Hormones are one of the most individual areas of medicine. A dose that transforms one person’s life might not move the needle for someone else and that’s not a failure of treatment. That’s just how our individual biology works.
Yet for a long time, hormone therapy has been delivered in standardised commercial products, with limited flexibility around dose, form, or combination. For many patients, that’s worked well. But for others, it hasn’t come close.
At Buckley Street, we see this regularly. Women navigating menopause who need a specific oestrogen or progesterone strength that simply isn’t available off the shelf. Patients managing thyroid conditions who require a combination that no commercial product provides. Others who have been caught out by ongoing supply shortages with hormone patches, left without their usual treatment through no fault of their own.
Compounding allows us to step into that gap. Working directly from your doctor’s prescription, we prepare hormone therapy in the exact strength, combination, and form that has been prescribed for you. Whether that’s a cream, a capsule, or a troche, we prepare it to pharmaceutical standards, right here in our lab in Aberfeldie.
Our role isn’t to advise on whether hormone therapy is right for you, that conversation belongs with your GP or specialist. But when they prescribe something that the commercial market can’t provide, we can.
If you think compounded hormone therapy might be something worth exploring, start with your doctor. And if they refer you to us, we’ll take the time to get it right.
