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[Keepgoing]

I go to a little independent chemist as the big ones only deal with their main suppliers. The one I go to deals with loads so they always get what your asking for. Xx

[Annie0710]

Thing is my scripts are done electronically but I can add a message 'please brand name oestrogel only' but it's sent to the pharmacy linked to the surgery so I'll try that way and hope they do it x

[Katia]

Annie, I got to the bottom of this before I gave up.on gel. The oestrogel is the old British stock. If you ask the pharmacy to order British stock you will get that one. The oestrodose is the new European stock. The British stock probably won't be available for long. I'm couldn't tell if there was a difference as neither of them worked well for me.

[Annie0710]

Oh what ?! So oestrogel is being discontinued?

[Keepgoing]

No way I can't use the other one...I'm going to pop in my chemist tomorrow and ask...I hope it's not!!

[Annie0710]

Let us know Keepgoing please! X

[pamb]

Hi

I could be wrong but could it be that your local Trust won't prescribe it because it's too expensive.  My GP said if I was considering oestrogel and utrogestan then I had to be referred to a menopause specialist.  It's all about cost these days.

Pamb x

[Keepgoing]

Well I went round and asked my chemist if this was true about the oestrogel uk stock being discontinued and she says she hasn't heard a thing about it and if it was she would have known by now xx

[Annie0710]

Phew !
Thanks for asking and letting us know xx

[Kkay]

Hello,

I'm a bit confused about this as well. I don't live in the UK, but I used to get Estrogel (which came in a tube) and everything was fine. I was just told in France that Estrogel is no longer available and its all Oestrodose.

The container says the ingredients are the same but it feels different to me.....

Any advice as to where one can find Estrogel and what is going on ?

[Katia]

I'm not sure.  My pharmacy refer to it as the old UK stock.  They had to ring around to get it.

[Annie0710]

Ok ladies I went to pick up my vagifem this morning and asked the pharmacist about oestrogel.  They can still get it and as I've noticed I'm not as good on oestrodose she said make it noted when I request it that it must be oestrogel

Good news x

[Keepgoing]

Yay...good for you Annie xx

[Kkay]

Thank you ladies ...I will try to find Estrogel somehow. I don't live in the UK so Annie's pharmacy won't work.

But its good to know at least that the Oestrodose/Estrogel difference isn't my imagination.

[Maryjane]

Went to my gynae yesterday and she did many of her ladies do not get on with the oestrodse brand , and there is a difference.

I took a picture of the one I wanted and the pharmacist ordered it.