Guest guest Posted July 9, 2000 Report Share Posted July 9, 2000 Lorilyn, > are you saying that the slow release DMSA/LA that you > are getting from Dr. Amy is different from the slow > release DMSA/LA that you might get from any > compounding pharmacy? From what I understand, there > are only a couple of things that affect the time > release action of a compound, and this is what is used > by any compounding pharmacy. However, from your post > on the autism treatment site, it sounds as though Dr. > Amy had her pharmacy take some extra measures or > create a special formula that is different from what > is available at other pharmacies - is this true? I assume that the formula is the same, it is just that Dr. Holmes knows the PCCA pharmacist who gets the credit for developing the formula. Amy said that a PCCA pharmacist near her in Louisianna developed a time-release formula that can be shared within the PCCA network only. I found such a pharmacy here in CA, they called PCCA headquarters, the recipe was immediately faxed to my pharmacist. When my son's doctor prescribed it, the pharmacist knew what how to compound it. By the way, we won't have alpha lipoic in it at first, that comes later. As an aside, the pharmacist says a 30 day supply of the compounded DMSA is about 75% of the cost of the same amount of prescription Chemet! I had no idea it was a little cheaper to compound it, I assumed the opposite. Lorilyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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