Womens International and other mailorder pharmacies

[Guest guest]

For those of you who get your estrogen and other hormones from WIP and other mail pharmacies, I strongly recommend that you ask for overnight shipping in the summer.

I was getting symptoms (worse stress incontinence) that would suggest that my estrogen cream was subpotent. I called WIP and talked to a pharmacist who told me it could not be subpotent due to the heat, because it was stable up to a very high heat and that my body "must have changed." So I foolishly ordered another refill by standard shipping. Same problem.

Then I decided to pay the $19 for overnight shipping. In two days on the new hormones, the incontinence was largely relieved.

I need to call WIP again and relate my experience. I will also ask to what temperature those hormones are stable.

If it is 100 degrees in the shade, how hot can it get in a closed truck or shipping container left in the sun?