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What is a Compounding Pharmacy?

BuzzRx

If your doctor’s office has given you a prescription with instructions to fill it at a compounding pharmacy, you might be wondering what exactly this means. There are 56,000 community pharmacies in the US. Only around 7,500 are compounding pharmacies, of which only 3,000 perform sterile compounding.

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Blood Sugar, Hashimoto’s, Ozempic, Metformin and Berberine

The Thyroid Pharmacist

I also prefer semaglutide drugs over other weight loss drugs out there (for example, phentermine, a controlled substance that can be habit forming, or orlistat, a drug that results in fat malabsorption and “disaster pants”). 2012 Mar;166(3):477-85. 2012 Mar-Apr;18(2):179-84. Eur J Endocrinol. doi: 10.1530/EJE-11-0917.