Evorel75 patches are out of stock still where I am. I got the Pharmacy’s last box, last week. The Boots Prescription checker is sadly out of date as when it showed some chemists had it in stock, they didn’t. Each chemist said there were ‘manufacturing issues’
My pharmacist ( a man) smirked when I looked panic stricken. I don’t absorb Estradot very well and am wary of trying other patches, as they do vary, as we know. Though, from what I gather he didn’t have many others either. I asked when they’d next be in and he just shrugged. I asked when I should come back and check and he said ‘when you run out of patience or your supply, whatever comes first” and laughed. It’s not treated like a ‘proper’ medicine it seems.
This has to change. I saw the news and they said that patches were in ‘plentiful’ supply, they’re not. There is a list that pharmacists are using that the NHS has listed all the out of stock HRT items that pharmacists can ‘swap’ and there are no patches on there, so I do need to go back to my GP for an alternative prescription in the next couple of weeks if they don’t come into stock. It’s not good enough.
Teresa
