Estratest Generic On Indefinite Back Order! (Page 5)
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Could this mean it may no longer be produced? I had a complete hysterectomy in 2000 and nothing else has worked for me! HELP!

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Jon, I since shopped around and there are several privately owned drug stores who don't seem to have a problem getting estratest. I got mine filled at one of them last week. They said they had three different supplies making the SAME thing.. I'm assuming the big pharma's (like Walmart, etc)..are the ones having the problem. Mine is half strength and looks like the old Solvay type pill. The number on the pill is #1507. Good luck

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My wife had the same problem with getting her Rx refilled. The pharmacist told her the same thing as others have found out that it is "quarantined" and on back order. Her doctor also prescribed Covaryx HS for her. She's just started using it. Let's hope it works as well as Estrogenmtest Hstab did.

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Hi Sofi,
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists reports that there are a few other companies that make a medication with the same composition as Estratest.

Centrex makes Corvaryx in full and half strength.
Creekwood makes EEMT in full and half strength.
Amneal is also supposed to be the same composition.

Solvay was the original developer of Estratest, a trademarked medication. Other companies (Glenmark, Prasco, Breckenridge, Lannett) began producing a similar medication under diffferent names.
All of these companies have discontinued production.

It is my understanding, and I may be wrong, that the methyltestosterone is added to help prevent cramping. When my wife ran out of Estratest and was placed on Premarin, she began to have severe cramping and muscle spasms in her back. We visited our doctor and he gave her a shot of testosterone. Within 24 hours, the back spasms stopped and within three days, the muscle pain went away. So it appears that she will be on Premarin and monthly testosterone shots until the Estratest situation improves.

A weird sidenote. Methyltestosterone in Estratest is a Class III controlled substance, and is probably the reason for this situation, requires a special triple form prescription. Testosterone is not a classified controlled substance and only requires a simple prescription.

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Estratest used to be made by Solvay. The FDA discontinued it. You can get
It generic form now. CVS, Walgreens and Target uses a a pharmaceutical company called Amneal that produces estratest. It doesn't work for me. I've been taking Estratest since 1993 when it was made by Solvay. When they discontinued it Target used a pharmaceutical company Interpharm in 2010 and it worked great, then the changed to Amneal and it doesn't work. I asked Target for a printout of estratest that I received since 2009 and everything was printed out except the manufacture. The pharmacist had to write it in. When I looked at it, he had
Amneal for 3/2010 & I said Aneal did not fill this in 2010 and I showed him the bottle. Anneal is Target using now ,but not in 2010. I find very strange that Target does not
disclose the manufacture on their printout at the
time they fill out their prescription. I'm still researching
manufactures. I was thinking of calling the FDA and asking them who dispenses the generic form of estratest since they took it off the market

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Thank you, Mike. Good post. My friend's pharmacist substituted a drug called Covaryx. She hasn't tried it yet. I sure hope it's the same thing as estratest.

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Greetings,

Since my wife has been having the same problem obtaining Estratest in California, I decided to do a little research on the problem. Here is what I found:

Estratest is a combination of Esterified Estrogens and Methyltestosterone. Methyltestosterone is a Class III restricted drug on the Drug Enforcement Administrations controlled substance schedule. Methyltestosterone is an oral steroid with mild anabolic steroid effects. Estratest had been previously exempted from the Class III restricted drug schedule.

There was a change in the law or regulations on January 1st that eliminated this exemption. This means that the drug manufacturers, distribution centers and drug stores or doctors now have a completely new system for reporting the sale and transfer of Estratest. It also requires a new prescription form and can not be prescribed for more than a six month period on any one prescription.

When they said it was "quarantined", they probably meant it was not going to be distributed until the manufacturer/distributer could meet all of the new reporting requirements for distribution of a Class III controlled substance. There could also be a problem for the manufacturers in obtaining the Methyltestosterone for inclusion in the Estratest since it is a Class III controlled substance.

At one time there were eight pharmasutical firms manufacturing Estratest. There are now only three.
Hopefully, those three firms will still find it profitable to manufacture Estratest.

It appears that post-menapausal women are the victims of the unintended consequences of the governments zeal to restrict anabolic steroid abuse.

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I called a local WalGreens and they still had the pills. I had to "transfer" the script (which they did by phone). BUT WalGreens doesn't take TRICARE prescription payment, so I paid the $34 for the Estratest HS. (I didn't care how much it cost)..LOL... CALL around and see which pharmacist still has some.

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I have had the same problem with mine. I am in Tennessee and filled my script on the 13th of December and they could only give me 14 pills. I am now out and the pharmacist told me it is on indefinite back order???? Waiting for the doctor to change me to something else. The problem is I have tried four other replacement hormones since my hysterectomy in April and this is the one that works!!!

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Just today, my WalMart Pharmacist could only fill 7 pills. Then my PCP nurse called and told me the Estratest manufacturer had put the drug on "quarantine". We don't know what that means? Nurse suggested I try something else. There IS nothing else, is there? This is really happening here in Little Rock, Arkansas. What is going on????

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Hi Msgirl,

May I ask where you found information stating that Estratest Generic is on an indefinite backorder? I couldn't personally find any information claiming that it's no longer unavailable. However, I did find out that there was a shortage of Estratest's active ingredients: "Esterified Estrogens" and "Methyl testosterone" - but according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, that issue was resolved in 2011.

Source: ashp.org/DrugShortages/ResolvedShortages/Bulletin.aspx?id=552

Please let me know if you come across any more information. Thanks!

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