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Premarin for older women

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@donna393

Hi, thanks for your response. My doctor's form letter that we received, listed 5 doctors that we could contact. That gives me about 12 months to find someone who will give a 74 year old woman an estrogen prescription. I believe that is going to be a needle in a haystack but have started looking around. For me personally, my excellent long term health depends on getting a prescription but I find it funny that most doctors who would be likely to give me a prescription, are around my age and they all are retiring. Further, I think my medical situation is something that younger doctors are not familiar with and I don't think they want to jeopardize their medical license prescribing estrogen to a 74 year old women. I don't think the medical community is fully aware of how many senior citizen women are taking estrogen. However, given this enormous task, I am ready for the challenge.

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I'm currently waiting for my delivery of Premarin from my Canadian pharmacy, and meanwhile have had to pay another $202. for a month's supply of Premarin which my doctor prescribes, but is not covered by Express Scripts. My question today is what is the difference between Premarin and Estradiol? Premarin does not have a generic substitute so if I just switched to Estradiol, as Espress Scripts suggested, wouldn't I be taking a different formulation? To switch from Premarin to Estradiol could cause problems which I currently don't have. Express Scripts is asking me to fill out forms saying that I have tried Estradiol and had a bad reaction, before they will consider covering it If I do have a bad reaction, isn't the bad reaction caused by having to switch medications unnecessarily? At my age, 81, should I risk it?