Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) can help bring a woman’s life back into balance when the symptoms of menopause sneak up. JJ’s Prescription Specialties offers compounded BHRT that can be customized to each individual’s body and hormone level.

Hormone imbalance can throw other areas out of balance, such as mood, metabolism, and sexual and reproductive functions. BHRT has the exact chemical structure of the hormones in the body and beyond menopause, BHRT can be used to treat conditions such as pre-menstrual syndrome, postpartum depression, endometriosis and fibrocystic breasts.

The JJ’s team can work with your healthcare provider to develop the best course of treatment, help get you the exact hormones your body needs and get you back on your feet.

To download a consultation form, click here or call JJ’s at 337-562-7979 for more information.

You can fill your prescription anywhere, but at JJ’s, our pharmacists put us at the top for service and patient satisfaction. J. Carlos Dubus brings 51 years of pharmaceutical experience to JJ’s, and he is a certified consultant pharmacist as well as a compounding and wound care pharmacist. Carlos is dedicated to serving his patients with care and professionalism, making their health and safety paramount.

If you’re like any typical parent, you probably have a hard time getting your kids their full servings of fruit and vegetables. JJ’s Online Store offers Dynamic Kids Drink—an easy-to-mix, great tasting, nutrient-rich superfood formula that your kids will love! Dynamic Kids Drink provides a 100% blend of natural fruit and vegetables as well as vitamins, enzymes and symbiotic intestinal flora. Buy yours now by clicking here.

Crohn’s Disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, affecting as many as 700,000 Americans. It strikes about the same number of men as women, and while it can occur at any age, the incidence peaks among adolescents and young adults between the ages of 15 and 35. It also tends to run in families.

With the autoimmune condition, the body’s immune system reacts abnormally to food and bacteria, therefore causing white blood cells to accumulate in the lining of the intestines causing inflammation, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Crohn’s can be a very difficult disease to treat. There are several types of therapies used, including surgery, nutritional supplements, oral medications and biologics. At JJ’s Prescription Specialties, our team works with healthcare providers to help patients manage their disease and live active, fulfilling and productive lives. We offer a full line of Crohn’s biologic medications including Cimzia and Humira.

Want to know more? Click here to schedule a consultation with our staff or call us at 562-7979.

It’s no surprise to any parent that kids usually have an aversion to taking their medicine. Instead of struggling to convince your kid to take their medicine, try compounding their prescription instead. The JJ’s team can make medicine easier to take by altering dosage methods and flavors.

Compounding allows JJ’s Prescription Specialties to turn capsules or tablets into tasty treats—like lollipops, gummy treats or effervescent drinks—that still provide the right dosage and strength for the child. This also helps children who have a difficulty swallowing pills or require allergen-free dosages.

Learn more by clicking here or calling JJ’s at 337-562-7979.

There’s a reason why people say it’s “a hard pill to swallow.” Many medications are commonly available as capsules or tablets, and we never look forward to taking our medicine. Oral medication can be hard to swallow, taste bad or cause unwanted side effects. Additionally, medicines taken by mouth must pass through a patient’s digestive tract, which may delay or reduce the medication’s effects.

But there’s a better way to take your meds. Our team at JJ’s can prepare many medications as topical treatments—creams, lotions, solutions or gels—that are applied directly to the skin.

Topical medications are easier to administer and allow the drug to enter the bloodstream through the skin, which may reduce or eliminate related side effects or discomfort.

Learn more by clicking here or calling JJ’s at 337-562-7979.

Having a hard time relaxing in bed? Or does restless leg syndrome keep you up? MyoCalm P.M. is a nighttime muscle relaxation formula that combines natural ingredients like passionflower and lemon balm to promote a feeling of calm and relaxation as well as a restful sleep.

MyoCalm P.M. may also help relieve minor pain associated with muscle tension, which can be caused by stress or physical overexertion. Get yours now by clicking here.

Drive-thru pharmacies aren’t for everyone. JJ’s Prescription Specialties provides a more personal touch by offering one-on-one consultations. Our team will work directly with your physician and healthcare providers to provide a total-care service that you just don’t find at big box pharmacies.

The JJ’s team is here to provide personalized and thoughtful solutions for all of your healthcare needs, from compound and specialty treatment options to information and advice about supplements and over-the-counter products.

Our consultations are always free, and you can fill out a consultation form online by clicking here.

Welcome to the future, Southwest Louisiana. Now, monitoring your health or the health of a loved one is at your fingertips—or, more accurately—on your wrist.

The HELO smart wristband—now available at JJ’s Prescription Specialties—is a sleek, revolutionary health-monitoring bracelet that monitors the wearer’s real-time vital signs, such as blood pressure, breathing rate and heart rate.

Through Bluetooth technology, HELO connects to the HELO smartphone app, which records vital signs and gives the wearer the option to store the results in a history log, allowing the wearer to track health patterns and trends.

HELO can also monitor a loved one’s vital signs and send a signal to a family member if the wearer’s vital signs are outside of a predetermined parameter. Similarly, the HELO’s S.O.S. function sends the wearer’s GPS location to a predetermined list of contacts if the wearer is in need to aid.

HELO is now available to purchase at JJ’s Prescription Specialties—the only licensed HELO vendor in Louisiana. Pricing for the HELO device begins at $349 with discounts for a family pack. Click here to buy yours!

Not all prescriptions are created equal. That’s where compounding comes in. Our team at JJ’s Prescription Specialties can customize medication to meet nearly any need a patient has.

Compounding is the art of preparing medication to fit your personal needs. While commercially available drugs may be difficult to take or contain allergens, compounded medicines are created with you in mind and give your physician an additional resource in effectively treating you.

But many patients who need compounded medicines look to out-of-state pharmacies and providers to meet their needs. These patients may pay upwards of $40 for shipping and handling costs for quality compounding services that can be performed here locally. JJ’s Prescription Specialties can meet the needs of our patients while saving them money and energy.

Your priority should be you and your family’s health, not worrying about the costs of medications. Give our team a call at 337-562-7979 to find out how we can help.

-JJ Gibson, Owner of JJ’s Prescription Specialties

Feeling off balance these days? Are hot flashes or fatigue throwing you out of rhythm? If menopause symptoms are disrupting your days and nights, relief may be close by.

Ultra Menoease is a daily supplement that is specially formulated with pure genistein, microencapsulated BioResponse DIM®, botanicals and nutrients to relieve menopausal symptoms and support healthy estrogen levels in women.

This supplement is sold in a one-month supply at JJ’s Prescription Specialties, or you can click here to buy now.

September is National Self-Care Awareness Month, and it’s time to treat yourself. It seems like we’re always on the go trying to corral our families and have a rewarding career that we often forget about ourselves. Just taking a few minutes each day can keep us happier and healthier, and supplements can go that extra step to support our immune systems while promoting healthy habits.

JJ’s Prescription Specialties only offers the highest-quality supplements. Each patient’s needs are different, and our team will use an individualized approach to find what best suits you.

Whether you want to boost healthy skin, hair and nails, alleviate joint pain, support a healthy GI tract or even get a good night’s sleep, our supplements are here for you.

Click here to schedule a consultation, or call us at 337-562-7979 to find out more.

We welcome your questions. Neuropathic pain is a common condition. Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to peripheral nerves from traumatic injuries, infections, metabolic problems, inherited causes or exposure to toxins. One of the most common causes is diabetes mellitus. It often causes weakness, numbness and pain, usually in the hands and feet but it can also affect other areas of your body. People with peripheral neuropathy generally describe the pain as stabbing, burning or tingling.

Another problem that can progress to chronic neuropathic pain is postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), a complication of shingles. Shingles (medically known as herpes zoster) result from the reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus that is most commonly contracted during childhood in the form of chickenpox. Virus that had remained dormant for decades can re-manifest as a painful, blistering, and vesicular rash. While the characteristic rash of herpes zoster usually clears within 2 to 4 weeks, 20% of people may experience pain in the form of PHN that persists after the rash has healed. The pain is a consequence of peripheral nerve damage caused by the herpes zoster attack, and can persist for years. Risk factors for PHN include advanced age, female gender, chronic disease, immunocompromised condition, and a greater severity of outbreak and pain during the acute phase.

The management of chronic neuropathic pain is challenging and as many as half of patients fail to respond to any conventional (commercially available) treatment. Other patients may experience limited benefits even when taking multiple medications. Health care providers have increasing interest in the optimization and personalization of therapy based upon the underlying cause of neuropathic pain and the patient’s symptoms.

Treatment options to date have mainly been centered on oral therapies, including tricyclic antidepressants, opioid analgesics, and corticosteroids. Therapeutic doses of these oral medications often carry a high risk of side effects and even opioid addiction.

Oral gabapentin is a common treatment for neuropathic pain, although doses that are adequate to provide pain relief usually produce intolerable drowsiness or dizziness. Small studies and case reports have found that topical application of compounded gabapentin gel relieved neuropathic pain without unwanted systemic side effects.

Some people with peripheral neuropathy have benefitted from these complementary therapies:

• Alpha-lipoic acid – be cautious and talk to your doctor because alpha-lipoic acid can affect blood sugar levels (and diabetes is often the cause of peripheral neuropathy).
• Herbs such as evening primrose oil might help reduce neuropathy pain in people with diabetes. Some herbs interact with medications, so don’t start herbal therapies before discussing with our pharmacist and your doctor.
• Amino acids such as acetyl-L-carnitine might benefit people who have diabetes or who have neuropathic pain following chemotherapy.

Our pharmacist can recommend the product and dose that will be best for you.

Ask our pharmacist how compounded medications and professional quality supplements might help neuropathic pain.

Vaginal atrophy is thinning, drying and inflammation of the vaginal walls due to declining estrogen levels. This occurs most often after menopause and can lead to irritation, itching, burning, distressing urinary symptoms, painful intercourse, and loss of libido.

Administration of intravaginal estrogen is the conventional therapy for vaginal atrophy. The body naturally makes three types of estrogen, each with different actions and potential benefits. Our pharmacist will talk to your doctor about which type of estrogen might be best to treat your specific problem. A compounded preparation containing hyaluronic acid in combination with vitamins A and E in an intravaginal cream may provide an alternative for patients who cannot use hormones.

Our compounding pharmacist will work together with each woman and her physician to customize a prescription medication that is most appropriate to treat her specific problems. We can prepare vaginal creams, suppositories, and even a small vaginal insert with no residual discharge.

We welcome your questions. Call JJ’s Prescription Specialties at 562-7979 for more information.

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Hormone Replacement Consultations

If you would like a personal consultation about Hormone replacement with Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy, please click on the link below and fill out the HORMONE REPLACEMENT FORM and bring a copy in to our pharmacy.

JJ’s Prescription Specialties
4070 Nelson Road
Lake Charles, LA 70605

Female Hormone Evaluation Form

Compounding is the art and science of preparing customized medications in the best strength and dosage form for each individual. Compounded medications can solve problems that don’t respond to commercially available drugs.

Due to stability concerns and the cost of stocking and distributing numerous formulations of each drug, medications are manufactured in a limited number of strengths and dosage forms that will satisfy the needs of most patients. Using pharmaceutical grade chemicals and specialized equipment not found in most pharmacies, we can compound medications in doses and dosage forms that are not commercially available.

We can compound medications into cosmetically appealing topical or transdermal creams and gels, sprays, and powders. Chemicals from FDA-inspected facilities can be utilized to enhance the absorption of topically applied medications.

Oral dosage forms such as lozenges, lollipops and suspensions can be flavored for each individual. Compatible drugs can be combined into a single dosage form to simplify a medication administration schedule and improve compliance and outcomes. We commonly prepare unique formulations that physicians request to meet specific needs of their patients, or “tried and true” formulas acquired during medical training. Our goal is to optimize the care of every patient. Bring us your medication problems!

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There are a number of advantages of using topical pain creams/gels instead of oral pain relievers in tablet, capsule or liquid form:

• Can be applied locally only on the area where pain relief is needed.
• Fast onset of action.
• Higher concentration of the analgesic in the pain area.
• Low or no systemic drug levels means fewer or no side effects.
• Absence of drug-drug interactions.
• Ease of combining multiple medications into one formulation for synergistic benefits.
• Improvement of compliance.
• No risk of dependency or abuse.
• Combinations of compatible drugs improve the chances of achieving a good therapeutic response. Optimization of a customized formulation by using the proper base/vehicle for topical or transdermal delivery is essential to achieve the best therapeutic response.

If you or a family member or friend are suffering from chronic pain, talk to our compounding pharmacist. We will work together with patient and physician to customize therapies to meet the specific needs of each individual.

Reference: J Pain Res. 2017 Mar 20; 10:635-641.

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