pharmacy is a member of The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP). IACP is an international, non-profit association protecting and promoting the art and skill of pharmaceutical compounding.

Hormone Therapy

Hormone Therapy for Men and Women.
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We Listen. We Educate. We Give Hope.

Pets

Just like our human patients, our pets can benefit from compounded medications, too. We can make the Right medication in the Right dosage, Right flavor and Right way for your pet!

Supplements

Help restore your health and wellness with supplements recommended for your individual needs. We pride ourselves on setting the standard of having the highest quality, innovative, nutritional formulas, vitamins, minerals, and herbs in the professional marketplace.

Contact

Phone

843-884-4051

MONDAY - SATURDAY

9 AM - 6 PM

Address

111 Pitt Street, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464