Compounding Medicine

Corn, the insidious beast it is, not only invades our food supply but also our medicine supply. I recently got a script for Amoxicillin(the common penicillin antibiotic) from the University doctors and went over to the CVS to get it filled only to have my suspicions fulfilled: they have corn in both the tablets and liquid solution; this was on top of the fact that purely corn-free antihistamine does not exist for some reason, so you'll actually need to get that compounded as well. However, since people working at CVS only have Bachelor's degrees and are what Nurses are to Doctors in a hospital, competent but not the one you want committing surgery upon you, you can't get your medicine there because they have no idea how. You have to go to a compounding pharmacist(which apparently used to be called a formulary, according to my parents), where the head Pharmacist has a doctorate degree. Not only that, you have to get your doctor to write the script specifically for it being compounded and being corn-free(do call the pharmacist to find out exactly what they want though, I'm sure it varies). The little tidbit of advice I have is to sort this all out as soon you can, preferably before you're coughing up half a lung like I was during this process because it's quite likely that your doctor has never written a script for a compounding pharmacist and that unless you happen to be lucky, the pharmacy is probably somewhat far from you. A nice introduction to this issue can be found at: Corn-Free Compounding
So by all means, good luck and take care of this early. Also, curse the corn-production industry on your way to the pharmacy.