Pain Management Compounding

Keystone Pharmacy Custom Compounding Offers Personalized Pain Relief

As a trusted compounding pharmacy, Keystone Pharmacy of Grand Rapids, Michigan, understands that everyone deals with some form of pain from time to time. In fact, pain is the most common symptom people report when seeking medical attention.

Often, pain is acute and short-lived, such as a headache caused by stress, or muscle strain caused by a work or sports injury. Simple remedies like aspirin or other analgesic or a heating pad may suffice. Other times, acute pain devolves into chronic pain-the type of pain that returns when the treatment wears off. Many people live with debilitating, continually painful conditions like migraines, arthritis or fibromyalgia.

Mass-Produced Pain Medications: Relief...and Side Effects

There are many mass-produced pain relievers on the market. However, due to their dosage strength, dosage format or other factors, they can lead to unwanted side effects like drowsiness, dizziness or stomach irritation. Additionally, many people have difficulty swallowing pills or tablets, presenting further obstacles to pain treatment.

Keystone Pharmacy Offers a Pain Management Alternative

Why should you accept these limitations as part of your daily struggle with chronic pain? With custom pharmacy compounding from Keystone Pharmacy, you may not have to! Keystone Compounding Pharmacy offers customized options for your pain medication.

Keystone Pharmacy Offers Alternate Dosage Forms

With a healthcare provider's prescription, Keystone Pharmacy compounding pharmacy may be able to provide alternate ways to deliver your pain medication, including:

• Topical gels, creams, foams, or sprays which may be applied to the site of the pain
• Custom-flavored lozenges that dissolve in your mouth
• Nasal sprays
• Suppositories

Keystone Pharmacy Offers Combined Formulations

You may be taking a variety of medications to address your pain issues. Often, we can compound your various medications into a single capsule or topical preparation for your convenience.

Keystone Pharmacy Offers Strength Variations

Makers of mass-produced pain relievers often formulate their products based on an "average patient": average body weight, average pain tolerances, etc. Keystone Pharmacy sees you as an individual, and is equipped to take your individual needs into consideration when formulating your medication. We use your symptoms, your body weight, and your pain tolerance, to formulate specific compounds to meet your specific requirements.

Personalized Care, Improved Quality of Life!

Keystone Pharmacy custom compounding of your pain medication offers you convenience, targeted relief, precise dosages and potentially fewer side effects. This truly is good news if you live with chronic pain problems. Contact Keystone Pharmacy today to learn how you can begin improving your quality of life with custom compounded pain relief.

Arthritis & Back Pain Management Medications

Optimal treatment may involve the use of medications that possess pain-relieving properties, including some antidepressants, anticonvulsants, antiarrhythmics, anesthetics, antiviral agents, and NMDA antagonists. By combining various agents which utilize different mechanisms to alter the sensation of pain, practitioners have had great success in treating chronic pain.

Transdermal creams and gels can be formulated to provide high local concentrations at the site of application (e.g., NSAIDs for joint pain), for trigger point application (e.g., combinations of medications for neuropathic pain), or in a base that will allow systemic absorption. Studies suggest that there are no great restrictions on the type of drug that can be incorporated into a properly compounded transdermal gel. When medications are administered transdermally, they are not absorbed through the gastrointestinal system and do not undergo first-pass hepatic metabolism; therefore, side effects associated with oral administration can often be avoided.

The following is a list of some of the pain conditions for which we commonly compound medications:

• Arthritis
• Ankle Pain
• Back Pain
• Burning Foot Syndrome
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• CRPS (Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome)
• Diabetic Neuropathy
• Fibromyalgia
• Foot Pain
• Gout
• Head, Neck, and Facial Pain
• Knee Pain
• Migraines
• Muscle Spasms
• Neuropathic Pain
• Post Herpetic Neuralgia
• Shingles
• Shoulder Pain
• Tennis Elbow
• TMJ/TMD (Temporomandibular Disorders)

We work together with prescriber and patient to solve problems by customizing medications that meet the specific needs of each individual. Please contact Keystone Pharmacy to discuss the dosage form, strength, and medication or combination that is most appropriate for the patient.

Please download the Physician Referral List for Grand Rapids Area Pain Management Prescribers.