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[Minusminnie]

Maybe now the patent is going it is to get in first with calling it an Estriol 0.1% cream before other companies start making it.

[CLKD]

It's probably due to the patent running out.  Ask your Pharmacist?

[CLKD]

I collect my 2 packets of 'ovestin' yesterday.  Although the script said estriol 

Did U ask the pharmacist Minusminnie?  It mayB that areas are using up 'ovestin' B4 ordering estriol 

[Minusminnie]

I can’t do a repeat prescription until the end of the month.  Will see what I get given & quiz the pharmacist then. My script says estriol 0.1% too so at some point I guess will be open to be being given a generic…..deep joy!

[fiftyplus]

I collected 1 Ovestin on Friday - I still have the balance/remaining 1 from my prescription to collect today - thanks for reminding me x

[Hurdity]

If it is made by the same company with exactly the same concentration of estriol and the same ingredients, then it's the same product and shouldn't make any difference. Like I said the same thing happened with gynest cream/estriol 0.01 % - the actual tube was exactly the same too - just not called by the brand name any more.

I'm not au fait with how pharma works and I'm sure there will be something online - but I guess the company that first developes the product takes out a patent and after a certain number of years, the patent expires and then maybe other companies are allowed to produce it - but it seems weird that the same company just changes the name but produces the same product. I mean with Vagifem, it's still called Vagifem but the other company producing it called it Vagirux. Maybe the original company calls it by the generic name rather than a new brand name to ensure that's the one that will be used. What I'm confused about is that some generics are completely different from the original brand named one (because I think a generic just has to have the dose of the active ingredient the same - like with paracetamol etc), and some are exactly the same - like Vagirux and Vagifem (I think...). Probably something to do with monopolies??

Hurdity x

[Minusminnie]

Just done my repeat prescription which is now saying Estriol 1mg/g cream online.
My last print out enclosed in the bag with the last repeat said Estriol 0.1% cream.
Will see what i get given after Easter.

If other firms are allowed to call any generic produced Estriol 1mg/g my worry is that the pharmacist in the future is not going to want to get a product made by the original firm should you require it.

It won't be like asking for Vagifem specifically if you can't get on with a generic. Ovestin as such will not exist any more to ask for specifically.

[Minusminnie]

Picked up my prescription this morning and have been give Estriol 1mg/g made by Aspen same company as Ovestin but not labelled now as Ovestin. So that should be okay.

Will quibble another time if that changes.

[Dierdre]

I suppose we'll know it's the old Ovestin if it's made by Aspen. I'm still waiting a week later for my repeat as Boots as had to order it.

[CLKD]

Wonder why Boots had to order VA treatment  .  It's the same active ingredient 

[Dierdre]

Because they have none in stock, Ovestin or Estriol 1mg/g.

[Dierdre]

Rang Boots again today and still no stock of Ovestin or Estriol 1mg! Getting worried now,  luckily I've a tube in hand but they have no date when it will be in stock again. The pharmacist said she will keep reordering,  I had to explain about Ovestin being discontinued, she then checked and it had been taken off their list. I told her she needs to order Estriol 1mg, shouldn't they know these things.

[Ayesha]

Ovestin is still available to buy from most of the online pharmacies, perhaps they have plenty in stock until it runs out.

[Dierdre]

I've got another prescription from the doctor ready tomorrow to take around the other chemists to see if they have any left.

[Dierdre]

Finally after 5 chemists I got Estriol 1mg at ASDA pharmacy. Some of the chemists didn't know Ovestin had been changed to Estriol, they said no one had informed them.