Granocyte

[Yellow83]

Hello everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone has had any luck sourcing Granocyte from a pharmacy in the UK?

Thank you loads 😊

xx

[DianeArnold Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

Hi Yellow. I would prefer if this was prescribed for you. My thoughts of course. Good luck. Diane

[Yellow83 in reply to DianeArnold]

Thanks a lot Diane, thankfully it is prescribed, I’m just finding it tricky to find a pharmacy that stock it in the UK.

[Doodlebug23]

Have you tried Stork?

[Yellow83 in reply to Doodlebug23]

Yes they were my first port of call, unfortunately they are a no. I’ve tried all the big fertility pharmacy’s, no luck. Thanks for the suggestion though xx

[river242 in reply to Yellow83]

I got it from Stork just a couple of months ago so I'd check that again. The prescription had to come to them from the clinic in Spain but got it no problem, x

[Yellow83 in reply to river242]

Thank you loads, did they just ask for granocyte or did they change the name? They are saying they don’t have it at the moment unfortunately xx

[river242 in reply to Yellow83]

Ah ok I understood that as they didn't do it at all, rather than a stock issue. Sorry, hope you manage to get some. x

[Doodlebug23]

oh 😢

[Tir-26]

Hi, I’ve had to take Granocyte after transfers. We didn’t have the option to source ourselves and we had to buy the entire script in Spain and take home after our transfer x

[sazzle2680]

My local pharmacist would special order it in for me. There are certain brands that are available only in Spain /EU and others that are more readily available in the UK. I think I got around this by getting the prescribing doctor to give a script for generic granocyte rather than a named brand which then allowed the pharmacy to search across their providers to see who had what and at what price.

[Yellow83 in reply to sazzle2680]

Thank you so much. Do you know what they called it in the generic script? X

[sazzle2680 in reply to Yellow83]

Hi, I think it was granulocyte-colony stimulating factor - filgrastim. This opened it up for the pharmacist to look at Accofil, Neupogen, Nivestim, and Zarzio. I usually ended up with Neupogen or Nivestim. They tended to be the cheapest.

[Yellow83 in reply to sazzle2680]

Amazing, thank you so much 😊

[Wishinandahopin]

hi there, I got Neupogen which is similar I believe from Fertility Medication Centre. It’s a G-CSF so perhaps ask whoever prescribed you if that could work. That’s normally what is prescribed for immune ivf in my understanding.

[Yellow83 in reply to Wishinandahopin]

Thank you so much, I’ll have a look into that xx

[Yellow83]

Thank you so much for all your help ladies you are super stars! Xxx