Pharmacy claiming to have no problem getting Pergolide?

Posted to EC List 4/30.2007 Msg # 90916

Re: Urgent! Pharmacy claiming to have no problem getting Pergolide!!!

> She refered to the withdrawn Pergolide as the "human" version, and
> compounded pergolide as the "animal version". She said that they
> get pergolide in a raw state from a chemical company, not a
> manufacturer. This company they get it from is in the US.
>
> They then compound it and are selling it to vets. She said the
> company they are getting it from is having no problem w/ obtaining
> it and therefore neither are they because it is the "animal" version.

She's wrong.

These little companies haven't tried to reorder any yet.

Facts:

- Unless they have some really shady black market source (not good),
the pharmacies order "raw" (bulk) from drug wholesalers. Drug
wholesalers order from foreign chemical manufacturers (there actually
are some in the US too - for $2 to $3 PER MG - so you know it's not
coming from there!).
- THERE IS NO DRUG AVAILABLE FROM THE LEGITIMATE WHOLESALERS. NADA, NONE, ZILCH - IT'S GONE.
- There is no such thing as the "animal version" of a bulk drug. Both
the compounded versions and the human pills were being made from the
same "raw"/bulk drug.

Even the big compounders that were initially saying they had large
supplies and didn't expect any problems with getting the bulk drug
are panicing now.

For your own (or rather, your horse's) safety, if you run into a
pharmacy that says "no problem", ask them who their supplier is. If
they won't tell you, run.

Eleanor